Klein has 125 openings right now. We are hiring. Also the narrative that there are teachers u ions running crap in Texas is funny. I don’t know a single teacher, liberal or conservative, that is a member of a teachers union. Nor have I seen any meetings or propaganda from them.
We had to work from home on the fly with zero training and a boatload of new bureaucratic paperwork to cover our teacher butts. You think that the last 2 months were weird try the new virtual world with still no training. Cut the management pay that throws stuff down the pipe but to say we weren’t working…
Try reaching zoom to a group of developmentally challenged students, take calls from their crying parents, try to speak spanish to other parents all while submitting daily log after log after log.
This will work if you have outdoor seating. Most do not.
The thing about opening with limited capacity is that limited capacity means less revenue being generated. Also the fear associated with rising infections and deaths affects consumer behavior. This is the issue the restaurants are facing despite being open, and again, there are variable costs involved with opening.
By keeping things partially open with no guidance, we just prolong the period of time in which we are in this limbo phase, and prolong this period of reduced earnings with no financial assistance.
Better to clamp things down properly for several weeks and then fully open the virus is fully manageable
heart goes out to you man. Hope they figure out a way too get you guys back in the building. My wife is a retired teacher from Cy Fair. I read your post to her. She is happy to have retired.
As of right now we are back on August 19. Not sure how it will work. We are in a registration process right now for all students, all 54000 of them, to decide on virtual or on campus. After the numbers all sort out I assume the plan will start. Teachers will have to be split up with live teaching and virtual teaching. I know that as of right now the plan is for the virtual teachers to teach virtually from the campus.
Until the numbers arrive we are just waiting. Half of my developmental kids look to be opting for virtual. No idea how I teach half a class in person and half online in my world. I am the only developmental teacher on campus and they want 7 hour days for virtual in the fall. Should be fun.
Not picking on anyone here. But we are absolutely not sharing the load equally in misery around the country. There are giant donut holes in numerous industries and businesses that are getting murdered with no income, and yet do not qualify for either 1) stimulus checks, nor 2) government loans.
The government absolutely picked winners and losers, based on LAST year’s status, both in choice of business models and income.
I explore for and produce oil and gas for a living (3rd gen), and we started crashing in January, and effectively have had zero income now for 3 months. I have no employees and my business entity is a limited partnership, which has been in existence for 25 years. Therefore, we don’t qualify for Bumkas…
I raise this issue, because Texas in general and Houston in particular, has thousands and thousands of examples like mine, in hundreds of industries, which fall into this donut hole.
I would rather see literally everyone get a check, versus what we have now, regardless of the type of business you own, it’s business structure, and LAST year’s income.
You obviously haven’t done any reaearch on what other countries have done. It’s not hard to look up. South Korea and Germany are just two countries who had tests in January. Something as simple as being prepared was the main thing I was asking for.
Exactly, socializing still goes on, non social distancing still goes on, bar owners lose their equipment and their leasehold improvements to their landlord for failure to pay tent.
Landlord then resells turnkey bars after the the restrictions are lifted.
This is our typical ridiculousness. A lot of unfairness and nothing was gained.
Covid isn’t fair. Life isn’t fair. Running a business always has risks and is not fair.
But like I said, more assistance should be given to non essential businesses like bar owners as a disaster relief. Because this is a disaster and we need to treat it as one instead of pretending all these people in the city are not dying
I’ve worked in finance in Houston for 10 years…was laid off twice from companies who were reigning in their opex when commodity prices tanked to protect their short term earnings.
I’ve long recognized that business is not fair.
I’m not disagreeing with you that there is a hypocrisy in closing local bars but letting national chains of gyms stay open. But this is the system that we live in.
I do think there will be a social reckoning that comes out covid as the financial pain it causes will be spread disproportionately, and it will take solutions that are outside of the US comfort zone to keep the economy from legit collapsing
But this was not your typical life isn’t fair. This was a state sponsored unfairness. It was a redistribution of wealth by scare tactics and political means.
Don’t think for one second that capital isn’t sitting on the sidelines waiting to buy up bars. It is the thing that amazon can’t deliver, a human social experience.