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One month of Hell...  

William61114 54M
42 posts
4/25/2020 11:41 am
One month of Hell...

Well.

This plague has been interesting and we all have suffered. I hear stories every day. The news is full of them. The internet gives us way, WAY more information that we want or need.

No offence to anyone else is meant but this plague will probably kill me even if I don't get sic

One month ago I was employed. Then my job furloughed . A furlough is kind of like being laid off, but still employed. I wasn't happy about it, but I understood it.

At that point I had been working from home for weeks. Then I wasn't working.

2 weeks after I was furloughed, they had let go. It wasn't a seniority thing or a knock on the quality of my wor... The entire industry (aerospace) dropped out.

Nobody was flying. No surprise there. And with nobody flying, there was no need for anything that supported aerospace.

Now before I sound truly pathetic I have say that I understand the decision fully. My employer even said that they'd be happy have back if things ever pick up again. And that's a lot more than a lot of people are getting because of this plague.

But I'm unemployed.

2019 was the worst year in my life. I was downsized in February that year. The corporation slashed an entire shift off of the plant where I was working. 1/3 of the entire workforce for that plant... around 00 people.

The jobs market in my city really couldn't handle that kind of glut. And "supposedly" unemployment was getting better and better by then.

But it really wasn't. And I was unemployed until August. And I almost didn't survive it.

Unemployment was running out. Cards maxed. Savings gone. Depression was really, REALLY high.

I thought that I was worthless.

I was literally saying on many occasions that the best thing that I could do for everybody else was die.

Then I got a job in August. As a temp. Making that I would have made right out of<b> college </font></b>doing something that really wasn't stimulating my brain at all.

I hated that job, but it let me some bills.

Then they fired me 5 days after my birthday.

All they told my contract holder was that it was for "performance". Funny... I was one of the best performers AND I had modified the tools that we were using to be better and more efficient.

They never even told me or my contract holder what the problem was.

Even worse, they kept the few personals that I had left there. Contract holder wasn't any help, either. So to Hell with both of them.

I had already cancelled my birthday for that year. I didn't get another job until about 2 months later. Which means that I had to cancel Christmas, too.

But my new job... I love my new job. Wasn't wild about the industry, but I loved the job.

Then the plague came.

Now it's been one month of Hell.

Not working. Not socializing. No stimulation.

Honestly, despite the face that many people see here, I'm not expecting to survive this year.

William61114 54M

4/25/2020 11:42 am

 Comments are welcome as always. But please... Be gentle. This one hurt.


Paulxx001 67M
22642 posts
4/25/2020 2:41 pm

 I understand where you're coming from.
It's fucked up...
.. to say the least.
Good luck is lame - but, that's all I have.


William61114 54M

4/25/2020 3:44 pm

 Thanks. I appreciate it.


William61114 54M

4/26/2020 7:14 am

 Thank you


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