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View submission: Tuesday Check In: How's Everybody's Mental Health?
I've been unemployed for a month and today I woke up to an email from the state saying "NOTICE OF ELIGIBILITY INVESTIGATION." So I leapt up from my bed and loaded their janky, broken website trying to figure out what I screwed up and if I was going to get booted off of unemployment.
After loading for several minutes, the notice came up and it said people have to attend standard retraining seminars and one is coming up at the end of the month. Nowhere in the message does it even mention eligibility, let alone an "investigation." The contact for same has a phone number with the state, but didn't bother to set up a voicemail, a profile on the state web site, an outline for the class, or an email. Ironically, I worked in communications and could have rewritten this whole message and set the guy up with working contact information inside of 45 minutes.
I have paid into UI for more than 20 years of consistent, uninterrupted employment, only to have the state call me a dirtbag three weeks into a job hunt, two of which were over the holidays.
Our relationship to work in this country is fucked. The people running these departments are cruel, misanthropic bastards who have careers sponging off of people they will later shame when they try to access the services they provide.
I have two job interviews on Thursday. I don't have high expectations for them, but I'm landing interviews while my friends who are in the same boat as me are struggling. I thought this whole experience would send me spiraling, but I'm not depressed, I'm extremely pissed off. My first act once I land steady employment is to unionize the fucker and continue making the boss' lives a living hell.
Comment by fperrine at 14/01/2025 at 18:48 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Power to you. I was unemployed for a stretch, being laid off in early 2023 and pulling the job I currently have in summer 2024. It is really a serious moment of distress that it does not have to be. I was able to make it work, but not everybody is so lucky. I wish you luck in the interviews.