I'll buy some merch to help out, Porky!
I'll buy some merch to help out, Porky!
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
DemonGeminiX (03-25-2020), lost in melb. (03-25-2020), Teh One Who Knocks (03-25-2020)
I have mine..
Thanks guys. I'll take some pics of shirts and glasses and make a thread.
Well, in the last week and a half, new incoming work has pretty much dropped off to nothing. The lockdowns aren't causing us to close, but the lack of work from the virus affecting our customers just might.
Sorry to hear that, Bud..
KevinD (03-26-2020), PorkChopSandwiches (03-26-2020), RBP (03-25-2020)
Goofy (03-27-2020), KevinD (03-27-2020), lost in melb. (03-25-2020), RBP (03-25-2020)
I am thankfully OK, as opposed to a few friends of mine. One friend has an art business and accepts donations so I gave a little extra. If we all did a little of that, maybe we'll all come through this.
My contract is with the local health authorities shuffling around computer assets electronically, and as you could gather, that is happening in a major way. In our section, 3 people out of 11 are retiring at the end of the month, so we are all scrambling and and are going to be busier than ever. I will be Sr. dude come April 1 so that will be exciting. I didn't spend a lot of time on here before...even less upcoming potentially. But I'm absolutely NOT complaining.
My wife sells car and travel insurance, and a lot of it can be done online - hastily made happen so there's many problems. She says what once took 15 minutes sometimes takes 2 hours. She worked her (hopefully) last day at the office yesterday -- they were opening the doors to clients as late as Friday, when the firm's Twitter feed said they were going to stop that on Wednesday. If I hadn't pressed the issue they still would be opening the door.
We have a thing on a health website that is a self-eval and if you have enough symptoms, you should remain in place - by order of our health authority. My wife last night was coughing and has a sore throat, which could be allergies, could be anything really, but her firm says stay home. So she will remain here for about 10 days. She has about 20 sick days and there are courses she can do online for her job, so we are very fortunate.
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DemonGeminiX (03-25-2020), Goofy (03-27-2020), KevinD (03-27-2020), lost in melb. (03-25-2020), RBP (03-25-2020)
lost in melb. (03-26-2020)
Now that I'm back at work, have some updates. Our salaried employees have had pay cuts. +80k have lost 10%, -80k lost 5%. All of us ( I'm hourly paid) have lost our 401k and stock matching. As of today, our decision (west texas) rig fleet will be reduced by about 35% by end of April. 8 rigs will no longer be working out of 32 total. This of course is just as of now. It will go down more. The last bad downturn, we were down to 6 rigs drilling. I was one of the fortunate few that was not laid off. I can only hope I make it this go around. There are 6 of us in my department, I'm probably the #2 or 3 guy.
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Godfather (03-26-2020), Goofy (03-27-2020), lost in melb. (03-26-2020), Noilly Pratt (03-26-2020), Pony (03-26-2020), RBP (03-26-2020), Teh One Who Knocks (03-26-2020)
That's rough, Kev. You're hit by three things right now, aren't you ( factoring in oil prices)
Wow, I'm just looking at the staggering unemployment numbers coming up in Australia.
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KevinD (03-26-2020)