My husband was laid off this morning (which is how our day is going) but let me give a tip based on this experience. He was called about the lay off 15 minutes before his workday started. By the time he logged into his work email to grab any important emails this am (like stuff +
about his salary, benefits, evaluation history) they had already cut off his access to his work email account and now he can't retrieve anything. Yes, he can get all that shit by contacting their HR employment people, but it's a time-consuming process. If you have IMPORTANT stuff
in your work email or work-controlled file storage, make sure you save or fwd that to yourself --proactively and regularly throughout this crisis. We talked repeatedly about the possibility of layoffs for us both since March, but he hadn't wagered on their cord-cutting alacrity.
Now consider that if we had a professional org that advocated for WORKERS rather than INSTITUTIONS to #ProtectLibraryWorkers these tips/advice are the kinds of valuable things we could be getting from webinars rather than just how to cute-ify your pandemic mask for PK-12 Outreach
This push for workers to think how best to protect themselves and their families is definitely needed because I have multiple work colleagues who are still in denial about the kinds of cuts we're facing at our uni library. The Iceman Cometh and s/he don't care if they were warned
