At this point, there are enough red flags that unless they had a really good and convincing explanation, Husband wouldn't take the job. I advocated a little bit for taking the relocation money and toughing it out in the theoretical job for a year, but honestly, the whole thing has just been ridiculous.

The UK recruiter feels bad about how the whole thing is going through resources and compiling some companies that might have jobs for him.

Dana, how frustrating. The only silver lining I see is that: if this is how they treat someone they're recruiting, imagine how they'd behave once y'all had signed on and moved. This is not a company you want to work for.

Dana, your husband (and you!) deserve immense praise for putting up with all that drawn-out bullshit for so long. What assholes.

A very good restaurant in Maryland - The Inn at Little Washington - will be opening at 50% capacity. They've acquired mannequins, dressed them in 1940s style clothing and have them at alternate tables. The wait staff have been instructed to treat them as customers, to the extent of pouring wine for them.

Sounds like eating in a Doctor Who episode.

Sorry you two are being dragged through this, Dana.

Thanks, guys.

I guess the possible good news is that my contract job is again making noises about a conversion to full-time. The local guy I work with has been very complimentary and is agitating for it, trying to convince the higher-ups. So that's a possible route back to having benefits we don't pay out the nose for.

Uuuuggghhhh Dana. Good luck with the benefits getting!

Best of luck with obtaining employment, Dana and DH of Dana. What a lot of stress for nothing! That company doesn't deserve either of you.

I dislike the person I have become, and the illness I wish upon the idiots. But I can't help it. They deserve what they get, but the rest of the citizens they will come in contact with don't.

Laura, I am right there with you. I'm afraid for the workers who are forced to be in harm's way, but I no longer give a crap what happens to the idiots who want to behave as if everything is normal and fine. I just don't have the emotional bandwidth left to care about people who won't care about anyone else.

sigh

~ma to everyone. I just want to charter a private plane and fly allay'all out here to stay for the duration. We've had no active cases on-island for several days, and there's actual testing and, while there's absolutely going to be some tourist who brings it in, we've got some hope of limiting the spread, since we have much more ability to limit people coming in.

That is good to hear, DebetEsse. I was just having a moment of despair that everywhere was fucking up.