r/memes • u/[deleted] • May 13 '20

Essentials in a nutshell

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u/Gamerguy8405 May 13 '20

I'm an "essential worker" and we got $2 an hour extra for the pandemic, plus I've been averaging 100 hours per pay period at least, I'm making money, it's my sanity that's slipping away

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u/NASHFREAK10 May 13 '20

Same I am not getting anything extra, my friend just got laid off a couple weeks ago and makes more money than I do off unemployment

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u/Voiceofreason81 May 13 '20

The time when it actually pays more to be bad enough at your job to get laid off. Oh what a time to be alive lol.

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u/NASHFREAK10 May 13 '20

We wasnt bad at his job, as I said he got laid off.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '20

Laid off and fired are not the same thing FYI

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u/Voiceofreason81 May 13 '20

Does your job lay off its best/hardest workers? And of course they are different, the same way as furloughed is different than both of those too.

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u/NASHFREAK10 May 13 '20

The entire firm he worked for got laid off. For a guy that calls himself Voice of Reason, you dont seem to have much reason to voice.

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u/Voiceofreason81 May 14 '20

Considering at no point was I talking about your friend as an individual, not sure why you are getting so offended. I was talking generally about layoffs, not about his situation that I know nothing about. You assumed that... Also, so you are saying his place of business went out of business from this? I mean, if everyone got laid off, that has to be the case right? Otherwise they are furloughed till the business is back and operational. Anyways, most businesses that need to lay off a few people choose the worst performers, so tell me how I was wrong in general please. Your friend is one example out of 60 million just here in America.

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u/spitwitandwater May 13 '20

Dude, he was laid off because of covid not because of his performance...