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“No direct experience of UI. I was unemployed for a few months a couple of years ago, but wasn’t claiming UI as it had to be structured as a ‘resignation’.”
YEah, that’s slimy and it’s to avoid the employer having to pay UI for you. Another fact that probably nobody knows is that UI is like car insurance. An employer who never lays anyone off pays a much lower rate than one who does.
holy crap i just read somewhere that there is some van going around the city harvesting peoples organs!!! be careful dont get into any strange vans if you dont want your kidneys stolen!!
*rob*
*rob*
…you must have gotten that article all mixed up.
Are you sure it doesn’t say :
There’s a City Harvest van going around picking up
unused organ meat?
I’m reading a memoir entitled ‘Breaking Night’ by a white girl who grew up in the South Bronx to a pair of crackhead parents with AIDS. She started looking for work at the age of nine, and made quite a few bucks making tips in grocery stores and gas stations. That’s where I am up to, supposedly she got into Harvard.
denton- don’t know what to tell you. Everyplace I ever worked out took out unempl;oyment to go in part toward it. I know the employer paid part of it too. There were also some jobs where I was hired as a freelancer with taxes taken out as well. I’m too busy at the moment to go back into my old paper and dig out the stubs- its all water under the bridge.
What frightens me and upsets me the ost is that this is the second time in my life that I am on the verge of losing everything- the last time was when I had all those severe medical problems and then the divorce. I doubt I will survive to suffer this a 3rd time. And this time around if I can’t keep up, it also affects my landlord in a big way.
Gem, you chances of getting hired are better because you’er younger, and you haven’t been unemployed a long. Truthfully i don’t know what the answer is but anyone who thinks the cost of keeping people on unemployment is more expensive that cutting them off and casting them to the winds is sadly mistaken.
That makes sense denton, I was probably merging the idea ir UI with social security in my head.
No direct experience of UI. I was unemployed for a few months a couple of years ago, but wasn’t claiming UI as it had to be structured as a ‘resignation’. Then I looked at the rules when I thought I was going to be let go from my last job but don’t remember the detail (except the $405 part).
“be careful dont get into any strange vans if you dont want your kidneys stolen!!”
This brings to mind those vans that I see up and down Flatbush Ave (and I’m assuming other large streets) that honk at the bus stop to pick up passengers. I have to admit I’ve been tempted to get in when impatiently waiting for a bus and there are no taxis in sight, but I won’t do it when I’m with The Champs. Anyone ever used one?
“No direct experience of UI. I was unemployed for a few months a couple of years ago, but wasn’t claiming UI as it had to be structured as a ‘resignation’.”
YEah, that’s slimy and it’s to avoid the employer having to pay UI for you. Another fact that probably nobody knows is that UI is like car insurance. An employer who never lays anyone off pays a much lower rate than one who does.
By Butterfly on October 25, 2010 3:40 PM
holy crap i just read somewhere that there is some van going around the city harvesting peoples organs!!! be careful dont get into any strange vans if you dont want your kidneys stolen!!
*rob*
*rob*
…you must have gotten that article all mixed up.
Are you sure it doesn’t say :
There’s a City Harvest van going around picking up
unused organ meat?
Biffy – I tried one rainy day but the stupid van was full so I ended up waiting for regular MTA anyway.
Yeah DH but no one likes a loser.
“If you want to get technical, employees do pay for that benefit via lower wages.”
I’m aware of that argument, Ishtar. No doubt. But that’s a theory and I’m trying to deal in facts.
I’m reading a memoir entitled ‘Breaking Night’ by a white girl who grew up in the South Bronx to a pair of crackhead parents with AIDS. She started looking for work at the age of nine, and made quite a few bucks making tips in grocery stores and gas stations. That’s where I am up to, supposedly she got into Harvard.
denton- don’t know what to tell you. Everyplace I ever worked out took out unempl;oyment to go in part toward it. I know the employer paid part of it too. There were also some jobs where I was hired as a freelancer with taxes taken out as well. I’m too busy at the moment to go back into my old paper and dig out the stubs- its all water under the bridge.
What frightens me and upsets me the ost is that this is the second time in my life that I am on the verge of losing everything- the last time was when I had all those severe medical problems and then the divorce. I doubt I will survive to suffer this a 3rd time. And this time around if I can’t keep up, it also affects my landlord in a big way.
Gem, you chances of getting hired are better because you’er younger, and you haven’t been unemployed a long. Truthfully i don’t know what the answer is but anyone who thinks the cost of keeping people on unemployment is more expensive that cutting them off and casting them to the winds is sadly mistaken.
That makes sense denton, I was probably merging the idea ir UI with social security in my head.
No direct experience of UI. I was unemployed for a few months a couple of years ago, but wasn’t claiming UI as it had to be structured as a ‘resignation’. Then I looked at the rules when I thought I was going to be let go from my last job but don’t remember the detail (except the $405 part).
“be careful dont get into any strange vans if you dont want your kidneys stolen!!”
This brings to mind those vans that I see up and down Flatbush Ave (and I’m assuming other large streets) that honk at the bus stop to pick up passengers. I have to admit I’ve been tempted to get in when impatiently waiting for a bus and there are no taxis in sight, but I won’t do it when I’m with The Champs. Anyone ever used one?