I hear ya. Excellent chance I’ll be out of a job in a few weeks, and I have lottery tickets for this weekend.
My employer cut everyone’s salaries by 7.5% or more a few weeks ago, telling us this was to avoid layoffs. The layoffs started yesterday. The company is still making money, but they said they have to make the shareholders happy.
I have an “essential job” so still working 40 hour weeks and they are staggering the schedule so sometimes I work Saturdays.
My kids, my sister-in-law, my neighbor, shoot-maybe even the neighbor’s dog is collecting unemployment and are making more than me sitting at home with the $500 or $600+ dollars a week they are getting. And they ALL (maybe not the neighbor’s dog) only have part time jobs. My neighbor and sister-in-law both say they dread going back to work due to the loss of the extra income.
They all “should” be back to work by the end of the month. Not that certain people I know would try gaming the system and not go back to work when they can and continue to collect unemployment.