How many are now or will be out of a job soon?

Usually I’m very anti-data mining, but today I had an extremely weird meeting at work. I work in maintenance for a big company in the food and beverage industry, multi billion dollar company. I’m in SW Washington and we were told today that as of now, if we have kids and have to stay home to care for them since schools are closed we can take any amount of time we want, it’s unpaid. This alone surprised me since the majority of workers here are food packers which means they pose a high risk to contamination.

We were then told that if we live in or near or have visited an CDC designated “hot zone/high risk area” we are to self quarantine at our discretion! What!?!

The feeling I got is they are about to close down and maybe at first run a few lines that are high yields/sales, but we can’t make product fast enough. Our warehouse is at 40 percent as of today, during January we have high focus for the Super Bowl and summer months and are always at over 90 percent stock capacity.

Getting weird out there,