I think that A: You have a job, and B: Not having a job is your job

Feb 02, 2010 12:49

Today I had to wake up at 7am (yeah, my body was plenty confused) so that I could make an appointment at the unemployment office at 8:30. Even Greta was all "this is not the way things should be," and went back to sleep on the couch as soon as I'd roused her from her bed.
The appointment was really a cattle-call for all the newly unemployed folks in the area. A woman named Irony (she told us to "write legible" on our forms and then powered through a barely intelligible slide show using terrible grammar) babysat us until our one-on-ones, during which we had to prove we had an acceptable resume, and then were set free.
I went next to TD bank on 125th street to cash in the bag of pennies I've been accumulating for the past 4 years. The teller looked at me like I was crazy when I asked for my coin refund in the form of a roll of quarters. Well, I wasn't about to hit for the cycle of disgraced unemployment and take my tenner to Off-Track Betting. I'm using the quarters for laundry, like a responsible citizen.

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