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I quit my job before the pandemic started, and ffs, the pandemic didn't help with finding a new one.

Took nearly a year.

Worked from home since then

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My hours were cut/impacted, but I was never outright let go/laid off/furloughed
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I lost the job I had and haven't been able to get/haven't gotten a job since

My job was never the same. Contracts that went away due to too much human contact never returned because those companies built the infrastructure necessary to handle everything in house. Along with other factors, I lost a lot of hope and havent been right since. Right now I just do odd jobs.

I work at government, back then in office hours were reduced and only one third of the staff were ordered to attend, the rest worked from home, and the in office staff was expected to finish their shift from home as well.

I liked it though

I was retired.

No, just my parents. 22 days apart.

Nope. Business as usually for me.

No, but I did use the time to work towards finding a different job

Kept my job (college professor) but how we did EVERYTHING changed for about 3 semesters.

Fucking SUCKED

I got furloughed for like a month but then our contract manager quit and I got brought back because I was the only one who had experience with our contract system. The other furloughed people were out for around another month and a half to two months. I know it was uncertain times and it was better to know your job was safe but honestly, unemployment was paying more than I was making at the time thanks to all of the extra stuff they were adding.

My car died in march 2020. I could've stayed on and paid to get it repaired, but my boss was fine with letting me go so i could file for the unemployment benefits instead. I was delivering pizza, so a car was necessary. I was able to stretch my finances to take a little over four years off. Only recently got a new job working at a grocery store.

didn't have a job at the time but it made it way harder to find a master thesis topic

The only impact the pandemic had on my job was it opened the door to 100% telework.

To this day, I'm still telework.

No. I took the opportunity to make the job a 100% remote one by moving out of state, but they have kept me on ever since.

No, the entire company permanently went to work from home. It was intended to be for only three months in early 2020, but most people stayed home for most contracts.

Kept my job but we switched to WFH. Some critical people were required to come in but they aimed to keep the building only 20% full.

nope. i can see my job duties divvied out to people they prefer to keep someday, but it hasn't happened yet. my boss does seem to like me a lot, tho, so i'm probably safe for a good while.

I got paid to stay home for a few months doing nothing. It was great.

We had the Cares Act thankfully.

I made more money during Covid than at any other point in my career. I think I was working 60+ hour weeks for almost a year. Almost burned out but I was able to fatten up my savings and buy a couple new toys.

Started working from home since March 2020

The exact opposite. I became even more essential to the point that I worked for free.

I kept my job and even ended up working more hours then usual... I'm a night grocery stocker and our loads became massive as everyone bought up whatever they could in short amount of time we'd be open during the day...

I even went from part-time to full-time during the pandemic...

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The exact opposite. I became even more essential to the point that I worked for free.

A moderator working for free? Unheard of.

I went from being in the office five days a week to remoting in from home every day. My actual job didn't change at all.

I was one of the first employees who were allowed to work from home, and haven't been required to go back since thankfully.

However work absolutely sucked ass for pretty much a solid year with the number of extra calls for all the extra people being home constantly. Could never keep up with the increased call demand.

I worked for a company delivering hospice equipment from 2015 to early 2020, often to nursing homes. I'm severely asthmatic, so the prospect of going into covid hotbeds multiple times a day was terrifying. I voluntarily self-isolated starting in late March, and by May my employer insisted I return to work or they would terminate me. I despised my employer for several reasons, so I took the opportunity to quit. Unemployment agreed that I had just cause and I continued collecting benefits until they ran out whenever that year, I think late July. I was collecting more than I made working full time + 10 hours overtime/week, anyway. I put so much money in the bank lol. Never did catch covid, either.

Nothing changed for me.

Do to it? No. I kept my store open 2 months after my friend died. It was clear I wouldn't survive keeping it open. With Covid no one was interested in owning a partnership in a business.

No, but part of me wishes I was immuno compromised back then rather than 2 years later. We had a guy working for us at Wal-Mart who was immuno-compromised. He was able to get 12 months off of work at the start of the pandemic, and get paid MORE than he was getting paid while working, yet we had to work our full schedules to barely make bills.

To go along with that, Wal-Mart gave everyone a "Loyalty Bonus" of 400 dollars at the end of the Pandemic. While this sounds nice, they planned it so that it would be distributed 2 weeks before the Pandemic bonus from the government of nearly 3,000 dollars. But because it looked like we were already getting a bonus from Wal-Mart, every single person at my store was not qualified for the government bonus.

Worked at a grocery store during the pandemic, so we were an essential business. Only really had to wear masks and such.

I worked at a casino that closed for about two months. They called me back, so no big deal.

on the other hand, my work bestie wasn't able to come back, because they wanted to force her to work graveyard shift even though they knew she is a single mom. I don't know what the deal with that was, unless they just wanted to be rid of her without actually firing her.

We were fully remote for several months and the services my organization provides had to be completely improvised as all of our physical locations were closed. It didn't affect me that radically other than introducing remote working, which I had not been able to do before, and without physical infrastructure to support I didn't have much to do.

My organization's official policy now is maximum 50% remote, so I do that two days a week. In some aspects I have never really gone back to work.

My job wasnt impacted in any way. Everything stayed the same and I worked like normal. I work at a power plant. It doesnt matter what is going on if its a normally scheduled work day you work. People still use electricity no matter what.

My life itself wasnt really impacted by Covid in any meaningful way. I had to wear a mask to the grocery store for a few months. That was it. Thats the only impact to my life that happened.

I had quit my job and bought a new car the week before the world exploded. My second day at my new job was the day everything shut down, and they fired me and the other person they hired.

I ended up getting a ton of unemployment and they eventually called me and hired me again three or four months later.

it was scary for a second but it all worked out

I was furloughed from mine after a while when they went from 3 shifts down to 2 and after that I was laid off because they didn't bring the night shift back and didn't have room for any more people on first 2 shifts.

Nope. Specifically considered essential by the DoD for contract work.

I had to work more, to the point that during the holidays we'd start two hours early and ended later for weeks on end.

I do newspaper deliveries late at night to all the gas stations/corner stores/grocery stores etc. in my area.

My job got noticibely better by the pandemic, because all of the stores started opening and closing at weird hours and nobody wanted us to go in the stores if we could avoid it, so half my route just became tossing bundles out my window at mostly closed stores.

It was pretty sweet.

I've been working from home since the lockdowns started.

I've been working from home for nearly 10 years and way before it was "cool" and my company was considered "essential" but no one got "hazard" pay so we all just went on with life pretty much like normal.

I work for a hospital, so my job was safe. Especially, since it was my task to organize the billing process of all the covid testings. I had a high workload and a lot of responsibility at that time.

I was furloughed for a while

Reverse. I worked more during the pandemic. I had my hours cut until I left for different jobs.

I was furloughed since I work in the limo industry and we had no business due to all the shutdowns

I sat on unemployment for a while and stayed with my daughter then I had a couple of different jobs while waiting for my industry to open up again

then I went back

Not because of the pandemic.. I lost two jobs back to back for personal reasons.

I got more job security and worked more and they paid me _triple_ for nights and weekends.

i wasnt let go, i was really grateful for that.