Finally! Cardinal is going to do something right for it’s employees The plan is to bring all the employees back, for all 3 shifts and run what they can (not really much business) and shut down early every week so everyone can collect unemployment and get the extra $600 per week in COVID benefits. So basically, we’re going to work less, collect partial unemployment and get the $2400 per month from the government. Fuck yeah! “Hazard pay” ...
Got that appraisal today. Close to what I thought. $2300. not terrible but… Ya know. Unnecessary. Oh well.
I’m not usually one to use derogatory terms for any group. Period. But this isn’t an ordinary situation. So, Susie’s landlady rented out the apartment upstairs. She’s young, goth, pierced, and socially awkward. Great. Last Thursday, during our nightly call, the new tenant started blasting music. And not for the first time. Susie asked me what to do, and I told her to knock on the neighbor’s door and ask her to turn the “music” down. Before she could do that the girl upstairs yelled down through the floor “Shut the fuck up!”. And then things just got weird. ...
We don’t need no education. And that’s why schools are closed for the remainder of the school year. Now… What will they do about next year? Repeat the grade for all students? All students except seniors? Push everyone through? Time will tell. Until then, a few teachers are holding weekly virtual classrooms to keep the kids involved, and handing out packets for the kids to complete. Also some are giving silly, non-mandatory assignments to keep them connected and attentive. ...
TL;DR Nissan lost. On my way to my essential job this morning at 5:45 am, met a deer on the road. Kicker was, I was going in at 6 instead of 7 and could have avoided this whole fiasco. Pictures here.
So today I put up a ceiling fan with a light fixture for Susie’s parents. No biggie, it went well and I replaced their old dimmer switch with a new rocker switch. Cool. When I was finished I told Pete that it was done and he was busy watching Guv Wolf’s daily brief. He got up from his chair to tell me that the pandemic was created to ruin the economy because that’s the only thing “they” couldn’t take away from Trump, and they will use it to take away his re-election. ...
1 million people infected worldwide. 1,000,000. With an “M” It’s very sobering. It started on the other side of the world. You think, “Wow, sucks for them.” Now it’s here and killed almost 6,000 in the US alone. Scary shit, man.
It’s been a few days, but nothing has really been happening, besides massive increases in infections. Woot. Yesterday, on freaking April Fool’s Day, Wolf ordered the whole state to stay-at-home. #stayathome So what did Mason and I do? Went to Walmart. And what a shit-show. Some fine folks from Berwick were on hand to make the trip memorable. It was totally People Of Walmart yesterday. They had the entrance and exit separated by a line of carts, and caution tape to keep people from mingling. And the masses were upset to be told to keep their social distance. Truly a sight to behold. ...
So as all Cardinal Wilkes-Barre employees learned on Friday, our illustrious Plant Manager values money over employee health and wellness. We can watch the number of infected people rise alarmingly everyday, and see that he remains unconcerned, calling this pandemic “No Big Deal!” We received hard copies today, of a letter to inform PSP that we are, in fact, allowed to work during the shutdown. The fucks! So today I wore an N95 mask all day, and gloved up for every call I answered. ...
Got the call from Giant today, went for an interview, got hired, and literally as I was walking in the door got a call from Dave saying the plant is open. I’m going into work tomorrow.