Zombie The Coronavirus Financial Thread (Personal, Local, National)

I refused to do anything unethical at my workplaces. Fortunately I only had to refuse to do something on one occasion and that was at Boeing and it was at the direction of my lead engineer who said he would deny it if I ever complained about it. I never spoke to that son-of-a-bitch again. Otherwise, I found Boeing to be squeaky clean. My boss and his boss were using me to cheat our customer, the U.S. Army unbeknownst to me. I left the company before i found out and I later learned they both got fired and lost all their benefits for it. I wish that would have happened to the ass hole at Boeing. I ran into lots of ass holes at Boeing but only the one who cheated out and out although there was another manager who toyed with cheating. I complained about him but nothing ever came of it. Perhaps I should have taken it higher but he did report to a Division President at Boeing and so had some big guns on his side. Still, one of the biggest ass holes I ever met in the corporate world.

Bottom line, take my advice and never get into anything even borderline unethical. A professional should make this priority one.

 

Get the fuck out and tell them I told you so.

 

It's like I had a twin.

 

So, there is a difference. It's virtually impossible to find anyone exactly as despicable as Trump.

 

Been laid off since mid May. FINALLY got a call in to someone that sounds like could actually help with getting unemployment started up for me. Not gonna hold my breath on it. At least some of my old co-workers finally started getting paid after 3.5 months of nothing.

 

Oregon

 

Most restaurants are not corporations on the nasdaq or Dow. Only your larger chains. So most aren't represented in market ups and downs.

 

How do you change a flat tire while rolling down the road?

In other words, how can we find solutions to keep small businesses open while successfully fighting the coronavirus at the same time? Are these calls going to continually be made at the state/city levels?

 

First off, I sincerely hope you are able to get caught up. That sounds like it would be incredibly rough. I wish you the best going forward.
Secondly, if you're looking for something and live in the Portland area the place I work for has a bunch of openings send me a private message if your interested, they've got positions from engineering to management to production. This might be the best part for you, even if you were hired you probably wouldn't ever have to see me because I'm typically off in the engineer corner typing vigorously on code editors or s2, and I don't leave my hovel very often.
Definitely most importantly hope things get better for you going forward sorry to hear that you haven't been able to collect your unemployment benefits.

 

It's shit like this that make me question why socialism, universal healthcare, and liveable minimum wage, etc etc etc become such triggers for the right. I said it months ago, the true economic effects of the pandemic aren't going to be realized until next year. Basic human necessities will be tough to come by. And yet we want to push this pseudo capitalism down people's throats.

How is it a true capitalistic society when organizations and large businesses get bailed out all the time? Yet another hypocrisy that the GOP and its sheep try to peddle.

 

Its gonna take a hybrid. Capitalism kept sustainable with small sects of socialist programs. Socialism would not be able to sustain itself without the like.

Curious. Set up all these socialist programs requiring massive amount of funding(supplied by the rich) And then when the rich run out of money in 50-100 year,s how is the government going to sustain these programs without having this country dive into complete chaos with breadlines and famine?

Its been tried before and massively failed. i'm sure you know this.


What I see is limited government and freedoms are triggers for socialists. There is another side to the coin. Another viewing angle than what you see. I hope you become aware of this.

 

Thank you. Super generous of you to offer with sincerity. I'm doing alright. I've always wanted to retire by 40, so for now that's what I'm going to pretend. For my family, its more important for now that I'm home, helping my daughter through the virtual schooling process. I'm fortunate enough to have that privilege.

 

I call AAA.

 

Denial

 

Happened to me thanks to @SlyPokerDog . He pointed me in the right direction for help and it worked. Can't thank him enough. 23 unemployment checks showing up at once was nice. Unfortunately, now my work is over again this week and I will have to get in the back of the line.