Read a Book. I command thee. If for nothing else than the content little feeling you get when you finish it and want another one.
So, Unemployment is way lame. Not just the current state of not being employed, but the unemployment office, specifically.
I've never had to deal with trying to claim unemployment benefits or anything before, and the whole process has been fairly ghastly and difficult.
Long story short, a little over a month later, I finally get the answer I was looking for, and it's still a shitty one.
I am entitled to unemployment benefits for the last job I was working, which I had hoped for, seeing as it was being taken out of my paycheck and there was claim information right there on every one of my paystubs, but it appears that I am not eligible for it Now.
Applying for unemployment insurance in 2004 means I can only ask for benefits from work done up until december of 2003. This may well be completely normal, I was just not aware of it and was made to believe otherwise.
Now, had I spent the year of 2003 working relatively happilly and making decent money, some of which might come back to me now, I'd be fine. However, if you don't know, I spent the entirety of 2003 working at a freaking video store, mostly for minimum wage, trying desperately to be given the 40 scheduled hours a week to make me full time instead of the 38.5 they maxed me out at and wouldn't count all the overtime I was doing into it, and being consistently screwed out of promotions and being paid incorrectly. The actually still owe me around 125 dollars.
So, the entire process appears to put me in a situation where I will have an open claim for a year to recieve about 100 dollars a week in unemployment while I'm not working. Seeing as that will do basically nothing to help, I'll have no more of a reason not to be frantically concerned about finding a new job, where upon getting said job, I won't be getting that 100 dollars anyway.
I can't scoff at 100 dollars, really, but once I do get a new gig, I sort of wonder if it's worth sending in a paper every week saying I can't get the 100 dollars that week just so that if I lose THAT new job, I'll be able to start getting the 100 dollars again.
-This is so mind-bogglingly uninteresting and stupid that I'm ashamed I'm even talking about it. This time would clearly be better spent frantically looking for jobs, as I would have been doing if I wasn't typing it.
Dave
So, Unemployment is way lame. Not just the current state of not being employed, but the unemployment office, specifically.
I've never had to deal with trying to claim unemployment benefits or anything before, and the whole process has been fairly ghastly and difficult.
Long story short, a little over a month later, I finally get the answer I was looking for, and it's still a shitty one.
I am entitled to unemployment benefits for the last job I was working, which I had hoped for, seeing as it was being taken out of my paycheck and there was claim information right there on every one of my paystubs, but it appears that I am not eligible for it Now.
Applying for unemployment insurance in 2004 means I can only ask for benefits from work done up until december of 2003. This may well be completely normal, I was just not aware of it and was made to believe otherwise.
Now, had I spent the year of 2003 working relatively happilly and making decent money, some of which might come back to me now, I'd be fine. However, if you don't know, I spent the entirety of 2003 working at a freaking video store, mostly for minimum wage, trying desperately to be given the 40 scheduled hours a week to make me full time instead of the 38.5 they maxed me out at and wouldn't count all the overtime I was doing into it, and being consistently screwed out of promotions and being paid incorrectly. The actually still owe me around 125 dollars.
So, the entire process appears to put me in a situation where I will have an open claim for a year to recieve about 100 dollars a week in unemployment while I'm not working. Seeing as that will do basically nothing to help, I'll have no more of a reason not to be frantically concerned about finding a new job, where upon getting said job, I won't be getting that 100 dollars anyway.
I can't scoff at 100 dollars, really, but once I do get a new gig, I sort of wonder if it's worth sending in a paper every week saying I can't get the 100 dollars that week just so that if I lose THAT new job, I'll be able to start getting the 100 dollars again.
-This is so mind-bogglingly uninteresting and stupid that I'm ashamed I'm even talking about it. This time would clearly be better spent frantically looking for jobs, as I would have been doing if I wasn't typing it.
Dave
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i hate unemployment.
everything about it.
even the free time is tainted with the fact that you can't afford to DO anything.
awful.