As you will see from the message below, J-1 Students will not be coming to Ocean City for the 2020 summer season. We had pretty much figured this was coming. IF we do get a summer season in Ocean City, (which I do not believe will happen) this will create even more heartache as American kids do not want to fill these jobs. It's going to be one hell of a roller coaster ride.
COVID-19: Program/Housing Update from UWT
In light of the continued uncertainty of COVID-19, we made the decision to suspend new enrollment in our SWT program to new applicants on March 20, 2020. When this difficult choice was made, our program was 93% filled in Ocean City (and surrounding areas) and ready for Summer 2020. As the length of this temporary COVID-19 pandemic continues to remain unclear, we are preparing for an increase in local business slowdowns, embassy closures/delays, university delays, and ongoing participant withdrawals.
Given all of the information that we have at this time, we are not able to fill your housing on file with us for 2020 at the below location(s).
Party is OVER !!!
ReplyDeleteThere may be many other people will who will be willing to work in OC this summer. Many just as a second job to bail themselves out of the financial mess due to the virus.
ReplyDeleteI personally don’t think there will be a summer season in Ocean City. Given what has been reported, the speed and veracity of the virus, and the fact that the best scientific minds in the world are still trying to figure it out, and that all adds up to closure for the beaches.
ReplyDeleteWe better get a summer season! Open it all back up. People can wear masks and practice hand washing. If you are over 65 avoid crowded spaces. We cannot survive as a country if we continue on with everything closed down. Don’t come at me with a low IQ response of “you’re gonna kill grandpa “.
ReplyDelete11:46 - I wouldn’t count on a summer season - if this is affecting you personally, I would look for some sort of tele phone work job - right now I think the town is trying to find a way to salvage August
DeleteEveryone on welfare should be applying for those jobs!
ReplyDeleteI agree, I am, and I will! Im very much hoping for a summer season to work my a$$ off!
DeleteClosed Season 2020 for Ocean City !!! Fact
ReplyDeleteHire American.
ReplyDeleteIt’s not that Americans don’t want to do the job. Americans are willing to do all kinds of jobs. It’s the fact that Americans don’t want to do it for the low wages that OC is giving.
ReplyDeleteTotally false
DeleteRickie!!!!!!!!! No backup plan sir? Of course not, putz.
ReplyDeleteWe will take the Beautiful Euro Girls though , send them here !!! LOL
ReplyDeleteIt is over. The volume of local workers for these jobs simply doesn’t exist. People are gonna be forced to realize the madness of defining their lives and success by money and recreation. Too little too late.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side... Anyone looking for work in some of the businesses that are allowed to be open will be making the good money.
ReplyDeleteIt will be "an employee market" for sure.
To 1:50:
ReplyDeleteIt's not the money at all.
It is the cost of a summer place to stay that keeps American kids from working the beach.
Blame the realtors, not the business owners.
Also these Mex ladies that come to Dorchester county to pick crabs are out. Our rep made a big to do about getting these visas released but now that the feds have backed down on it due to all the unemployed not a peep out of him.
ReplyDeleteI work in the state department and all beaches will remain closed in 2020. It was one of the talking points on the next relief package coming out to bail out resort towns. I voiced my concerns that resort towns like ocean city need to be made aware of this now so they can start planning. I'd go on record but I cannot afford to lose my job.
ReplyDeleteYou’re an idiot. You know that’s not true. Why are you lying ? That doesn’t even make sense what you’re saying
DeleteYeah! What American kid wants to work in a beach resort town for the summer? Complete bollocks. OC business owners just like the tax incentives. Cry harder.
ReplyDelete@11:01 You're full of crap as Georgia already reopened theirs and the economic reality is going to tell the state department where it can go.
ReplyDeleteWhile Georgia beaches will remain open during the statewide shelter-in-place ordinance, the public will not be allowed to place chairs, tents or umbrellas on beaches until the order is lifted after April 13.
ReplyDeleteIt's coming. Peoples safety is more important then money. Between unemployment and relief packages 99% of people will be covered.
What part doesn't make sense? The part about Georgia? Or the part about people being covered? BUT let me make a correction to that 99% getting covered - its probably more like 50% because most people around here aren't smart enough to actually follow through with what you are supposed to be doing right now. I cant wait to see all the non-tax paying idiots of this area go apeshit when their coworker, friends and family member who were smart enough to apply for assistance or actually did file taxes in prior years all get their benefits.
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