Holding Pattern, And Life.

Everything on hold, or in a state of "I dunno".

Vegas situation is about the same.

Pure speculation but May 1st is being bandied about on Vegas social media as a possible opening date. That would be roughly a month from away. Cheeto Man today says he's leaving national social distancing guidelines in place until the end of April anyway so it wouldn't surprise me to see some announcements from either Nevada or the resorts themselves along those lines.

That means my April trip will be a no-go, obviously, and I cancelled the room, cancelled the flight and banked the flight credit to book when/if we get some certainty. I have a trip booked for the first week of May and have a backup trip date on the books resort-wise, for May 24th, and can use either the Alaska or Allegiant flight credit out of either SFO or OAK. Won't book air until it's a more or less slam dunk.

Life? Well, life is up in the air too. I continue to work from home and will likely be able to do so for at least the next week, but after that it may get harder for me or my boss to justify that status, if it's even left in our hands. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the company lays people like me and my team off soon. I wouldn't be bitter about it, we were hired to do a job at a customer site and if the customer site isn't open they're paying us for nothing. I know how business works and I know I'm not contributing a penny to the company coffers right now. As it stands our site is shut down until at least the 20th of April and who knows if not longer.

The company has been good to us with the previously mentioned work from home status and they have also extended 40 hours of emergency PTO to us. If I'm able to work one more week from home and use up the PTO, that along with the $1200 coming in Fed stimulus gets me basically through April. Then if I'm laid off I guess it's back on UI to ride through the rest of the summer if need be. I feel like in any event when the site does reopen we will be back to work, we are pretty much superstars both for my and the customer's companies, and we bring in a lot of revenue.

So yeah, holding pattern. Which I hate, I'm a fan of resolution and clarity but there's nothing else I can do right now.