Scientist.

I am a Biochemist. Mostly interested in Cancer, but we are now trying to see if the metabolic pathway we target would be relevant for Covid-19.

Has been considered non essential on the short term.
Cuts in the research and development budget of a company are painless and save money... on the short term.
There were cuts at the national level in medical research in France too.
On the long term though... may be you'll need us.

Even then, for now, I must confess that the people I would love to have now as neighbors would not be scientists but : 1) farmers 2) doctors. 3) someone able to fix anything.

Interesting, I’m Union & my entire industry has instantly shifted to work from home.

Anyway, I make cartoons - absolutely non-essential, yet something we can still do as a collaborative team remotely - so, we haven’t been laid off, and are continuing with our jobs as best we can despite the circumstances, from home. As far as I know every animation studio in town is still continuing.

To all of you heroes with the essential jobs out there braving this mess - thank you & take care “out there”!

Non- I'm an iron melter in a foundry still working 60 hours a week

Essential, crude oil refinery operations. The oil never stops, 24 hours 365.

From what I’ve read , the list of non essential workers is very short . That’s in NY where most of us are essential .

Network Administrator for a local government agency here. I’ve been told that we (everyone in my IT department: one other IT admin, and 5 other Helpdesk Techs) are essential.

Throughout the week, all the admin personnel have devastated our asset inventory so they could work from home, but they haven’t budged on letting IT work from home yet.

The truth of the matter is that we’ve all work from home after hours and periodically every month depending on the need. Now that we ask to just make it 100% from home in the wake of this event, we’ve been denied..

This was the argument that was made to us in IT when we asked to work from home. They also went on to say if you ask to work from home, how does that look for your job being outsourced?

I was taken aback from that statement. Why are you (management) and everyone else (in a different union group) transitioning to working from home then?

IT tends to be an afterthought in any planning made by management.

I'm out of work, so I guess it wasn't essential.

Too bad they don't feel student loans are "non-essential"

Sorry to hear that.

It's not much, but there's a little help:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-suspend-your-student-loan-payments-11584799200

While I'm NOT an operator, the company I work for supplies parts to keep these types of companies operating. We also supply nuclear facilities, food and bev providers, water and waste water operations, pretty much anything to keep others in production / operation.
Yes, we are a middle man and I wish NOT to get into that discussion here, I've covered that in other threads. I actually have a B.S. in distribution so we can chat about that in PM if it really gets you excited.

I'll let the government decide if we are Essential, however under advise from our attorney, know I will exercise my First Amendment right of freedom of assembly and do that at my workplace should push come to shove.

I work in the office for a glass company, we are open and doing jobs! I am not sure why, but we are here till the government tells us otherwise!

I fix copiers and printers at customer's locations. You would think that is non-essential but not so. Many hospitals, doctors offices, etc are depending on us to keep things running. With schools being closed as well as many businesses, our call load is way down, but we are still working.

Non. I own a bowling pro shop. Governor shut the bowling centers down last Tuesday .

I'm a software developer and our company is having us work from home.
My wife is a neuropsychiatrist and she still goes into the hospital to work, but many patients are not coming in or asked not to come in depending on their severity.
My three-year-old is at home with us, since we are too nervous to send her to daycare. She mostly watches movies while I work. Fortunately, my wife comes home after lunch to take care of her since her work has slowed significantly.

Overall, we feel extremely fortunate in the current situation. We are trying to keep our community businesses alive, ordering take out delivered whenever we can and leaving very large tips. My wife also makes it a point to donate to a lot of causes right now.

Our lives are still very stressful though, we constantly worry that my wife will pick up the virus and bring it home since she works at the hospital.

I'm not essential. But I work remotely for a software company, so nothing is changing as far as my job goes. I never have to travel or go into the office.

Hotel industry.... You tell me.

This one appreciates when when you are home.

Software sales. Non essential and am based out of my house, but supporting government agencies that are impacted.

I make circuit boards for pinball machines. Not essential but I work out of my home. Unless the post office shuts down or I can't get materials I will stay working. Amount of orders has slowed down the last two weeks for sure.

Yeah well, when you're union with the CWA, don't expect them to ever do anything in the workers' favor. They pretty much have bent over and smiled for the company for all 11 years I've been with my employer. We've had no REAL pay increases because they let the company run rampant with medical premium costs, and while I get a COLA every year, it's just taken away in January when premiums go up every year. So for August-Dec I have a pay raise. For Jan-August I have a pay CUT.

As of this morning, they're talking about potentially letting us work from home. It's never been done, or discussed, before. I don't think it will be viable for me to do if we have to be on phones at all, because I have noisy kids and nowhere to isolate my work quietly at home. But if it reduces my exposure to other people, then GOOD.

I'm in the Car Wash business , so no , not essential

Wasn't the primary purpose of unions 'back in the day' to help ensure worker safety?

Try telling that to my girlfriend.

Medical marijuana, essential.

I am at work working so what does that say

Uff, yeah that all sounds like some bullshit.

My next door neighbor just called me as he's currently has an "office" set up in his truck in the driveway

They had us set up to work from home at the start, then they realized it's stupid and have given us the ability not to work if we can't and still get paid.

Director of Facilities for a University, and senior commander in the National Guard. Pretty much essential at both jobs right now.

went to the bank today , security guard at the door , they make you line up outside 10ft apart , only allow two people in the bank at a time ,with only two tellers open , as one person exits , the next in line goes in , waited about 1/2 an hour to get in , they are closing all non essential business at midnight tuesday

No drive thru?

no drive thru , they are rare up here , atm's . yes lots

Lots of drive thrus here.
Maybe that is why we are all overweight.

oh we have drive thrus for food , just not for banks

I have a feeling both Canadian and American government will be determining what's essential and provide the public with a list. I just see it coming.

Essential. Delivering your pinball parts to your neighbors address for 11 years now! Lol

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Dougie Ford is making a list now . went to the same high school with him , he just lived down the road from me

My job is essentially non-essential, turned in my shopping cart yesterday. Gonna miss picking up all those cans...
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Still is, at least in my field.

Hey Zampinator , I work for the same employer!

Cop here. We get our temperatures taken every day before we go on shift. Few if any traffic stops and arrests.

are you letting people get way more traffic stuff then normal?

Retired NYPD non essential. Part time armed security for USDA quarantine animal facility as of now essential. Full time courier for a medical marijuana company essential.

I was wondering the same thing. The other day I could have easily been pulled over and given a ticket, but when I seen the cop right behind me I just got off the road as fast as I could, and he did not follow me.

(I was speeding AND talking on the phone, it was a business issue, not personal, but still not legal).

Yep. Most traffic stops are BS anyways. None of the traffic stops that we do on a regular basis have anything to do with what causes accidents.

We're dealing with as much stuff as we possibly can over the telephone, which is surprisingly a lot. We're not going into people's houses unless it's absolutely necessary.

Our roll call meetings are in the big conference room now so that we can all sit far apart. I'm pretty impressed with the policies the department has implemented to keep us in the public safer.

YOU, are a awesome COP, and PERSON!

Thank You! For your service, and obvious common sense and empathy that is lost so many times these days.

USPS.

I dont see us shutting down anytime soon, if ever.

I'm fortunate to work in IT as a support engineer. We are getting hammered with work from home requests from our clients right now. They sent us all home Monday to work from there.

Same here, rural carrier. No shut down in sight, especially with people relying on Amazon deliveries for supplies and working more from home.

Not to mention the USPS delivery of medications, all IRS communications. Ya'll are certainly essential, I want my stimulus check that hasn't even been approved yet!