Replies

Let me tell you about ‘we.’

My brother works for a large hospital corporation in Michigan. They extended an ‘opportunity’ to all employees, clinical/administrative/support/maintenance/etc. to take a 90-day unpaid furlough with benefits at the end of which there is no guarantee that they would be brought back.

In his group (IT with ~100 employees), 3 people took the deal, including him. I think the number hospital-wide was in the same range, percentage-wise. Managers are ALL taking a 40% pay cut across the board. They’re hemorrhaging money up there - and I don’t think the situation differs elsewhere.

Like a true socialist, these a$$-hats think money grows on trees (or more pointedly, thinks it’s okay to ‘spend all you want; we’ll print more.’ Pisses me off, it does, especially since my brother was one of the 3 that opted to take the deal.

Since they didn’t get nearly enough ‘volunteers,’ there will be large layoffs yet this week, and none of those people (the ones who didn’t take advantage of the ‘opportunity’) will be laid off with no benefits at all. Sucks to be him; sucks worse to be them.

I don’t know what the answer was/is to this pandemic. Overreact? Just right? Not enough? I don’t know. All I know is that lots of people are going to be out of work for an extended period of time, and I fear that our Socialist overlords will use this to push us right over the brink.