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Yeah, I don’t know a single person that didn’t work.
by dd36 4y ago
Yeah, I don’t know a single person that didn’t work.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoA friend worked for Royal Caribbean in their entertainment division onboard. No work, no unemployment, a bit of stimulus, and had to crash at one of my homes so they weren’t homeless. Because no one rents to you when you have no assets and volatile income during a pandemic. Exhausted their emergency savings and modest retirement account. This is one of many of my associates in the service industry that had substantial employment challenges.
- takeda 4y agoHow came no unemployment? If you had regular job, you were eligible for unemployment there was also PUP enabled due to pandemic, so if you were self employed you could request unemployment under that. In addition there were also short periods of time where you could get extra $600/week (as it is impossible to survive for long on the usual unemployment amount)
- shagie 4y agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-line-crew-workers-lose-salaries-benefits-over-coronavirus-2020-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-line-crew-workers-los... They tend to work as contractors on a limited term contract and international maritime labor laws are unlikely to require it. Note also the country of registry for the ships may have more lax labor laws too. (edit) The only instance of unemployment being mentioned in international maritime labor laws I've found is https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:91:0::NO::P91_SECTION:MLCA_AMEND_A2 https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:91:0::NO::... > Regulation 2.6 – Seafarer compensation for the ship’s loss or foundering > Purpose: To ensure that seafarers are compensated when a ship is lost or has foundered > 1. Seafarers are entitled to adequate compensation in the case of injury, loss or unemployment arising from the ship’s loss or foundering. This very specifically deals with ships sinking. Not "ok, no work everyone off." A delicate balance: The seafarers’ employment agreement, the system of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and the role of flag States - https://hal.science/hal-01470314/document https://hal.science/hal-01470314/document also touches on unemployment (there's a single mention of it).
- CydeWeys 4y agoRoyal Caribbean's ships are flagged and run out of Nassau. I doubt US labor laws are relevant here.
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- takeda 4y agoI know two that previously worked as waitresses, and were let go immediately once emergency was declared. Fortunately for them they used the time and money from unemployment to return to school and will be soon graduate with much better careers.
- jandrewrogers 4y agoI am close to several people that were unemployed for at least 18 months due to COVID policy erasing their jobs.
- spatley 4y agoYeah, we need to stop talking about the pandemic experience like it affected people in any way similarily. Tech worked their fingers to the bone— 50 hour weeks and isolatng heads down grind. Everyone made money but it crushed their souls. Hospitality and entertainment stayed home and starved. Essential workers went in every day under crushing conditions, fear and literal death. We were all subject to one master. But under a different punishment.
- WeylandYutani 4y agoAmerica is not "the West". Everyone kept their pay check in my country.
- School-Cotton 4y ago> Tech worked their fingers to the bone— 50 hour weeks and isolatng heads down grind. This may have been your experience but it was nowhere near mine. I think talking about “tech” as a whole is generalizing too broadly.
- IAmGraydon 4y agoHilarious to think that 50 hour weeks is working your fingers to the bone.
- bryanrasmussen 4y ago10 hours over the default American work week does seem a bit much.