Hey guys! I just recently got a job that I start in a few days. I'm happy i got one, especially bcuz its sooo hard to find A JOB in todays world. I have been w/out a job basically for over a year. I did work 2months at a previous job, but hated it bcuz I worked 12hrs, Sat-Mon., wkends, and the work was HARD!! Anyway, I didn't quit that job, I got fired a wk shy of my 90days cuz they felt I wasn't right 4 the job. I felt the same way, but was willing to stick it out cuz I needed a job.
So, I've been collecting unemployment since Aug. 2009. However, I'm in the last tier now, and far as I know, it ends after that. I start another job in a few days, a 1st shift position, which is great. The catch is I think I will have to work 7 days a wk!!!! Not sure if its an 8 or 12 hour shift, will find that out 2morrow. I don't want to work all day everyday!!!! I'm hoping its just for a little while, then maybe they go to 5 days a wk, through the wk, not the wkends!!! I know, I'm being a baby about it, but I really don't want to take it if I have to work 7 days a wk!!! I mean who does that??? I also googled hours @ the job, and someone posted back in Mar. 09, that they have to work 7days a wk!!! So it sounds like this is the norm!!! What should I do, take it anyway and hope they cut hours to 5 days, or continue looking, even though I'm on a time clock as far as my unemployment running out? At the moment, I am really more depressed about it than happy, but I know I will absolutely disappoint my husband if I don't take it. Huhhhhhhhh!!!!
Depressed with a bitter/sweet situation.
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Brandi Menifee
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Dear Brandi:
Take the job ! I have been collecting unemployement since August 2010. Recently a bill WAS passed to extend unemployement payments, but only to people who are currently
collecting unemployment payments, not for the ones who have already collected and are currently working or have maxed out their unemployment benefits.
I have a cousin in Minnesota who works 7 days a week and it is hard factory-type work that requires a lot of physical labor. Last year I went to visit some folks up there in Minnesota and she could not even take one day off to visit with me because she is low on the totem pole, as they say, as far as seniority at her company. All of the old-timers at the company have the first choice of any time off, so she is out of luck on ever getting any time off on the days that she chooses.
I would take the job because the job market sucks right now and there are about 5 people out there for every one job opening. There are 15 million people out of work, maybe more than that.
When I hear my friends say how busy they are all of the time at their jobs I am jealous, I wish I was busy doing SOMETHING. I was at my last job for 24 years and boy did that Workforce Reduction lay-off hurt me in many different ways, financially and psychologically.
I actually lost my job in April 2009 and received a great severance and insurance package and then wasted my time doing nothing to improve my life during that severance time. Sure, once the good times were over ( severance and insurance ended ) then I went into panic mode and I am still there. I now have the unemployment payments to pay SOME OF my bills, but supplemented by some retirement money that I HAD to withdraw so that I could survive. I paid a 20% penalty on withdrawing that money AND I won't have that money there when I DO retire. I also have the COBRA Health Insurance now, which is a good offer and a great idea to extend my excellent insurance coverage, but also VERY,VERY expensive. I need health insurance as much as I need a job, so I pay the
high price.
By January 2012 all of my unemployment payments, my COBRA Insurance and my
Retirement savings account money will be gone. I know that is a long 12 months away, but I have talked to folks at the local Workforce Connection Centers ( job help sponsored by the City and the County that is free )and 2
people I talked to had been looking for work for two years. I am 50 years old and age discrimination is at an all time high now. Resume's are thrown in the trash after being reviewed for maybe 20 seconds by Human Resource Departments every day. You cannot go door to door to look for a job anymore, companies just refer you to their websites to fill out applications and send your resume', if, and only if, there is actually a job opening that you may qualify for.
I know this post is long, so I will sign off now. Good luck to you and to anyone out there who is unemployed at this most unfortunate time. This is the worst our economy has been since the Great Depression, I have heard.
Thanks for listening. Lynda Lu.
PS: Still working on getting my new avatar right, ugh.
Take the job ! I have been collecting unemployement since August 2010. Recently a bill WAS passed to extend unemployement payments, but only to people who are currently
collecting unemployment payments, not for the ones who have already collected and are currently working or have maxed out their unemployment benefits.
I have a cousin in Minnesota who works 7 days a week and it is hard factory-type work that requires a lot of physical labor. Last year I went to visit some folks up there in Minnesota and she could not even take one day off to visit with me because she is low on the totem pole, as they say, as far as seniority at her company. All of the old-timers at the company have the first choice of any time off, so she is out of luck on ever getting any time off on the days that she chooses.
