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Are you unemployed? Let's talk about our hirings firings job hunts and lazy "I qualified for unemployment and it pays my bills so gently caress it I'm not wearing pants for 3 months" stories. Here's mine: I was hired by a logging company to train to be their new warehouse manager. After about 2 months they inform me that the current office manager is going to be the warehouse manager once the current warehouse manager retires. I ask if it's something I'm doing/not doing and they tell me I'm doing a good job. I ask around and the current shop lead tells me that before I got hired, everyone was out at a bar (small company) and the president told everyone that they'd be looking for someone to replace the warehouse manager when they retire. Apparently, the office manager threw a huge fit since she'd been basically training to take over that position for a year or so already. The Shop lead also told me that they're paying me more than they've ever paid anyone to do my job. 2 months later, I am told I"ll be let go. The reason they gave me was that "I wasn't a good fit" and that " I was going a great job". I filed for unemployment and the behest of my friends/family. and I QUALIFIED! after doing the math on what I'm NOT paying by staying home (gas/car wear & tear/ child care) turns out, it only costs me like, $25 a week to not have to work. So gently caress it. I'm taking 4 months off, maybe more? WHO KNOWS?! Share your jobless stories! or talk about what it's like to live @ ur mom's! or mock the chronically unhirable!
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i'm indefinitely jobless until next summer and living off $600 i have saved up while i'm at college
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Aug 26, 2015 18:32
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cool story i didnt read lol gently caress you poor
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Aug 26, 2015 18:32
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im gonna get hired soon being unemployed kicks rear end
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Aug 26, 2015 18:32
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I clicked this thread and "rock bottom" started on my playlist thanks for reading
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Aug 26, 2015 18:33
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i've been fired a couple of times, but i got jobs afterwards. i'm working right now. hang in there baby. peace.
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az posted:I clicked this thread and "rock bottom" started on my playlist thanks for reading
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I'm half way to retirement in my current job. 15 years, I've had to sweat through some lay offs but I survived each one. I've got a good retirement plan, great benefits and I actually enjoy my job and the people I work with. I'm one of the lucky ones.
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I want to quit my job and live in a tent underneath the interstate.
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having nothing to do sounds great until you try it. enjoy 4 months of depression and lethargy op
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symbolic posted:UFO's "Rock Bottom"? its a p good song
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az posted:its a p good song
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symbolic posted:UFO is a p good band good luck in your conquest of unemploymentude brother
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az posted:good luck in your conquest of unemploymentude brother
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Aug 26, 2015 18:42
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I'm probably going to get fired from my job soon. I keep missing days.
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Mad Monk posted:I'm half way to retirement in my current job. 15 years, I've had to sweat through some lay offs but I survived each one. I've got a good retirement plan, great benefits and I actually enjoy my job and the people I work with. I'm one of the lucky ones. Congrats dude! I super glad things a panning out! Pictured: My retirement plan. 
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Aug 26, 2015 18:44
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I hope youre talking about suicide cause if you shoot up your old job I dont want to get my good username dragged through the news cnn reports that the deranged gunman went as trollogist on a webzone called something awful???
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I spent almost the entirety of last year unemployed. I got up at noon every day, went to the gym and did whatever I wanted. Regular exercise helps a lot with staving off the misery from slowly bleeding to death financially. I wound up running out of money and my EI ran out, so I had to leave the province. Fortunately I got a job about a week after I rolled town. But there's always that looming fear that this time on EI is going to be the time that finally ruins you.
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how does unemployment work? does anybody get it who was fired? is it the same amount of money as you were making or some like minimum wage bs? ive been working for 12 years now and I've never been fired because im a good employee
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congratulations!!!!!
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Mad Monk posted:I'm half way to retirement in my current job. 15 years, I've had to sweat through some lay offs but I survived each one. I've got a good retirement plan, great benefits and I actually enjoy my job and the people I work with. I'm one of the lucky ones. Bravo Mad Monk. Living well is the best revenge. State employee & never been laid off in 20 yrs. Overtime is insane. I have co-workers making over 45%+ their salary in OT so far this year. I routinely get mandated for overtime about 2-3x a week. Instead of being stupid with my money, my cars are almost paid off, my insurance is taken care of for the year & I've increased by differed comp. contributions up to 21%. I have less than 5yrs to go till retirement if I choose to, If I stay an additional 5yr I'll increase my pension by another 10%. I'm #3 in seniority at my place & before I get within sniffing distance of lay-offs they'll have to let go of every swinging dick under me (almost 30+guys). But how is that even possible? Because of UNION POWAH! Suck it free market douchbags.
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GORILLA BASTARD posted:State employee & never been laid off in 20 yrs. Overtime is insane. I have co-workers making over 45%+ their salary in OT so far this year. I routinely get mandated for overtime about 2-3x a week. Instead of being stupid with my money, my cars are almost paid off, my insurance is taken care of for the year & I've increased by differed comp. contributions up to 21%.  Work for the state as well but for a university and we don't have budget for overtime but I earn more vacation time than I could ever possibly use in a year.
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Just got my masters in journalism. Can't wait to make six figures.
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I'm being made redundant in the next 6-9 months. I will look forward to up to six months of JSA (although I think I will probably have a job lined up by then anyway).
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I was out of work for a year when the recession hit (I work in IT). Unemployment in Ohio is a joke, they don't pay enough to live on unless you plan on not paying for a home. I've now been at a job for 5+ years .. which is the longest I ever have been. I wish you the best sir goon.
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Trollologist posted:after doing the math on what I'm NOT paying by staying home (gas/car wear & tear/ child care) turns out, it only costs me like, $25 a week to not have to work. So gently caress it. I'm taking 4 months off, maybe more? WHO KNOWS?! Are you just going to sit around your house for four months?
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My Q-Face posted:Are you just going to sit around your house for four months? He already said thats the plan poo poo lord learn to read
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Aug 26, 2015 19:57
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u got laid off not fired
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bossy lady posted:Just got my masters in journalism. Can't wait to make six figures.
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bossy lady posted:Just got my masters in journalism. Can't wait to make six figures. There's a, uh, job opening in Virginia 
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I am my own employer. I make my own times, my own plans
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i rob people
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Mad Monk posted:There's a, uh, job opening in Virginia
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I wish I was "got fired."
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My Q-Face posted:Are you just going to sit around your house for four months? Basically. I bought a soldering iron for some small projects I have been working on. And I plan to have strict exercise plan of doing the occasional sit up to stick to.
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I quit my job a year ago. It was the best thing I ever did. I'd have to be starving to even think about getting another job and even then I'd probably just root around for berries and poo poo instead. E: vvvvvvv good eating on blackberries in the summer too Saint Isaias Boner fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 20:20
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If you run out of food OP you can always eat nettles, ground elder, plantain and dandelions
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OP, deer is also plentiful in a lot of US regions and it tastes pretty good. it's also a lean meat which will help you with your gainz from all that working out you will do
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What about the movie where Tom hanks lived at the airport? You could do that
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I'm burnt out af
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