My wife came home, got drunk.

"Deal Killer - Powered by Focus" (dealkiller-ii)
03/20/2020 at 21:13 • Filed to: None

She had to tell seven people that they are laid off indefinitely. This is not her job description. She’s the office manager for a small medical practice. Apparently massage therapists just have to get by with no income for the foreseeable future. Shits getting real scary.

DISCUSSION (23)

arl > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:21

Ugh, so sorry.

CB > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:23

Holy shit dude, I'm so sorry.

Slant6 > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:26

Sorry man. In the same boat. It's a shitty boat.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:28

Fuck. So sorry.

WRXforScience > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:31

Today was my Mom’s 64 th birthday, she’s an orthopedic nurse at an outpatient surgery center. Today was there last day to accept cases and she’s home for an indeterminate period of time, most likely burning her PTO then asked/told to take early retirement (she wanted to work another year or two before retiring to maximize retirement and for health insurance).

We’ll see how things go, I feel bad for her. She’s had a rough time of the last 10 or so years with breaking both wrists (badly) a couple of years apart, getting breast cancer (radiation treatment worked, she’s been cancer free for almost 7 years), and she broke her back on vacation about 9 years ago that started the whole cascade of unfortunate events. The long recovery times ever couple of years really did a number on her retirement plans and she’s work really hard for a very long time. She’ll be fine but she deserves to be better than fine.

Hopefully your wife feels better after a good weekend. Shit sucks for a lot of people right now; hopefully, it’ll get better quickly after it gets worse.

ranwhenparked > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:33

This is just going to keep getting worse

OPPOsaurus WRX > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:36

Give it a couple weeks, we’ll recover. The business next door to my office was a catering company to large events. They just got fucked hard. They laid off 95% of their company

OPPOsaurus WRX > WRXforScience
03/20/2020 at 21:37

My boss’s wife is a nurse. He said she comes home, cry's, then goes to bed so she can do it again tomorrow

DipodomysDeserti > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 21:40

My brother had his pay cut by 20%, they fired the PR person. My dad is in sales so he’s fucked. My wife and I still have jobs for now, but provide a premium service that can be had for free, so who knows what will happen.

Glad we can all run this rat race just to get shit on when a whole series of other people fuck up.

ranwhenparked > OPPOsaurus WRX
03/20/2020 at 22:19

I’d feel more inclined to believe that if anyone in authority was still making any such claims, instead of preparing us for an even longer, possibly permanent, shutdown

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/20/2020 at 22:25

Ugh. That’s rough.

I do wonder - when things eventually recover, will people blow money the same way they did before, or will they be a little wiser and pay down personal debt first?

CompactLuxuryFan > ranwhenparked
03/21/2020 at 01:23

Well, Wuhan is the furthest along in their timeline and they’re already reporting zero new infections. Taiwan also is only reporting new infections from infected people traveling in (no transmission within Taiwan). Once you reach that point and you have massive testing, contact tracing, and infected i ndividual isolation in place, you can pretty much go back to business as usual. The social impact becomes more akin to something like meningitis . I would think China and Taiwan are at worst a couple of months ahead of the US, so I think that’s the sort of timeline we’re looking at for the current kind of downturn.

Svend > BaconSandwich is tasty.
03/21/2020 at 01:58

No, they’ll never learn. They’ll still blow through it thinking it can’t or won’t happen again.

Svend > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/21/2020 at 02:02

Really sorry to hear that, it’s a lot of pressure for someone who shouldn’t have that pressure put on them. I hope your wife and those made-redundant are all okay and they catch a break.

SirDrivesAlot (now with hybrid powerrrr) > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
03/21/2020 at 02:23

I all too well understand what you wife is going through. Back in my retail days I had to do the same thing when sales were slow. Now I find myself on the other side....the agency I work for is hiring. Our mission is to prevent and end homelessness. Looks like we are going to be getting a lot of business. I took 3 calls from a guy today who is seriously freaked out - he has not been unemployed for 30 years , and now finds himself in that position and does not know what to do. All I could do is refer him to our intake people (I am HR, not programs / prevention) but I feel his panic. I feel this is only the beginning.

PS9 > Svend
03/21/2020 at 09:00

That’s not going to be an option. The reality of the crisis is going to be lasting economic damage to hundreds of millions - if not billions - of people. Mitigating ourselves back to normalcy requires an order-of-magnitude greater response and crisis management ability that simply isn’t there and won’t materialize immediately. Here in the US, we need to lock down things NOW. Not tomorrow, not in a week. The already slow to respond administration’s unwillingness to execute on this means they need to be pushed into it, but waiting for us to see 240k-500k infections per day means waiting until it is too late. The cost of trying to turn healthcare into a luxury good will be the complete collapse of the healthcare system in the united states, with the dramatic escalation of the already out-of-control disaster as a side dish.

The steps required to avoid this are not going to be taken. A government ready to do what is needed is a radical reorganization of priorities away, and that kind of thing needs at least one election cycle, which is too slow. The folks at the wheel now won’t want to turn the car away from the cliff until the feel the front wheels dip over the edge, and that means normalcy is not going to be forthcoming for many years.

Svend > PS9
03/21/2020 at 09:54

Unfortunately, those at the top in some countries are trying to protect themselves first and then seeing what happens with everything else.

Others really have no idea what to do, some are saying do this, some are saying do that, etc...

facw > WRXforScience
03/21/2020 at 11:45

Honestly, I think the health system is soon going to be looking for every nurse they can get, regardless of specialty. That’s not a good thing, but I don’t think your mom will have to retire unless she wants to.

facw > CompactLuxuryFan
03/21/2020 at 11:47

Agreed, assuming we can actually get our shit together. I think that that’s happening, but I can’t say I trust our leadership, especially after they’ve just spent the past two months or so in some combination of lies and blatant delusion.

ST80MND > CompactLuxuryFan
03/21/2020 at 11:51

Thats if you believe the reports. Keep in mind that the reports are coming from a government that has proven, historically, to not ever tell the truth.

I have seen leaked videos of hospitals in the Wuhan zone, and this is a looong way from being over. Also, when you see Chinese authorities welding apartment building doors shut from the outside to keep people in, well it don’t look pretty.

And to think about it critically, what pandemic outbreak just stops overnight? My opinion is this story of no new cases all of a sudden is pure bullshit.

WRXforScience > facw
03/21/2020 at 11:54

She’s in an increased risk group for getting Corvid-19, so working as a general nurse dealing with infected patients would be terrible for her. She’d have a 1 in 10 chance of needing to be hospitalized and a 1 in 20 chance of dying . Her odds could even be worse with her medical history, but in any event she needs to stay clear of this thing.

Retiring a year early is one thing, but hospitalization or death are another.

facw > WRXforScience
03/21/2020 at 12:40

Right, but people are still going to need car for stuff other than COVID-19, and having her available might free up less at risk nurse to deal with a COVID-19 patient. Still would be an increased risk, compared to staying home, but she doesn’t have to work with COVID-19 victims to make a difference, or for her skills to be useful.

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > OPPOsaurus WRX
03/21/2020 at 13:32

I would plan on 8 weeks of staying home. I would plan on 1 more wave in the future. I think the economic impact is hard to foretell.