I would take the job because the job market sucks right now and there are about 5 people out there for every one job opening. There are 15 million people out of work, maybe more than that.
When I hear my friends say how busy they are all of the time at their jobs I am jealous, I wish I was busy doing SOMETHING. I was at my last job for 24 years and boy did that Workforce Reduction lay-off hurt me in many different ways, financially and psychologically.
I actually lost my job in April 2009 and received a great severance and insurance package and then wasted my time doing nothing to improve my life during that severance time. Sure, once the good times were over ( severance and insurance ended ) then I went into panic mode and I am still there. I now have the unemployment payments to pay SOME OF my bills, but supplemented by some retirement money that I HAD to withdraw so that I could survive. I paid a 20% penalty on withdrawing that money AND I won't have that money there when I DO retire. I also have the COBRA Health Insurance now, which is a good offer and a great idea to extend my excellent insurance coverage, but also VERY,VERY expensive. I need health insurance as much as I need a job, so I pay the
high price.
By January 2012 all of my unemployment payments, my COBRA Insurance and my
Retirement savings account money will be gone. I know that is a long 12 months away, but I have talked to folks at the local Workforce Connection Centers ( job help sponsored by the City and the County that is free )and 2
people I talked to had been looking for work for two years. I am 50 years old and age discrimination is at an all time high now. Resume's are thrown in the trash after being reviewed for maybe 20 seconds by Human Resource Departments every day. You cannot go door to door to look for a job anymore, companies just refer you to their websites to fill out applications and send your resume', if, and only if, there is actually a job opening that you may qualify for.
I know this post is long, so I will sign off now. Good luck to you and to anyone out there who is unemployed at this most unfortunate time. This is the worst our economy has been since the Great Depression, I have heard.
Thanks for listening. Lynda Lu.
PS: Still working on getting my new avatar right, ugh.
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Brandi Menifee
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Thx Lynda, I really appreciate ur comments. I understand where u are coming 4rm, i DO. I can't explain my depression that has settled over me, since I got hired somewhere! I go to sign paper work 2day, and take a drug test, then I start on Friday. Regardless of how i feel, I am gonna take the job, I have two kids, and I am married. My husband takes care of us well, and as best he can, but I never wanted him 2 have to do it alone. I guess I have just been spoiled this past year in a half, not working, only having to worry about my carpyment, and smaller bills, cuz my husband pays the bigger bills since I haven't had a job, and most of all shopping!!! Now that I finally get a job, all that free time is gonna be gone, and I guess thats what I'm most bummed about. When I worked for two months a few months ago, I worked only 3days a wk, but it was Sat, Sun, and Mon., 12 hr shift, and I hated not being able to be with my family on the wkends, and the work was sooo hard, and stressful. However, I wasn't gonna quit, I knew I couldn't! They fired me, so I went right back to collecting unemployment happily! Now that unemployment is about to be a memory, I really don't have a choice in this situation then to just take this job, whether they work me 7days or 2days, I gotta go. I still hope and pray, I don't have to work 7days a wk, 12 months outta the year, it just doesn't seem right to me. I will find out 2day though when I go and fill out papers for it. I 'm praying God help me to be submissive, and just except, cuz he didn't have to bless me with a job. I know theirs thousands out there who would love to get this opertunity. I'm just an unmotivated, spoiled brat, who needs to suck it up, and get over herself!!! Thx again though for the feedback! God Bless You!!!
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Brandi, look at it this way: there is dignity in work. Any work, no matter how menial, gives you dignity. When you work, you create wealth not just for yourself, but for society as a whole, even if it is just a little at a time. Work hard, and make that part of who you are. You work for the honor of working, regardless of the working conditions or the attitude of the people you happen to work for. It is a blessing to work, and by working you are passing that blessing on to the rest of society. Many people cannot work due to disabilities or illness. They need contributors to society to help them through. By working, you are a contributor. You help everyone indirectly by working, especially those who cannot help themselves. Therein lies the dignity of work.
Brandi, look at it this way: there is dignity in work. Any work, no matter how menial, gives you dignity. When you work, you create wealth not just for yourself, but for society as a whole, even if it is just a little at a time. Work hard, and make that part of who you are. You work for the honor of working, regardless of the working conditions or the attitude of the people you happen to work for. It is a blessing to work, and by working you are passing that blessing on to the rest of society. Many people cannot work due to disabilities or illness. They need contributors to society to help them through. By working, you are a contributor. You help everyone indirectly by working, especially those who cannot help themselves. Therein lies the dignity of work.