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unpacked robinhood posted:As in poo poo's expensive or you need extra insulation and bear management gear ? poo poo's expensive. Alaska doesn't have a lot in the way of factories and farms so basically everything you buy has to be shipped in from somewhere else. They have like one highway connecting them to the rest of the continent and it involves going through hundreds of miles of the part of Canada nobody lives in. Shipping by air is expensive and shipping by boat means the boat owner is sending a fleet to Anchorage instead of somewhere more profitable like Seattle or LA. There's also a bunch of legal knots surrounding ocean shipping like its illegal for non-American ships to go between two American ports directly and 90% of the cargo ships today are registered to low-tax low-regulation open-registry countries like Liberia, Malta, and Panama. Panama has a bigger shipping fleet than China and the US combined because of this BS. That means that shipping from say, Seattle to Anchorage requires you to either use an American ship which are few in number and expensive because the sailors are unionized and get a lot of benefits guaranteed by law or your standard Panamaian ship staffed by under-paid Filipino and Chinese peasants has to make a stop they don't need to make in Vancouver. TL;DR Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico are in the middle of nowhere so its expensive to ship to them, those costs are passed on to customers, giving them exemptions to the Jones act would lower their CoL but screw over American workers and help big shipping companies exploit third-world peasants far more than it would help people in any of those territories 
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:poo poo's expensive. Alaska doesn't have a lot in the way of factories and farms so basically everything you buy has to be shipped in from somewhere else. They have like one highway connecting them to the rest of the continent and it involves going through hundreds of miles of the part of Canada nobody lives in. Shipping by air is expensive and shipping by boat means the boat owner is sending a fleet to Anchorage instead of somewhere more profitable like Seattle or LA. Good explanation, thanks. Puerto Rico is actually surrounded by other islands so it's even more absurd. Is it true that non American ships can't even go straight there? I heard they all have to unload their cargo in Tampa or something.
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Got laid off in 08' during the housing crisis. They hired some zero experience idiot in my stead Thankfully I lived frugally and had no car payments or debts over my head, and I split rent with roomies. Money was a little tight but I was fine. Collected unemployment, spent 6 months playin video games and toking it up, partying with friends, taking walks around town and enjoying myself. Didn't do any of the required stuff for unemployment. Applied to like one job but got no callbacks. Then I got a letter asking to show proof that I had been looking for a job, or I was liable to repay. poo poo After stressing a day, I slept on it. Next day my previous employer called me and rehired me and I informed the unemployment dudes that I had just got hired which seemed to satisfy them. Unemployment advice: gently caress around, get free gov't cheddar, torch blunts and wait for them to come crawling back to you.
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Thesaurus posted:Good explanation, thanks. That is not true. Any non-American ship can go to Puerto Rico as long as they're coming from a foreign port and going to a foreign port after. When you go between two ports in different countries you're governed by International law since its an international trip. Usually that means you abide by the laws of the nation the ship's registered to, along with certain crimes which are considered to be universal jurisdiction and any country can enforce even in international territory like Piracy. When you go between two ports in the same country, even if you cross international waters to do it, its considered a domestic trip and you're governed by the laws of that country. This is called cabotage, usually a country only allows ships belonging to their nation in, but if they choose not to exercise that right, that's their business. America actually has very strict cabotage laws not only does it need to be US registered but it needs to have come from a US shipyard, the owners need to be US citizens, and the crew needs to be US citizens or Green Card holders. Tampa to Puerto Rico is domestic so only American ships can make it.The reason that they offload in Tampa or Miami would be because a shipping company that needs to get some cargo from, for example, the same factory in China, to both Florida and PR has three options. A. Separate the cargo and send two different fully staffed Liberian ships with your third-world working-for-peanuts crew to make the trip. One to Tampa, one to Puerto Rico. B. Get a single expensive American ship with its needy unionized workers who want things like "a living wage" and "benefits" to go to Tampa and then Puerto Rico in one trip. C. Send a single Liberian ship with your oh-so-exploitable oh-so-cheap foreign workers to Tampa which is 95% of the journey, have an expensive American ship do the remaining 5% and then make up the extra cost by charging the Puerto Ricans extra. The rules about cabotage and two international ports vs. domestic also apply to air travel. That's why you can take Iceland Air or Royal Air Maroc (which is Moroccan) from New York to Paris but if you want to fly from La Guardia to LAX you're limited to Delta, Southwest etc. BIG FLUFFY DOG fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:That is not true. Any non-American ship can go to Puerto Rico as long as they're coming from a foreign port and going to a foreign port after. When you go between two ports in different countries you're governed by International law since its an international trip. Usually that means you abide by the laws of the nation the ship's registered to, along with certain crimes which are considered to be universal jurisdiction and any country can enforce even in international territory like Piracy. Just wanna say an earnest thanks for a great maritime shipping explanation, even if this is the unemployment thread!
