r/jobs • u/Whole_Relief8299 • 3d ago

Layoffs Just got laid off via text

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I’ve been crying so much over this. I genuinely can’t believe how heartless some people can be…

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u/Freedom_by_vanlife94 2d ago

I made more on unemployment during covid than I've ever made from working. It was a paid vacation for like a year and it was awesome.

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u/Suavecore_ 2d ago

Everyone getting the Covid payment, even before their own unemployment income, was already making more than me while I managed a gas station during that time. I had a friend who had the audacity to complain he was bored while making more than double what I made while working. What a time to have a "non-essential" job..

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u/Bodees1979 2d ago

This is what has always bothered me. I worked two "essential" jobs during covid and would have made more money on unemployment still. I am still mad that they never made it up to those of us who worked through all of it. I had no issue at the time since I think a lot of people would have been homeless and stuff without the extra money. But why couldn't they try to do anything for us in the future? Better interest rates on homes and cars and loans in general? Given us tax breaks on a lot of things in years to come? Instead we kept everything going and got completely sh*t on for it. So we could struggle while we watched most of the world have an extended vacation.

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u/SeaworthinessHot2770 1d ago

I agree! My daughter worked through Covid at a grocery store. I worked through it as a hospital secretary. Neither one of us made big wages. There was talk at one point essential workers would get extra compensation. Of course nothing came of that. We all worked stressed and scared we were going to die from Covid.