@flippertyop
i worked in the local supermarket depot during lockdown to top up my furlough. There were jobs available if you looked for them - they were just different jobs mainly focused on distribution and delivery. There were pilots driving delivery vans. Of course if you've made a decision to live in the middle of nowhere with no public transport that would be harder. But again that was your choice. I think it's inexcusable to complain about receiving 80 percent of your salary with two of you sitting at home. One of you could have found something if you had looked around Amazon were recruiting like nobodies business. Half the depot were furloughed
For the last god damn time, we are not complaining! I was highlighting how a 20% in wages could easily tip many families over the edge! We had savings, we were fine! You have never once gone back to address your original comment and how tone deaf it was.
Obviously, if that situation became permanent we would have made changes! We didn't base our not having a car or where we live on the possibility of a global pandemic shutting down half of the economy!
Obviously if my husband was out of work, and there were no job opportunities on an ongoing basis we would make changes to address that. While my children are young, it is more cost effective to have a parent at home and us not have to run a car. Sorry that makes you so bitter - maybe make some of the changes I suggested in my previous post to you too can be home with your kids!
One of us finding something for those 3 months would have meant handing a load of money out up front for a car or moving house, which has its own costs and would take longer than the 3 months he was actually furlougued for - not to mention the fact everything was bloody closed so we couldn't have done either of those things anyway! - how was that bloody realistic? I'll say it again, it was an unprecedented situation caused by a global pandemic, it is not our normal circumstances.
Your solution that no one should ever live in the countryside ever just in case a pandemic should happen is much more sensible 🙄
It honestly beggars belief that you cannot imagine how anyone's situation is different than your own. We live within our means, without any benefits, under our set up in normal times, and had a contingency of savings for emergencies. But I recognise we are lucky in that. A great many people don't have that luxury and are trapped by circumstance. Its not a matter of "just moving house" - what an over simplified, condescending solution that just highlights how out of touch and narrow minded you are.
Congratulations that you found a solution for yourself during lockdown - many wouldn't have been able to due to differing circumstances, a concept that clearly escapes you.
And there's many on here who believe that if you were able to work elsewhere during lockdown, you shouldn't have been entitled to furlough because you could still bring in a wage. Furlough was for those who couldn't work anywhere else or were shielding. So while people were losing jobs, businesses, homes and livelihoods, you were actually profiting from the tax payers pocket. Maybe if you had picked a career that wasn't so fragile or unnecessary, your job would have been safe through all this and you wouldn't have needed to be furloughed at all! Much like we chose where we live, which was suitable and viable before lockdown, you chose a job that was suitable and viable before lockdown. Why didn't you use your crystal ball when career picking?