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Yeah watching your savings dwindling for what appears to be a complete waste of time and money will do that to you. You have no idea how hard it was to pay off all debt and put away an emergency fund. Now that emergency fund is going the wrong way thanks to this COVID19 BS. Besides watching my personal savings get burned up, I'm watching friends and family lose their businesses or nest eggs. This whole situation is fucked. At first it was an unknown, and we needed to prepare for the worst, now it's a power grab for wannabe dictators at everyone's expenses. I went from cautious and prepared to fucking pissed off.

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I have been exactly where you are at fifteen years ago. Things got a lot worse for a while. Let me know if you would like to talk.

I suspect I reached my limit last Saturday-my wife called my cell to let me know she spotted a guy walking northbound down the highway across from the house (not at all common for pedestrians to be there) who was talking and gesturing to himself pretty vigorously. As she stepped out the front door he dipped down into the 11' deep depression on the other side of the road and disappeared from view. I told her I'd check on him as she had to leave and I was headed back that way from town.

I stopped at her business on my way (1/2 a mile from our house) and saw two Deputies in the parking lot from my old agency. By and by I went over to visit and learned that they had just contacted the same walker who had apparently changed direction and turned back south and was then hanging around the store where the wife also has her contract post office.

It turns out this mope had two warrants from a neighboring county. One was a misdemeanor and the other a no-bond felony.

Per the new covid policy they had Dispatch contact that agency's jail and they refused to take him. They then tried our jail and got the same response based on the originating agency's stance.

Holy sweet Mother of fucking Geesis Haitch Keerist! Since when do cops get to disregard felony warrants? I guess the Sheriff's Offices are now freaked out about their liability to hold potential infected crooks and that overrides my wife's situation of having this son-of-a-bitch acting squirrely by our house (we live in a very rural area) and being free-range to be afoot where it's 23 miles north to the next town or 17 miles south to the other.

I ended up suggesting (actually talking the younger Deputy into...I retired as a Captain after all) giving this goober a courtesy ride to the county line just to get him the fuck out of our area.

I ranted about this to a Sergeant who stopped by the next day to visit and he topped that with a sex assault warrant he had to let go for the same reasons.

This is too much. LEOs sign on to take care of rounding up bad guys. Liability is part of the job. If you're going to be "essential" then for God's sake FILL YOUR FUCKING BOOTS AND DO THE JOB!! (I realize the decision was made at a level beyond Deputy pay grade, but this is so fucking pussy I still pissed.)

When an arrest warrant signed by a judge says, “You are commanded …,” one would think that there would be no discretion about to arrest or not arrest involved. But I remember once long ago when a deputy was told not to arrest an individual on a warrant because it was Christmas time. Shortly thereafter the individual threatened his wife with a gun and ended up being shot by a city officer. The guy survived and of course his massive medical bills were charged to the county (as I recall).

Thus far there has been little discussion of the mental health effects of the quarantine and social distancing beyond the frustration at the various pronouncements by Governors who seem enchanted with their own power.

I did note that liquor sales nationwide have doubled since the lockdown. I suspect working from home for some people involves enjoying their cocktails all day long. Domestic violence calls are way up according to police. Compulsive handwashing for some has escalated as fear of catching the virus is constantly mentioned. Isolation for those in nursing homes was already a problem, and now no visitors.
People are also missing regular checkups for cancer followup and the like.

we're at the mercy of whoever runs our jails. we don't have our own anymore.

but we've had a good rapport with our night shift COs.

We caught a suspected peeper last night but had nothing to hold him on but our jailer said we could bring him in, so we tossed him in a cell for invest and held him all night until the detectives could interview him.

hopefully this will deter his peeping. i did tell him on the way back to the jail that if it was my house he was peeping in, i'd just shoot him and bury him in the woods. told him that while i was attaching my suppressor to my rifle on the drive back.

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we're at the mercy of whoever runs our jails. we don't have our own anymore.

but we've had a good rapport with our night shift COs.

We caught a suspected peeper last night but had nothing to hold him on but our jailer said we could bring him in, so we tossed him in a cell for invest and held him all night until the detectives could interview him.

hopefully this will deter his peeping. i did tell him on the way back to the jail that if it was my house he was peeping in, i'd just shoot him and bury him in the woods. told him that while i was attaching my suppressor to my rifle on the drive back.

