MY JOB SUCKS...

**MY JOB SUCKS... -** 10-10-2002, 06:05 PM

Rules are rules but...

About an hour ago, I was at the counter of our information window. A young lady had filed for unemployment and for whatever reason she hasnt been paid for 3 weeks. She's currently on the streets, or homeless (she came in with someone with a beatup truck, who didn't seem overly concerned, but whatever hes getting sex so what does he care right), and is more than likely a runaway at 19.

Anywho, she didnt have a claim form to resubmit for monies, and was wondering why she wasn't getting her check. You could tell she did drugs but she was lucid despite being shaky (maybe from malnutrition). She was getting frustrated because (not suprisingly) she wasn't getting the information she wanted from a rep who more than likely just gave her some generic information. I spoke with her, and get a rep to actually sit down with her and talk to her.

This didn't go well either, and the girl started to break down and cry. She then told the rep who was helping her...

"You could have saved my life...remember my face, you're going to see it every night in your nightmares after I hurt myself".

Then left in horrid tears. They stayed in the beatup truck in the parking lot for about 30 minutes, and I had out security watch them both.

Anyway, yea I hate my job sometimes.

ninty · 10-10-2002, 06:12 PM

Thats kinda sad.

What city is this in?

10-10-2002, 06:28 PM

CALIFORNIA.

ninty · 10-10-2002, 06:29 PM

The City of California. Sounds beautiful.

Miscguy · 10-10-2002, 06:37 PM

What is your job exactally? Sounds like it blows.

con Brio · 10-10-2002, 07:10 PM

what's your job?

Arkan · 10-10-2002, 07:15 PM

Tell her to spend her drug money on food instead!! I have no sympathy for people like that. She should rob a bank, that way, if she gets away with it, she can eat.....and if she gets caught, she'll have a roof over her head with 3 meals a day!! Fucking losers!!

Blitz-krieg · 10-10-2002, 07:23 PM

Yeah, what kind of job do u have Mr. Special Ed? it seems like ur... flamethrower:

Vance · 10-10-2002, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ninty9

The City of California. Sounds beautiful.

lmao

Sicilian_Summers · 10-10-2002, 07:45 PM

It's a shame how reality can be sometimes.. or, however you choose to define it.

I hope you don't encounter any more things in the work place that disappoint or put you in a somber mood, Ed.

**Re: MY JOB SUCKS... -** 10-10-2002, 08:00 PM

[quote="MR. SPECIAL ED":c3a8a]Rules are rules but...

"You could have saved my life...remember my face, you're going to see it every night in your nightmares after I hurt myself".[/quote:c3a8a]

ha that sounded like one of the things that eminem said in his song.

10-10-2002, 08:29 PM

I work in an unemployment office...which sucks because people dont ACTUALLY get checks from us. We just assist people with the "job search" portion requirement of receiving unemployment. Which means, as soon as she said word one about her check, I knew she was gonna go away without shit.

As far as ARKAN is concerned, I only SAID she looked like she was coming down. She was lucid. Those shakes can EASILY come from malnutrition and the like.

SOrry to say, but in this day and age a will and a desire and an ability to work do NOT garuantee employment. Every day I see a Bachelored fellow come through my office, and there isn't shit he's doing wrong, these are just the breaks. I am not for enabling a nation to sit on its ass, I am however a little upset that this girl will probably go back on the street and do what she HAS to do to survive. All because we have to follow rules.

Ahhhh - a lil clarification. The reason she cant get money is because presently her case is being investigated (which can take DAYS and weeks) and until then she has shit to do but wait. Oh, well back track her pay, but by then -

Well who knows.

All I can say is for those who think things are really THAT black and white, pray you never EVER find yourself in that position.

Innoxx · 10-10-2002, 08:44 PM

Yeah, I hate the state our laws and such are in, soooo much red tape. Same thing goes up here you want something from the gov't it's a long wait. Same in hospitals you have to wait so long to get treated they don't care if your bowels are hanging out..... take a number and sit down. Like this guy got wrongfully accused of killing a 11 year old girl, he got 40 years in prison, they then proved that he didn't do it and they just let him out on his 34th year with NO compensation whatsoever, just a big SORRY! I FUCKED UP! from the gov't and off he goes, a 70 year old man, with basically nothing. It's not like the gov't doesn't have any money, it's just all the red tape can be misleading, and some dirty fucking politician may "accidentally" transfer money into this bank account in the cayman islands.

BallisticWookie · 10-10-2002, 09:04 PM

I've been in the "unemployment line" more times than I like to count. It's hard and really destroys those last threads of confidence you have in yourself. Depression comes pretty easy when your in that situation..I know, I lived it for about 2 years, and it seems she is neck deep in it.

Thankfully, I have fantastic parents who really helped me through it, and friends who know how to "turn that frown upside down". I've been lucky to have been blessed with the recent luck I have had. Great job, great boss, and great workmates who make going to work not a chore but a blessing. It's so good I even give up an hour at the end of my shift to give the other guys a hand getting stock out and marking off incoming merchandise. I'm completely commited and dedicated ( probably a workaholic too wink: ), and I wish more people out there could find that same sort of luck I've had.

Dont take what she said to heart Ed, coming from personal experience (not mine, but people I once considered friends), those kind of people play on you like fucking vultures and use the money they get for alcohol or drugs. Maybe her situation is dire. maybe she is in real trouble, but if you have rules to follow there's nothing more you can do. It's not worth getting turned inside out by it. Leave you're work at work, dont take it home with you.

BallisticWookie · 10-10-2002, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Innoxx

Yeah, I hate the state our laws and such are in, soooo much red tape. Same thing goes up here you want something from the gov't it's a long wait. Same in hospitals you have to wait so long to get treated they don't care if your bowels are hanging out..... take a number and sit down. Like this guy got wrongfully accused of killing a 11 year old girl, he got 40 years in prison, they then proved that he didn't do it and they just let him out on his 34th year with NO compensation whatsoever, just a big SORRY! I FUCKED UP! from the gov't and off he goes, a 70 year old man, with basically nothing. It's not like the gov't doesn't have any money, it's just all the red tape can be misleading, and some dirty fucking politician may "accidentally" transfer money into this bank account in the cayman islands.

Seems to me that poor bastard who was jailed could sue the government for defamtion of character and unlwful imprisonment. I hope he does, and I hope he guts the fucking shit out of the treasury department. Fucking assholes.