It is far, far worse than it was back then.
We have a little street festival in my hometown of Dundas. I was at the street festival on Saturday. I happened to meet an old banking colleague. She worked in the bank when I first started, in the same branch, and she still works for the bank. I told her where I was coming today, and she said, “Oh, Sally, however bad it was back then, it is a thousand times worse now. I can barely stand it.” Her husband was sitting across from me. We were sitting at a picnic table just having a hot dog during the street festival. Her husband told me that it was a message I needed to get across. People are getting sick. They are having to take early retirement. They're having to quit. They don't get any severance packages. My own husband was threatened with loss of severance when he was entitled to one.
It is just terrible. It is absolutely brutal, and she told me it's far worse now than I could ever imagine, even having gone through it myself for 33 years.