Ask most nurses!

Damn, that's right...

True. My sister works as a carer, and she called herself cannon fodder. I'm like you're an essential worker - you're so important! I tell her this while working from home....

so true!

I know someone who is a nurse, she says while people clapping for you is nice she would rather feel safe at work and have a pay rise, the later not dependant on the current health crisis either!

Agreed. Money where your mouth is folks: support hazard pay for essential workers.

Want to know where the $1200 figure comes from? It's a months wages at minimum wage.

This goes especially to the millionaires, billionaires, etc

I would love for the CEOs to be here exposing themselves with their essential workers. I wonder if wages would improve?

And Imagine Captain Chaos sitting on the stern tweeting : "If we are sinking why am I 150 feet above the see? Fake media. Not good. Enemy of the people. Immigrants are playing sad music. No one here plays sad music. Only they do. "

This is exactly what's happening to my mom! She works in a hospital and they keep changing policies. Somehow a nap policy got added and they recommend doctors and nurses to take a 20 minute nap during their shift. They said you could only have one mask until it got wet or destroyed so people started using homemade masks. Then they said take as many masks as you want. Then they banned cloth (homemade) masks. There have been a bunch of other policy changes too. Some have been good like for units dealing with coronavirus there are pay raises available. There have been so many policy changes and my mom is pretty stressed

I'm with Tinky winky, without beer and crisps, society would collapse

One of my real good friend's parents are both doctors. Both of them have made wills and other paperwork because they are entirely unsure if they are going to make it through this

My daughter works the front desk at a hotel in Texas. We closed a lot of things but our hotels and motels are not among them and she is considered an essential worker. I have been so worried about her and her husband and 10 month old daughter since the first reports of possible cases in Texas. In 2014 she donated a kidney to me and there's the baby. I need to see them so badly but she has put her foot down about that.

Hahahahaha, my favorite.

This is why unions are important. Here in Washington state Kroger (which also owns QFC, Fred Meyer's, and others) has refused to raise wages for essential workers. But the bus union has gotten better wages and requires passengers to wear masks.

Its not as fun as it seems. I've been working from home for a month now, it sucks and it's frustrating. As an auditor I have to rely on the people I'm auditing to upload stuff, otherwise, I have no work. Then my boss wants to know why I have no work. Then I have to call muktiple times a day asking when they're uploading work. I know it's not as bad as what other are going through but it still sucks.

Plot twist the rich looking guy isn’t the essential worker

you wont get away with this

"Essential". Call them exactly how their employers see them, expendable. You don't pay them enough so they have to risk their lives for minimum wage but hey at least in the uk we all clapped for them at the same time, maybe they can pay their bills with that.

What would people need to go in for in the 'once every two weeks' scenario? Genuinely curious.

We're looking at you Kroger.

They drive a Mercedes. They're getting paid. I've much more sympathy for minimum wage cashiers who have 100+ people standing in front of them every day.

I'm teaching remotely, and some of my students are essential. I'm doing everything I can to accommodate them.

Me

Many delivery drivers have increased targets for delivery numbers as people are ordering more and the companies attitudes are 'oh well, the roads are empty so you'll get round faster'. Don't think it's been made easier for them at all.

True

Not society, government.

he look sad:'(

HOW is this an "essential" job?!