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today i had a job interview. about half way through the manager get a texts message so she excuses herself and looks down at it. turns out one of her staff has had some kind of drama meltdown and quit without notice. the manager tells me this, then just looks up and asks me if i can start tomorrow morning 
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Rutibex posted:today i had a job interview. about half way through the manager get a texts message so she excuses herself and looks down at it. turns out one of her staff has had some kind of drama meltdown and quit without notice. the manager tells me this, then just looks up and asks me if i can start tomorrow morning Sounds like a great place to work.
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Rutibex posted:today i had a job interview. about half way through the manager get a texts message so she excuses herself and looks down at it. turns out one of her staff has had some kind of drama meltdown and quit without notice. the manager tells me this, then just looks up and asks me if i can start tomorrow morning What level of experience do you have and kind of job was this/what you're looking for..? I ask as I had a similar situation going my 2nd professional job - I'd had 2.5 years' previous experience with one of the major players in the industry and about 10 min into the interview with the hiring manager at a fairly large and relatively regional company, he verbally offered on the spot with signing bonus. I was tempted because I was unemployed and had just moved to the state but was fortunate I didn't need to take the first job offered. Turns out that unsurprisingly the place was essentially a boiler room who was just looking for bodies, with something like 50% annual attrition and the fact I wouldn't "need as much training" meant I would be put on the floor and expected to be performing ASAP. Bullet dodged. Also anytime I interview now, I ask why this position is now open, even if I might get a less than straightforward answer from the hiring manager (so I'll ask others or request a conversation with a peer) - if it's because the company/division is expanding, that's probably a good sign. If it's because the previous person(s) had a meltdown/got burned out/"didn't fit our culture"/"clashed with management" etc that is a big red flag. So yeah, moral of the story is be wary of easily given job offers IMO.
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sticksy posted:Also anytime I interview now, I ask why this position is now open, even if I might get a less than straightforward answer from the hiring manager (so I'll ask others or request a conversation with a peer) - if it's because the company/division is expanding, that's probably a good sign. If it's because the previous person(s) had a meltdown/got burned out/"didn't fit our culture"/"clashed with management" etc that is a big red flag. Yep, I've been (f)unemployed since January 1 and just turned down a job offer 500 miles away after two terse phone interviews. I've found that Glassdoor and Indeed reviews may help beforehand, especially at a larger organization. In my experience, negative employer reviews have more truth to them than apartment or restaurant ratings.
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I've been unemployed and underemployed for so long I can't wrap my head around the concept of not being on the verge of not having income despite having a steady job. Been hording wages like a dragon and am still terrified of taking a holiday. On the plus side if I lose my job I could probably coast for 6months to a year without income.
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Jul 7, 2019 23:03
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unployment going in to my 19 month. free tax money yummy
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Jul 9, 2019 03:50
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Get a job you deadbeats
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bird with big dick posted:Get a job you deadbeats Make me!
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You Are A Elf posted:in 2008, I quit a soul-crushing job that was super easy and chill, but also boring as gently caress and went nowhere. Went back to school full-time in my early 30s, got a degree in 2012 to find better work, and boy was I loving naive thinking a better job would land in my lap soon. I spent the next year and a half unemployed answering any classified ads online, literally going to places and filling out applications in person, and just all around trying to find work, ANY WORK. I was doing this daily for about the first six months of unemployment, but when no one was answering back, I fell into a deep depression where I just didn't want to "pound the pavement" anymore. This is an awful story, drat dude. Glad you are doing better now but can’t imagine the stress of going through all that.
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OMFG FURRY posted:survived on bread and water while living out of my car America is a first-world country, lol.
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I seem to be on a roll of applying for jobs I'm more than qualified for, getting through interviews and losing to people with political connections but less applicable experience. So I'm stuck with a semi abusive job I hate that has no future or potential to improve my employability and sitting on the edge of 'is being unemployed better than the bullshit I've got?'. Unemployment sucks but this is almost worse in terms of feelings of self worth. On topic, I was unemployed for 6-8 months during an economic downturn. Just sitting around applying for jobs I had no hope of getting over and feeling like poo poo. At least I had time to work out and gently caress around.
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I had to stop reading this thread because I moved to a less populous area at the end of June and was unemployed. The stories here were really stressing me out. I quit a job that paid really well for someone without a degree, and the place I live at now is somewhere I've always wanted to be, but the feeling of not having a job and burning through my savings was hell. Thankfully by the end of July I managed to get a temp gig at the library here before my funds ran out and I was able to just barely be able to cover rent, and now I finally got the news that I landed a full time job in the cannabis industry, which was ultimately the plan. This stint of unemployment reminded me of a few things: 1) Job hunting is so dehumanizing. Modifying your resume and writing a new cover letter for every job, some that you don't even really want, only to have them not call is horrible. I got really far in the process for two jobs only to not make it to the end and that was crushing. 2) The degree requirement is absolutely classist bullshit designed to keep working class folks out of the system as much as possible. I learned that my library assistant job recently had it's requirements relaxed: previously it required a bachelor's degree in library science for part time minimum wage. I felt very lucky to get it, and it was very fulfilling, but the responsibilities absolutely should not require higher education. Most places out here require a degree and it's total horseshit. Thank you all for sharing your stories of unemployment. Although I had to stop reading the thread because it was reminding me of my own troubles, I really appreciate you all being willing to share tales of the hard times. My wife and I now both have full time employment in our dream location with a low cost of living and I finally feel like I'm able to start enjoying being here. The job interview process is awful and I wish the best for any of you who are still looking.
