Washington state pays $527 a week in unemployment benefits?
So, 30 months (130 weeks) of unemployment at $527 per week = $68,510 paid out.
That is outrageous!
"Human kindness is overflowing!"
So, some liberal, Bush-bashing book critic has been out of work for the duration of the Obama presidency. Hard Cheese! Just say thank you for the 2.5 year free ride and go flip some burgers.
When all else fails lower your standards-bumper sticker
I understand, I really do. I’ve been looking for a writing job for years. But having no actual writing skills makes potential employers very hesitant to hire me. They keep saying, “No skills? Go work for a newspaper!!”.
What to do, what to do.
My sister-in-law graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Engineering from a great public engineering school and has had 1 interview in 2 years.
She doesn’t get an unemployment check because she was in school. Only 1 of 50 of her cohort has gotten a job in engineering since graduation.
So boo-hoo for the writer.
My brother... had been unemployed for a very very long time. I’ve bailed him out for about 8k already. Single, no savings. He just got a position with a local college in admissions and had to have some strings pulled for that. He said he tried grocery stores, retail, anything...he was college educated and over qualified.
I am not sticking up for him because he created his situation and he knows it. (he’s had 6 jobs in 14 yrs) BUT it is tough.
In all that time this writer didn’t write a book? Create a proofreading or transcription business?Get a welder’s license? Open a hot dog stand? Why not?
I have noticed that stores are even starting to send "real" mail advertisements with coupons and lots of items on sale. They are hurting for business. The irony is that the post office is nearly bankrupt (Severe Pension-itis) so the ads are arriving after the sales are over. Fruitless efforts and a waste of money for the stores.
I received two clothing catalogs in the mail this week. Out of hundreds of items, I could find only one that was MADE IN THE U.S.A., and that was a pair of socks for six bucks, available in three colors. Every single other item had the word Imported at the end of its description.
Yesterday, I passed a Peets coffee shop advertising a “job fair” this Saturday for a n assistant mgr, and a manager, which told me they expected dozens of applicants. Across town a Jewish deli was advertising for a samwich maker. A headhunter left me an urgent message and sent a frantic e-mail about a job he had for which I was clearly not qualified (and too old to boot.) That’s the fracking reality out there. Service jobs serving the lucky to be employed.
Article’s author is manufacturing drama...these days, things like UI payments are made by direct deposit to an existing account or deposited onto a prepaid debit card... checks are outmoded.
How many here remember how we urged the Bush administration and Congress to act in the face of U.S. corporations exporting jobs to India and China. Nothing was ever done, except the H1B visa limits were repeatedly raised.
I know many software professionals who lost their jobs to Bangalore Indians.
Bush’s fault? You betcha!
WTF?
If you can stand reading the comments there, poster “Dr. Steve” will give you second thoughts about ever seeking Medical Attention. The guy is either a fraud or he writes his own Prescriptions.
Now I'll be jumping in the shower to get the “Atlantic” off.
Getting paid to write?
The internet has made everybody a published author.
If everybody is an author, one cannot expect much pay, if any.
Adapt to survive, in this changed paradigm.
Like doing something which fewer people can do.