Nearly half of all furloughed workers now believe their temporary layoff will become permanent

Katherine Williams of Waterford, Connecticut, worried her job as a fulfillment lead for Macy’s wouldn’t be restored when she was furloughed in April. Her fears were confirmed in late June when she received a call that her assistant-manager-level position was eliminated.

“I had a gut feeling it was going to happen,” Williams, 40, tells CNBC Make It. In February, prior to the threat of the pandemic, her store was identified as one of the 125 Macy’s locations scheduled to close in the next three years. The department store chain began reopening some locations in May, and Williams noticed she wasn’t called back even after her own store reopened.

At one point, before she was officially laid off, Williams recalls stopping by the store to pick up some items for her family, when she saw some of the associates who used to report to her were back at work.

“It was quite a kick in the face,” Williams says. “I had left a good job to help the [Macy’s] store manager who wanted me there, and now I can’t go back to my other job.” About a year ago, Williams left her steady job as a public school-bus driver to work for the retailer. Because she was gone for the past school year, Williams says it’s unlikely she can go back to her old position now. Not to mention, it’s unclear how schools and buses will operate when the district plans to begin the year on August 31.

Unlike the 30's depression that ended by creating the 2nd World War as a 'make work' project a decade later.

They are right if they don’t stand up and do something.

So bad

And no we don’t need war to pull us out

We need to reign in corporations around this planet

Why doesn't it embarrass people to be broke and live check to check? It would embarrass the hell out of me...to the point I would do something about it...

that's called war

the Chinese Virus is just getting started.
so, it's gonna be around for a while.

So no more shooting the shit around the water cooler or surfing glp at work