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Someone’s bored cuz of the pandemic.

I am to, I feel like citizen z in z nation nothing to do isolated in my home living on crappy unemployment.

There's a lot of people going on unemployment right now because many businesses (who are deemed non-essential) have had to temporarily close because of their state's COVID-19 quarantine lockdown guidelines and they have "laid off" employees, so they are able to apply for the special COVID-19 unemployment set-up.

While I'm considered an essential employee at the assisted living I work at, I was "laid off" from my movie theater position. So I'm on unemployment at this time until the theater is able to open back up and employees can go back and work.

I mean this can’t be right my time at dg is from 2013 to 2020 when I got terminated on March 13, 2020. So long term doesn’t matter at retarded Dollar General. So they just did poof with me. Now they have to pay unemployment to me now

Have they indicated that the lay off is temporary and will reinstate employees when things can start opening up? Or will it be a rehire?

I ask since, my primary job has us "laid off" but it's functionally a furlough. (They're often used interchangeably but are actually quite different. Furlough is still employed, but not working, or making money, still getting insurance, and it's usually for a period of time that's determined at the start of the furlough.. versus laid off being the "We can't afford/don't need all the staff we normally need during these times.) Both cases are better than being fired of course. As both a Furlough and being laid off indicate that the reasoning for you not making money is outside of your control, and in some cases (like the current situation) outside of the companies control.

Being fired, usually means that something has gone wrong at the location you work at, either through your fault, or through someone else's fault that has been blamed on you. (most commonly with managers that are incompetent/covering themselves, or not being what said company is looking for in a worker. Can also be from not following directions, being a general bad employee, or more specific things.) There's also being "let go" which normally happens during that early grace period where the company is testing you out to see if you're a good fit or not. (usually about 2-4 weeks for the duration of the grace period since your hire.

Once the movie theater is given permission to re-open and allow floor staff to start working again, they are planning on bringing us back. At least that's their plan at this time.