to be irrationally annoyed with the furloughed?

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I know I am but I'm jealous that they have all day to lie in the sun, home educate their dc, bake, sew, watch TV whilst I'm busier than ever trying to do it all whilst working from home.
I heard on the radio it's going to cost £50 billion over 3 months and I feel annoyed that the economy is totally f**d because we're paying everyone's salaries, and they're at home doing nothing.
I also know none of this is anyone's fault and IABU.

I feel the same =feel like I would love to be furloughed and get 80% pay for doing sweet FA. Now ?I feel I am killing myself to work for 20% pay effectively

I have a couple of furloughed friends who will definitely have a job after this. They are having a fabulous time and keep WhatsApping me while I'm trying to do a million things. This is probably skewing my opinion a lot.

A lot of these people won't have jobs to go back to. Several retail chains have already gone under and that's not to mention all the small independent businesses that will struggle to survive this.

I own my own business and I have been shut for five weeks and counting. I have no idea when I'll be able to re-open safely. At the moment we are reliant entirely on DH's self-employed income as we don't qualify for any kind of government support.

Be grateful that you still have a job.

I'm more annoyed at how comfortable the government are! Pay rise here and there, not really listening to the public (even though they work for them) I feel for the hard working public who cant actually get out to work, who have serious bills to pay and will struggle to pay after this is all over. I'm annoyed at the government for being useless twats and getting away with it.. Hard working, normal day to day people are the ones I feel for!

It’s not a fucking holiday. The 37% who seem to think it is can fuck off

I’ve been furloughed. I could get a call at any time to tell me they’re going to have to make me redundant instead as there’s no work to go back to. I dread every phone call or message incase it’s that.

I cannot do any other work

I’m 20% of my salary worse off a month (it was already tight). I’m scraping by.

So no it’s not a holiday. It’s a fucking stressful time

DH is fucking gutted about being furloughed and it's meant a big drop in our income and a huge blow to his confidence. I've had my hours reduced to boot. Would rather be working any day, as would most furloughed people probably.

I feel jealous of the fact that I am having to work even longer days than normal during this time whilst others are sunbathing, going for walks every day and exercising more etc but I am grateful I am on full pay and have a secure job.

DH has been furloughed and is losing half his salary due to the cap. He is really worried he will be made permanently redundant after all this. It is a really worrying time so it's not all fun and games being furloughed for everyone.

Well I'm furloughed and I have no garden to sit in. I'm stuck indoors and irrationally hating my stupid neighbour who's sat on her arse all day in the garden, sunning herself. I mean, does she not DO anything else??

Ahem.

I don't have a garden, I don't have the money to buy ingredients to cook anything outside our meal plan and our internet is being used almost exclusively by my husband for him to continue working which means the girls can't get online to access their learning resources so home education is down to what we have available in my brain not much and at home already. Plus I can't afford to print off the 300 odd pages sent through each week to enable the girls to use that as a learning resource. Yep be really fucking annoyed at me. I'm living the life of Riley...I bet you'll even be jealous when I'm made redundant because I'm not essential to my business as identified by thr furlough process!

It's human to feel jealous. The OP has owned that she's being unreasonable.

I am only annoyed with a small subset of them who tell me that I should 'just' enjoy the extra time with my children.

DH and I have demanding jobs. We also have demanding, small children. It's relentless. We are utterly exhausted and feel we are failing at both work and parenting.

Well OP, I am a single parent, sitting in a first floor flat, day after day, trying to keep a 6 year old entertained with no garden or outside space, I earn 3p over minimum wage so my 80% pay this month will be less than minimum wage, and I've got to figure out how to pay all my bills out of that. Hope that makes you feel better.

I feel your pain. I'm jealous too. But that's because I run my own business and there is no money coming in but as a company director there is no support from the government either.

I guess it's hard for everyone at the moment, in one way or another.

Loving the description. Everyone I know who's 'furloughed' is still working.

under the condition that eligible employees supported essential or charitable sectors

How do you enforce such a thing though? You can't force people to volunteer doing something that isn't their job just because they've been furloughed through no fault of their own.

There could be a huge amount of reasons why someone can't or doesn't want to. I'm losing 20% of my salary, perhaps I can't afford the petrol/public transport to get to these charitable / essential sectors.

Who decides who is eligible?

I understand the rationale behind saying this sort of thing but in practice it's a ridiculous and unrealistic expectation.

I've been furloughed from one of my jobs, I would much rather be at work. My other job is working for the NHS as a bank nurse. I have asthma so I'm not working in that role either.

I miss my jobs, I feel so useless at the moment.

I’ve been furloughed and it’s felt like a kick in the teeth tbh.

I'm furloughed and I totally understand you. Im having a lovely time because I'm not homeschooling either (although running around after a toddler isn't easy but def not as hrs as that) I started this working at home and it was hell doing both so I feel really lucky. That's not supposed to sound like showing off, more than I totally understand how you're thinking

@GrumpyHoonMain so who is going to look after my 6 year old while I go out volunteering?

@GrumpyHoonMain what do you mean ‘on the condition they supported the charitable sector’? Do you think anyone can just wander into a charity and do anything? We’re highly skilled at what we do in my charity and it’s actually quite hard to recruit because we need people to be such a high calibre.

OP I would love to be at work. I miss it. I hate that we’re not able to do our charity’s life changing work right now and hundreds of young people will miss out on our programme this year. It’s not a holiday.

Furloughing isn't going to cause economic damage. Furloughing is designed to try and reduce the economic damage caused by the CV response.

I do wish people would stop trotting out the “people who are furloughed are in much greater danger of losing their jobs” like it’s gospel truth

Well, we don't know they're not yet, do we? I'm worried I may be redundant at the end of it too. It's not a picnic, I feel like there's a cliff edge coming soon.

Yep lm with you. Probably biased as a friend is whining about being furloughed, he’s on 100% pay and is moaning about having to give up 10 days annual leave. His wife is on full pay and at home not working as she’s pregnant. Seems like a sweet deal to me. In contrast lm working my arse off 9-10 hours a day

I see where the op is coming from. My Facebook feed is full of "I'm decorating...." "I'm baking" "painting" "sitting in my gargen"

Sure it's people posting what they want you to see, but when you're still putting in your hours you can see why it feels annoying.

The irony..my role is important but my boss was asking if im sure i dont want to be furloughed because of childcare. They were actually begging me to rest cos he knows how i struggle with childcare.

I told him im fine ( even though im not) because im scared that me not being furloughed guarantees my job security