The problem is that people realised how important it is to be able to do things like that and still bristle at the idea to pay essential workers better while reducing their hours. All those 'low skill' jobs are still essential and still earn a ton of money for the companies, but somehow people still claim that the company deserves that money more than the workers who earned it because their labour is 'unskilled'. It's ridiculous. People should be paid accordingly and in relation to the worth their work generates and in relation to how much we need that work to be done. Wanting to pay for skills only is nothing but the excuse to fatten the bank accounts of the execs. And the quarantine has made that painfully obvious. That's why essential workers hate the upper class.

As an essential worker I assure you I don't hate you guys for this. I wish life was like that in general, minus the disease and death and financial losses ofcourse. May be the world needs to slow down and be content with what it has . May be I will see less disease at my hospital ,if that happened

I worked. I have a rough spot on the bridge of my nose still to this day from wearing basks 12/hr night shifts in the hospital. Other than loving the lack of traffic, I never got any stay at home, no stimulus checks, just pay to keep working.

Hey that's not true. We didn't care what you got up to as long as it kept you indoors and away from the places we really needed to get in and out of quickly. I was in health and social care and I enjoyed the empty streets.

Now we hate the .05% who brag about working from home when the rest of us have jobs where that would never be possible.

As an essential worker I prayed to get covid so I could have the two weeks off. I've never gotten it. I didn't miss one day of work through the whole of the pandemic. I do wish you people would stay home and stop talking to me though. I miss the light traffic and the ability to cough and scare people away from me.

I was an essential worker (fire/flood/property restoration) in Alberta Canada. Everyone on govt support earned about 30% more than me sitting home while I had to deal with going into peoples' homes. Almost every single client refused to wear a mask cause it was their home. I really resented being forced to work under those conditions

I worked for basically the whole thing and I still can appreciate what the tweet is saying. I mean even if you worked, you were still on quarantine when you finished and wasn't a lot of socializing activities going on. So what did you spend that time doing? I learned how to code and garden.

Hated would imply we stopped.

As an essential worker, I feel that.

tweets like this are why I gained 15 pounds during COVID in spite of walking 5K everyday while avoiding other people.

Their hate is misplaced.

I didn't hate you (Fire/EMS Dispatcher).....I am just glad you appreciated it!

I am simultaneously watching a show on serial killers and reading this...and I read this as "sexual workers". 😳😂

TRUTH!!!!!

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The horror of a parent having to take care of their children all day long.

Why is this downvoted?

I loved quarantine. I got lot's of overtime at work. Bought a fishing boat with added income. Wearing masks and not going anywhere meant me and my wife just watched movies at home. Things were better back then. For me and the Mrs. At least. I know not for everyone.