re: Anybody else gotten laid off?

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Seriously, what’s the name of your shop? Do you sell online and ship? I’m always on the lookout for some good vinyl records.

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Same here

always looking for vinyl.

As a nurse let me say that is horsecrap. You have no idea how much easier our jobs are when secondary personnel do their jobs well. It sucks when craps broken, I can’t get help cleaning patients, takes two hours to get medicines because there are t enough pharmacist. Our job is hard enough without having to Jerry rig stuff.

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Anybody else gotten laid off?

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Millions of Americans have been laid off work so far and there'll be millions more.

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It's always interesting to explain the concept of "laid off" to non-Americans, as it's simply an illegal concept in much of the world. Outside the US (usually), if the employee is not needed, they must be terminated without cause and paid full severance. Explaining a company "laying off" employees makes folks from other countries quickly gasp, "What the frick? How is that legal?"

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Yep, much of the western world, especially Europe works with contracts at nearly every level of employment since nearly all jobs come with loads of government required benefits. Which is why it's so flippin hard for European youths to find good work and benefit cutting can cause riots, considering how hard those employed worked for those contracts.

Meanwhile in America, with practically 0 required benefits at the lowest levels, pretty much anyone can get a job as the employer can lay off or fire bad employees at will.