The new year arrived with a new job for Tyler Simon, who had high hopes for 2020. They didn’t last long.
Tyler Simon
Source: Tyler Simon
“Once Covid-19 hit, things went from bad to worse really quick,” said Simon, a father of two in Summerfield, North Carolina.
A marketing specialist with a sales-training company, Simon lost his job along with several colleagues on April 7 -– less than two weeks into a state-wide lockdown to counter the pandemic. He says many who survived the firm’s layoffs saw their pay cut by 10%.
That’s happening all over the country.
A tsunami of job losses, which ...