How are you all staying home?

[Anonymous]

Easy for me to stay home. The whole company is on furlough and the office is locked.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are both teachers. Not that it doesn’t impact us financially. If school reopens during the summer, we’ll lose much needed income from summer jobs.

But right now you're both getting paid not to work. With a GUARANTEED income, I'd say you come out ahead of a lot of us.

I’m sure our landlord will find that comforting in August when we tell him that the rent got paid in March so he’s ahead of the rest of y’all.

To PP, I’m sure it is hard when you count on that July and August extra income. I’m self- employed but have a large client with a committed amount of hours and another for a small amount a few times of year. So, like your summer $ it’s a bit extra and I always have something to put it towards.

But here is what I don’t understand about teachers ( some not all) when they say in person or online that “ we don’t get paid in the summer.” But aren’t you a salaried employee? So if you make 45k a year that is your salary. Why does it matter if it’s 9, 10, or 12 months? The 45k would still be used for a 12 month budget? What am I missing?

I ask sincerely because like I said I am self- employed and have always had to bill monthly and also know that december and August have very little work so I look at my yearly income and plan budget to cover all months.

A yearly salary is a yearly salary no matter what increments you choose to receive. That’s how I look at it.

I used to be self-employed. When I needed more money, I worked more —sometimes twice as much or I changed venders to reduce costs. If you are a salaried employee, you could double your hours and it still won’t increase your income.

As a result, when teachers have increased expenses, they have to work additional jobs. A large percentage of teachers are tutoring, working retail, Ubering, and babysitting so they can afford to teach.

Agree but that is true of any salaried employee with increased expenses. I was simply referring to not getting paid in summer when pp mentioned her August rent. I was thinking a good plan of mine is too use the amount I know I’ll get yearly and divide by 12. That way she’s not matter if it is paid out 6/9/12 month increments.

At any rate, a tough time for all for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I are both teachers. Not that it doesn’t impact us financially. If school reopens during the summer, we’ll lose much needed income from summer jobs.

But right now you're both getting paid not to work. With a GUARANTEED income, I'd say you come out ahead of a lot of us.

I’m sure our landlord will find that comforting in August when we tell him that the rent got paid in March so he’s ahead of the rest of y’all.

To PP, I’m sure it is hard when you count on that July and August extra income. I’m self- employed but have a large client with a committed amount of hours and another for a small amount a few times of year. So, like your summer $ it’s a bit extra and I always have something to put it towards.

But here is what I don’t understand about teachers ( some not all) when they say in person or online that “ we don’t get paid in the summer.” But aren’t you a salaried employee? So if you make 45k a year that is your salary. Why does it matter if it’s 9, 10, or 12 months? The 45k would still be used for a 12 month budget? What am I missing?

I ask sincerely because like I said I am self- employed and have always had to bill monthly and also know that december and August have very little work so I look at my yearly income and plan budget to cover all months.

A yearly salary is a yearly salary no matter what increments you choose to receive. That’s how I look at it.

I used to be self-employed. When I needed more money, I worked more —sometimes twice as much or I changed venders to reduce costs. If you are a salaried employee, you could double your hours and it still won’t increase your income.

As a result, when teachers have increased expenses, they have to work additional jobs. A large percentage of teachers are tutoring, working retail, Ubering, and babysitting so they can afford to teach.

Agree but that is true of any salaried employee with increased expenses. I was simply referring to not getting paid in summer when pp mentioned her August rent. I was thinking a good plan of mine is too use the amount I know I’ll get yearly and divide by 12. That way she’s not matter if it is paid out 6/9/12 month increments.

At any rate, a tough time for all for sure.

But if your yearly salary doesn’t meet your expenses in this high COLA, it doesn’t matter if you divide it by 6/9/12. You will still need to earn more money. Summer is when many teachers earn more money. Why be angry at teachers who were responsible enough to secure summer employment? Do you feel they should not have children of their own because of the slimmest chance that school would close for weeks due to a pandemic of a new disease? I say feel because you clearly aren’t thinking.

[Anonymous]

I don't think school districts have the budget to pay teachers to work in the summer and they aren't going to force them to work with no pay.

[Anonymous]

My office is on mandatory telework until 4/14. After that, I don't know what will happen since my child is now home until at least late June. Oy. I'm lucky in that my income is relatively unaffected, that I have a coparent who is relatively supportive and that my child is at an age to be somewhat self-sufficient. (though deeply sad about all the things she's missing now that school is done for the year.)

I'm an extrovert who works out daily (including near-daily gym visits) and has an active social life and volunteers for a bunch of kid activities. So my world has done a complete 180 in the last week and I'm struggling with that.

[Anonymous]

I'm teleworking and my wife is an essential employee so she has to go to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We both lost our jobs.

What jobs did you guys have.

[Anonymous]

We are both working from home. DH's company allowed it once schools closed because lots of the employees have kids. It has been working well so the company seems fine with the idea of him continuing to work at home until school or camps are open again.

My company is allowing people to work at home only because there are two pending COVID tests in the building. If those come back negative the building will reopen and people will need to return to the office. If they come back negative everyone stays home for the rest of two weeks and then they will revisit.

[Anonymous]

My office is encouraging everyone to work from home. IT has been incredibly busy getting everyone set up.

What are you doing, OP, that you are still going in to work?

[Anonymous]

under quarantine. I'm working from home. DH's company is paying him not to work for 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Our office has been closed for two weeks, DH's has been closed for 2.5 weeks. We are both able to telework.

[Anonymous]

DH and I are on WFH. Kids are 12 and 16 so that helps with being able to actually get work done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think school districts have the budget to pay teachers to work in the summer and they aren't going to force them to work with no pay.

Traditional, when the school year has been extended by a few days due to inclement weather closings, districts have considered that teachers were already paid for those days.

Scenario: school was closed 2/4-8 and 2/11-15. Teachers were paid for 10 days. There were 4 snow days that could be used. The school year is extended by 6 days. Teachers are not paid for those six additional days. Doesn’t sound bad, but imagine that you were a teacher who planned to work those six days at a camp or bar or Bed, Bath, and Beyond. You are now missing six days of pay from that job.

[Anonymous]

He’s teleworking, I’m laid off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We both lost our jobs.

I am very sorry but you are eligible for immediate unemployment. All will be well.