Well I think you only get $275 if you make over a certain amount so a lot of them could be making around the same or less. In my husband’s case because he has been furloughed from his second job and he actually makes more than $275 +600 per week he will be taking a pay cut. Plus it is the $600 become automatic for everybody? He would rather just keep his job LOLI just looked it up, you’re correct on the $275.
If WDW employees are furloughed or laid off, many will actually be bringing home more than if they were working.
What a genius bill.
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Kevin_W
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It was exactly like normal (except the Mickey & Minnie wasn't an option, wasn't it supposed to be?). It had you select morning/afternoon/evening and then it showed you available times in that general timeframe. But you could click the attraction and pick anything available that day.
Rich Brownn
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Florida's minimum wage is $8.46/hr. And if people are getting paid more on unemployment (a whopping $1000 a month for 3 months) and trying to survive -- well, that says more about how corporations treat their employees rather than the people.I just looked it up, you’re correct on the $275.
If WDW employees are furloughed or laid off, many will actually be bringing home more than if they were working.
What a genius bill.
easyrowrdw
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Keeping your rate the same for your return trip (maybe outside of Christmas) doesn't seem like very much to me. I'm sorry you lost your trip.
No one but you is deciding that you should avoid insanity by arguing about the virus on this forum. Write a book, take up a hobby, donate money and whatever resources you can muster remotely to help ease our situation. But you're bored, boo hoo.
easyrowrdw
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Thank you. I told her that I hadn't heard anything like that before and that she should try to modify them. She hasn't been in a long time so she's not very familiar with the process.
21stamps
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How are you coming up with $1000 per month? They’re going to be making over $20 per hour on unemployment. Much more than they were making before. Meanwhile, people who were making, let’s use an even $2000 per week and laid off or furloughed due to coronavirus, they’re seeing a drastic decrease. Not saying that pay should be $2000 per week for the unfortunate people who were furloughed or laid off, but it’s so horrible to me that too many people will end up making more.. and then add in their $1200 checks and dependent checks.
The government is throwing money at people where it didn’t need to be thrown, and we’ll all pay for it. Again though, Andrew is correct that it would have taken too long to do it differently, it’s still a bit gross though.
easyrowrdw
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Didn't GM also decide to move production out of the US even after getting a tax break of some sort from the government? I think Trump wasn't at all pleased about that.
GoofGoof
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Many of the people making less than $875 a week work more than one job. You only get the $600, not $600 per job. There are probably some younger workers who may still live at home who could benefit. It’s not perfect, but in a time like this that’s far from the biggest problem. It’s also capped at 4 months. Nobody is going to turn down long term employment to gain some extra money for a few months.I just looked it up, you’re correct on the $275.
If WDW employees are furloughed or laid off, many will actually be bringing home more than if they were working.
What a genius bill.
21stamps
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Do the math on 4 months, or even 1 month, or all of the stimulus checks to people who never lost income or shouldn’t qualify due to not enough income.
2 trillion dollars is what was spent, printed. That number could have been drastically cut down. People who are drastically affected will still be drastically affected, while many others will make more than they were making before this happened.
It is what it is though. Unfortunately.
Whoa whoa... I thought it was $275+$600 a WEEK... omg is it a month?! My family and I will be in trouble. I thought it was $600 a week
Some of the US stimulus bill talk would be better suited to the politics/social section
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21stamps
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No, it’s per week. You’re correct.
Virtual Toad
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I'm sure given a choice most WDW cast would gladly give up their newfound-- and in your words "sickening"-- windfall of $275 a week and go back to work at the place we all love. Unfortunately there's this thing out there, you know, a pandemic. Which is making everyone's lives a challenge. Some apparently more of a challenge than others.
$600 a week? Sign me up!
trainplane3
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And here I was in 2010 getting paid $10.25 to literally scoop ice cream at a Ben & Jerry's. That's...wow...
John park hopper
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I wonder how many people dropped a bundle of cash at WDW in the last few months and now are faced with reduced or unemployment are regretting that trip and wish they had that cash in reserve.
21stamps
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It’s $875 per week. Not $275. Look, there are people who will need to make major adjustments in their lives, and some who may not bounce back for years if so many of the companies who did mass layoffs, do not choose to rehire for quite some time.
It’s sad to me, extremely sad, that many people will experience that, while many more end up profiting off the situation at what will end up being all of our expense.
I don’t want to say any more about it, as I don’t know if that’s considered political or not. I really just wanted to point out what’s going to happen, and why Disney may have waiting to decided until the bill had passed.
hopemax
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I was paid $10 an hour at my college job in 1996-97. Some of the stuff I read about what people "deserve."
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