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My job is so demeaning I'm about to quit. They promised me work in my field and a year later have only given me a bullshit assignment which doesn't fit my qualifications and I'm about to lose said qualification to actually do the job they supposedly hired me to do. My best bet is to convince them to lay me off/make me redundant instead of quitting/firing me so I can collect unemployment while a volunteer full time while I hunt for a non-existent job in my field. It's loving embaressing.
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SoR Blaze posted:2) The degree requirement is absolutely classist bullshit designed to keep working class folks out of the system as much as possible. I learned that my library assistant job recently had it's requirements relaxed: previously it required a bachelor's degree in library science for part time minimum wage. I felt very lucky to get it, and it was very fulfilling, but the responsibilities absolutely should not require higher education. Most places out here require a degree and it's total horseshit.  i can't find work as a library assistant and i have a masters degree in library science. working in the library is the easiest best job around, everyone wants to work in the drat library. but those old ladies hold onto their positions with an iron grip
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I know I sound like a dickhead but why do you need a masters degree to organize books and file things according to an existing system? Is the Dewey system that complicated? I'll assume library science is more than that?
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Because so many people have Bachelors now, that instead of it being a hard earned title that made job getting simpler, it just is the new normal for lots of people coming up, and now it doesn't count all that much for poo poo.
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I get that but it was also a ground floor requirement for my visa.
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Outrail posted:I know I sound like a dickhead but why do you need a masters degree to organize books and file things according to an existing system? Is the Dewey system that complicated? I'll assume library science is more than that? you don't, volunteers and minimum wage workers organize the books and refill the copy machines. you need a masters degree to help the person who came into the library looking to do genealogical research on 5 generations of their family, or the person who needs help researching civil codes for their lawsuit, or the person who needs data on the last 10 years of world wide methanol production. at least thats the theory. most people don't need that level of help unless you are working in a big university library
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Gotcha, so really it's a degree/masters in research?
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Grape posted:Because so many people have Bachelors now, that instead of it being a hard earned title that made job getting simpler, it just is the new normal for lots of people coming up, and now it doesn't count all that much for poo poo. Since like a decade before I went to school your BA is basically what used to be a highschool diploma
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The Bramble posted:I got laid off in a way that really destroyed my confidence and left the parking lot of my former job and drove directly home to my parent's house 6 hours away without stopping. I got really drunk with my brother and we went walking in the woods at night where I basically managed to gently caress up my foot as badly as you can without breaking it by tripping over a tire track. They laid me off on the day my health insurance expires and the COBRA rates were exorbitant so I just borrowed a friend's old crutches and tried not to think about it. Bless you & Ms. Bramble In Oct this year I’ll be hitting my 24th year into a 25 year pension for glorious service to the state. The plan is to walk away in Nov 2021 with 51 & 1/2 % pension & power-walk my way into a warm, tax friendly state in the South. That with a grossly over bloated 457 plan SHOULD see me never having to “job” again unless my hobby takes off. Or I get tired of doing nuttin. LULZ. Also, the wife is about 13 yrs younger, so if I have to put her to work... (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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I like to send one application in the morning while improving my CV, then starting noon cook lunch and exercise. Nights and weekends are best spent just relaxing.
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I was unemployed a few months between college, coming home, and realizing a degree in arts was fun, but not a great job earner. But to be blunt, I never went to college for the money. And if we're frank, I'm probably not someone who needed the college path to kick start my career.
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:I like to send one application in the morning while improving my CV, then starting noon cook lunch and exercise. Nights and weekends are best spent just relaxing. Sounds like the whole week is relaxing lmao
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i work construction and get laid off a few times a year. it's pretty rude how they treat you like even to get your benefits they're like "Are you sure you deserve this? Really sure?" even though it comes directly out of your wages you can get up to half of your after-tax weekly income and then they tax it they won't let you collect within a week of filing for benefits in case you get work and yeah whip out the card and listen for the whispers but it's fuckin sweet to have a whole lot of time and a little bit of money so im looking foreward to next time and i've only been working like three months lol
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SpaceAceJase posted:Sounds like the whole week is relaxing lmao Yeah, first time I was unemployed it really got on my nerves and I was high pressure looking for a job 8+ hours per day. Let's just say that it wasn't my cup of tea and I was a wreck. I have then mastered the correct job seeking ways for myself and manage to do do the high pressure stuff for 4 hours a day, five days per week. You seem to be laughing your rear end off at the golden middle path that is filled with moderation and happiness 
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