2020-06-19

theladysnarkydame: Rain falling from green leaves (Rain)
2020-06-19 10:33 am

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 I'm going back to work on Tuesday - in some capacity at least.  Reduced hours (for both me and the store itself).  Reduced responsibilities - the store isn't doing buys for another week at least, and then only by appointment and with limited amounts allowed  -- because we won't be fully staffed, still.  Masks are required ( I may need to add a nose wire to mine - my glasses get foggy, which is fine for a grocery run, but less so for a 7 hour shift), and there's apparently plastic shields up by the cashier stations now.

I have mixed feelings, to be sure.  I can't stay on unemployment forever (mostly, the extra Covid funds will likely run out next month, meaning that while for now I actually get more income unemployed than I did working, that will no longer be the case, even with reduced hours) but I have very much enjoyed spending time at home, with my husband.  My cat gets his insulin shots at a steady schedule, because I'm here to make sure of that.  We spent SO MUCH LESS money on gas.  But I do enjoy my job, and I miss the people there.  

Still, if I thought that anybody (ANYBODY) other than fast food joints and home improvement stores were hiring right now I might tell my boss that I decline, and stay on unemployment while the extra funds last, and then find something else.  Something that isn't retail.  Something that maybe I could do from home.

I have suspicions that lockdowns and quarantines will need to be reinstated at some point, seeing as how the virus isn't gone, there's no vaccine, and people, as a whole, are apparently really stupid about how viruses are transmitted - everybody's trying to get things "back to normal" when really, should they?  Shouldn't we have realized the dangers and frailties inherent in the current system and started going in different, healthier (physically, emotionally, mentally), directions?

But hey.  I'm going back to work on Tuesday.

Yay.