This is a journal, right?

[aearwen2]

This is supposed to be a journal, right? I might as well use it as one and separate out my personal yammerings from my posting of my fanfic. So this will be the personal stuff post for the week

Comments

[surgicalsteel]

The one thing I've learned about bureaucrats paying out amny sort of benefit - if they can fins a way to challenge it, they will. I had to collec unemployment for a few months a couple of years ago and had to jump through a bunch of hoops and humiliate myself to even get the benefit started - and then present myself about once a month with detailed logs of what I'd been doing in my job search or face losing my benefits.

Bureaucrats will do everything possible to not pay you.

[aearwen2]

Oh yea.

While Hubby was on State Disability, they would pay for about six weeks, and then some tin-Jesus bureaucrat would decide "you must be better now," cut off the benefits, and force Hubby to go back to his doctor for them to send in a note that said, "No, he STILL suffers from HBP, diabetes, and heart disease. Put him BACK!"

I'm hoping we don't have the same crud to go thru now that he was accepted as disabled by Social Security...

Then again, when speaking of the unemployment benefits, the State of California is almost (if not completely now) out of money. And one simply canNOT wring blood from a turnip.

[galantha_nivala]

What was it your husband did? I want to make sure my kids don't go into that field.

There are way too many employers who are quite content to suck their employees completely dry and then kick them to the curb.

The way bureaucrats try to deny benefits you'd think the money was coming out of their own pockets. Many of them are decent, hard-working people, but there are a few who seem to take delight in the power they have and watching people humiliate themselves.

Gardening! I love gardening. I'll bet you can grow a lot of wonderful plants. *tries not to be jealous. fails*

[ruger2]

I've been on unemployment, and the bureaucracy sucks, so I hope SS disability goes smoothly for your husband, knock wood. My son has been out of a job for a year, here, as a h.s. band teacher, and is looking at a career change because of the state of public education - it sucks! as far as student accountability and parental dodging of responsibility -- but! I wish your children well with their job hunting. Sounds like the gardening and yardwork are good therapy for your husband!