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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s face it. As usual, poor people in America get the shaft. My husband works in big tech. They are estimating only 30% of their global employees will be back in an office by October. 
My wealthy SAHM friends all plan to continue to stay at home during the summer. All have cancelled vacation plans. All are either using delivery to get groceries or going at odd hours.
Who is really at risk? Poor people who work in crowded places that can’t be protected and who have crappy or no health care. 
There will be people who take dumb risks because they’re either young and unlikely to get really sick (which is fine as long as they don’t pass it on...) or because they don’t believe the risks are real. And we we will see how that plays out. 
But most of the wealthy and educated people will sit back in their cushy homes and watch and wait.[/quote]

Yep. Capital One just announced that 40k of its 50k employees will be WFH until at least Labor Day and when it's time to come back into the office, they'll get 6 weeks notice (I assume this is all of finance/acct/legal/strategy/IT -- NOT the bank tellers who have to be at the branches eventually). There are biglaw whispers that no one is in the office again until after Labor Day (meaning attorneys -- no clue what they'll do with staff, probably lay some more off since the aren't  doing much at home); if biglaw is WFH until Labor Day, surely investment banking/Wall Street will be as well. SAHMs can keep SAHM-ing. White collar professionals can either get grocery delivered or calendar themselves an outlook entry to go to the store or Target or Home Depot or wherever they need at 10 am or 1 pm or whenever it's empty in their area bc they don't have the type of job where anyone is getting after them for stepping away for an hour mid day for an errand. These groups can wait it out for months if needed.

It's the "regular" people who will be forced back to work too soon because states are reopening (not so much Va but other places) and then because they're working, their options will be stopping by stores at 5 pm or on weekends -- when they are most crowded.

If this doesn't teach kids to go to college and then get the high end JDs/MBAs/engineering and go higher end white collar, IDK what will.[/quote]

I agree this describes almost everyone I know except physicians.[b] However my husband had to take a 20% pay cut as I’ve heard many others have. [/b]I know he’s lucky to still have his job. They are venture backed though and will run out of money in September if they can’t raise more capital by then (unlikely.)[/quote]

Really?  What industry is he in?  I haven’t heard of anyone getting a pay cut that large yet. [/quote]

I also had my pay cut 20% a month ago. Several hundred colleagues were laid off for 16 weeks. I'm in sales.[/quote]

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