That sir, is how it’s done.

I once had a thug threaten to rape my wife and kill my kids. I calmly told him that what had just occurred between he and I was business...cops and robbers...but if I ever saw him out; remotely, near my home or family I would end him. And expressed that since I was a cop, I could clean any crime scene and dispose of a body properly. He actually shut up and didn’t say another word.

I have had two other threats to my family or myself that I felt were real. And addressed that the same way.

Went to the Korean supermarket for the first time in a while. Walked up to the door and saw a sign "NO MASKS NO ENTRY" posted. I said to Mrs Q, "Fuck these stupid brainwashed assholes", and we left and went elsewhere.

NY is using their electronic overhead road signs to post great messages like "wash hands with soap". I was thinking I should keep a bar on my front seat, that way if I get pulled over for swerving I would say sorry officer, I was just trying to comply with the sign.


With the rona lockdown, the only places I go are to work, to the grocery store, to the range and occasionally to Home Depot. Which I realized are the only places I go when there isn't a lockdown.

Interviewed today for new job at Google. I think I did well, at least we'll enough to get moved on to the next step. Not sure if that next step is offer or more in depth interview. Either way so far I am feeling confident and excited!

It is making me very angry. Very angry indeed.

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Interviewed today for new job at Google. I think I did well, at least we'll enough to get moved on to the next step. Not sure if that next step is offer or more in depth interview. Either way so far I am feeling confident and excited!

Sounds promising Jesse. Good luck to you and keep on doing what you're doing. It must be the right way going forward.

Jim

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NY is using their electronic overhead road signs to post great messages like "wash hands with soap".

N.C. has our overhead signs reading "stay home---covid 19". Every time I pass under one I give it a big middle finger for the cameras.

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Interviewed today for new job at Google. I think I did well, at least we'll enough to get moved on to the next step. Not sure if that next step is offer or more in depth interview. Either way so far I am feeling confident and excited!

Good luck man.

I got an interview next week with another company myself.

I’m in the same boat with unemployment here in FL. Still zero movement.

Good luck to you too Pale Horse, both with the unemployment and the employment.

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Went to the Korean supermarket for the first time in a while. Walked up to the door and saw a sign "NO MASKS NO ENTRY" posted. I said to Mrs Q, "Fuck these stupid brainwashed assholes", and we left and went elsewhere.

Said the same thing (well not literally) to my Eye doctor, they called to schedule our appointment but told them to call when they drop the requirement.

I started this post over 60 days ago when this was just starting. At the time I was doing fine but was concerned about those in the membership that had been in this longer than I had at the time.

As of today I am still employed but can do little else. I've actually been so busy I've been working over hours every week.

I live in a state where on three separate occasions the "stay at home" order has been extended several times, most recently on Friday after 6pm. The rules are more confusing than clear.

I've talked to several people this weekend, most by phone. People are pissed, irritated, frustrated, angry. It doesn't matter whether they are "end this now" or "save lives, stop being selfish", people are mad. Every normal conversation eventually devolves into COVID and in minutes becomes an anger vent.

Some are following the guidelines, many have adopted the 'fuck this I don't care anymore' attitude.

For me, my family is 120 miles away, I'm single and live alone. It sucks. I haven't had physical contact with another human since 16 March. As if dating wasn't tough enough, it's been turned off now. I've been close to meeting someone twice, only to have the stay at home order extended and they gave up on all of it.

My hair is longer than it's been since 1990 and based on my last Governors plan, it will get cut sometime in 2nd quarter of 2021. By that time I'll look like Cousin It. That is way more irritating than I thought it would be when this all started.

I'm personally sick of the constant propaganda. Almost as much as the lack of credible information with which to base any sort of a personal educated decision.

Granted I'm frustrated, but mostly I'm tired. Tired of all of it. Tired of how angry everyone is, tired of the confusing orders, tired of being in an oppressive situation, and for gods sake tired of hearing "the new normal, facts, data, and science, and we all have to do our part to save lives or if it will save 1 life...."

For the first few weeks of the shutdown things were very quiet around my neighborhood (Portland suburbs, typical mixture of residential and small/medium retail businesses). Very little traffic, lots of people out walking their dogs. The only places in the area that are open are grocery stores, gas stations and a few places like hardware stores. All of the highway reader boards say the same thing: "Stay home - save lives". Like I'm condemming some poor elderly lady to death just by leaving the house.

Lately though, like for the last 10 days or so, traffic levels have increased dramatically. I took the dogs up to a park a few miles from home on Saturday and found the parking lot packed with cars. People walking, fishing, playing with their dogs. That's not the only example, it does seem like a lot of people are starting to say "Fuck the Governor, I'm going out to DO something today!"

Some counties are starting to open up again, albeit slowly. I'm just hoping my barber survives the shutdown and doesn't decide to just pack it in and retire. The county that my employer is in, is NOT one of those counties, at least yet. They're saying they hope to qualify sometime in June. So all of us working from home for the last two months got an email last week telling us that even if the county does reopen in June, we're all going to be required to continue working from home "for up to another six months." I hate this shit. I think if I hear another person say "We're all in this together" I'm going to apply a Louisville Slugger to them.

Fed up and frustrated.

Work has started to pick up, getting in *some* time now. At least one major chain reopened in defiance of orders, got two hours in there last week. Got a few hours of work today. Boss has more work for me than I'm actually doing, but wife only wants me working in stores not in people's houses because that's where people are catching it now, in their own homes. Although I don't want to catch this shit, she doesn't want me going back yet, I just want to move on with life. My boss wants me back, probably can work around 20hrs a week, maybe more, he won't give me a straight answer on that.

I was trying to use this time to change careers, but no one has offered me a job yet, or the ones I can get are doing the same stuff I am already doing, so same problem, maxed out on pay with no promotion options.

I'm torn now on resigning to a) make wife happy, and b) continue to search for new path. We are getting buy without me working now, so it may be the best time to try this. I really want to do something different, I don't care if I have to take a pay cut for a year or two or three.

I did finally get part of the unemployment insurance, the PUA payment of $600 per week on top of unemployment, unemployment still on appeal, won't find out until July about that. Now that I'm working, I don't think I can't get those plans any more, not sure how reduced income is handled. My guess is no to unemployment, but maybe partial PUA payment.

Stuck in limbo between making, my boss and wife happy while both not finding a new job and not being able to get full time hours at work. Worst of all worlds.

I need to talk to wife and boss this week, and either go for all hours I can possibly get or quit and try for new career path. If I quit, that rules out any further unemployment payments, but with the money I got this week ($5,600), I've got plenty of time to look for jobs. Luckily what I am applying for isn't affected by Corona (data center work).

I'm leaning towards just resigning and trying for new career. My boss is like a double edged sword. Cares about all his employees deeply, but if he knows I'm looking or I quit, he'll turn into jilted ex-lover and may screw up either reference or the back portion of the unemployment I've been trying to get.

Decision time by end of the week, but 90% sure I'm going to rip the band-aid off and try for new career. Got two prospects that I'm hopeful to hear from this week Google and an energy company working on the building side of data centers (but not me doing the construction).

Will be a fun week of weighing out everything in my head. Probably end up in a fight with wife, boss, or both.

I'm feeling a lot better today! My yardman for the past three months,looking a lot like the Frito Bandito. Has been wearing a large straw hat, bandana and heavy work gloves. Reduced our greetings to fist bumps! Which he explained was caused by him having a sugar problem and it was the only way his wife would let him to get back to work. Today He pulled off his glove and shook my hand! Amazing how good it felt to press flesh again,in a cordial manner and carry on a conversation. And best of all Covid was not on the menu! Looks like we are coming out of this self dug hole.

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I hate this shit. I think if I hear another person say "We're all in this together" I'm going to apply a Louisville Slugger to them.

I with you right there. All the commercials and all the local news channels constantly saying that and reminding us to "social distance", calling this "new normal" and the pc "mask shaming"have totally pissed me off. As best as I can, I will refuse to do business with any of these places advertising their "virtuous actions to protect us" and I'm ready to punch the first person who comes up to me and tells me I'm not keeping enough distance or wearing a mask.