How soft and scared has our society became ?

[BeAllied]

I don't think you understand how unemployment works or you are too stupid to understand what laid off means.

If you get laid off, you're eligible for unemployment. That's the way it is in every state.

Virginia unemployment money is based on how much you made over the last two years. Any employers you had during that two-year period are partially responsible for payment of the unemployment. Only employers that are exempted are ones that fire you and if the employee left to not work.

I got laid furloughed for a month (then a couple months later laid off). During that furlough, every job I had during the past two years determined my unemployment payment and who pays for the unemployment. Thus, the job I voluntarily left for another job was required to pay into my unemployment. That's how it works in Virginia.

Do I need to explain it to you like you are two? Because clearly explaining it to you like you are five is not working.

You don't seem to understand that you should have stopped receiving unemployment payments once you started working at the new job. You even said it was 4 weeks after you had left when the former employer attempted to challenge it by telling "lies" about you.

Nobody is talking about how your payments were determined or who paid for them. If you were receiving benefits because you were laid off, and then you left for full-time work elsewhere, then you should not have continued to receive unemployment checks while working the new job.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

that’s why i’ll never work at a factory. the school system grooms us for factory work by the time you’re 18 you’re ready to go work in a factory and be used to it.

What in the world kind of school did you go to?

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

You don't seem to understand that you should have stopped receiving unemployment payments once you started working at the new job. You even said it was 4 weeks after you had left when the former employer attempted to challenge it by telling "lies" about you.

Nobody is talking about how your payments were determined or who paid for them. If you were receiving benefits because you were laid off, and then you left for full-time work elsewhere, then you should not have continued to receive unemployment checks while working the new job.

I quit my old job. Started the new one right after I finished working the previous job. Got furloughed. Got unemployment. Returned to the new job. Unemployment stopped. Got laid off. Unemployment resumed. Got another new job. Unemployment stopped.

Do I need to explain it to you like you were just born yesterday? Or did dumbing it down to a one-year-old level get the job done?

 

[bkingUK]

I never had a typing class . My screen is cracked , and Sometimes I double key the space bar causing a period .sometimes I type without my glasses on , and quite frankly you gigantic prick , I don’t care about my punctuation and perfection on a damn message board . So piss off .

Man , a real internet tough guy . You gonna “ throw down” on me , lol .Better do your homework.

Why does @ManitouDan post the exact same way as @yoshukai

 

[yoshukai]

Why does @ManitouDan post the exact same way as @yoshukai

You going to ” throw down “ on both of us at the same time , lol .

 

[bkingUK]

You going to ” throw down “ on both of us at the same time , lol .

Yes . lol ,

 

[yoshukai]

Yes . lol ,

So would that be a “ double throw down “ , lol .

 

[RunninRichie]

What in the world kind of school did you go to?

The US school system is based on a prussian model designed to make factory workers. It’s why a bell dismisses you and why you learn to not talk unless told.

 

[chroix]

Freaking Prussians. Ruin everything.

 

[Tskware]

One thing that's hard to compare regarding inflation is the difference in quality of products. I just bought a slightly used car and it has Bluetooth XM radio heated seats retractable sunroof, in short all the bells and whistles of a nice new car that's way way better than what I drove in the seventies and eighties.

On the other hand, in reply to the poster above about housing, homes in older established neighborhoods that have been there for generations still sell for way more money even adjusted for inflation than they did in the fifties and sixties when they were brand new

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

The US school system is based on a prussian model designed to make factory workers. It’s why a bell dismisses you and why you learn to not talk unless told.

I wouldn’t exactly call that being groomed for factory work.

 

[CB3UK]

One thing that's hard to compare regarding inflation is the difference in quality of products. I just bought a slightly used car and it has Bluetooth XM radio heated seats retractable sunroof, in short all the bells and whistles of a nice new car that's way way better than what I drove in the seventies and eighties.

On the other hand, in reply to the poster above about housing, homes in older established neighborhoods that have been there for generations still sell for way more money even adjusted for inflation than they did in the fifties and sixties when they were brand new

Yep. I was considering selling my house, downsizing and moving to one of those type neighborhoods at the beginning of last year. For the same money I'm paying on my new (within last 15 yrs) almost double sq ft house I could get one of those. So not only would I not have saved any money, I'd just loose half my sq footage. I don't need the space but I'm obviously not going to just downsize if I'm not going to save myself money.

 

[Tinker Dan]

Yep. I was considering selling my house, downsizing and moving to one of those type neighborhoods at the beginning of last year. For the same money I'm paying on my new (within last 15 yrs) almost double sq ft house I could get one of those. So not only would I not have saved any money, I'd just loose half my sq footage. I don't need the space but I'm obviously not going to just downsize if I'm not going to save myself money.

More space = more room for crap I don’t need. Lol.

I learned that lesson the hard way.

Your post made me think of when I decided to downsize. I am still trying to get rid of stuff I don’t need.

 

[CB3UK]

More space = more room for crap I don’t need. Lol.

I learned that lesson the hard way.

Your post made me think of when I decided to downsize. I am still trying to get rid of stuff I don’t need.

I hear ya. I'm definitely not one to be attached to things. I have space I don't need and want to downsize to a smaller house in a more tight knit neighborhood, it just makes no financial sense to do it in the present market like I said. Why pay the same for less and go through all the hassle.

 

[Tinker Dan]

I hear ya. I'm definitely not one to be attached to things. I have space I don't need and want to downsize to a smaller house in a more tight knit neighborhood, it just makes no financial sense to do it in the present market like I said. Why pay the same for less and go through all the hassle.

I agree. Your post made me think of when I moved. I was like WTF???????

Also, I am older now and my daughter will never live in this house. Just easier for an old guy to manage. Plus, when I kick the bucket should be an easy sell for her. Win-win.

 

[BeAllied]

I quit my old job. Started the new one right after I finished working the previous job. Got furloughed. Got unemployment. Returned to the new job. Unemployment stopped. Got laid off. Unemployment resumed. Got another new job. Unemployment stopped.

Do I need to explain it to you like you were just born yesterday? Or did dumbing it down to a one-year-old level get the job done?

Naw, I just hope that you invested your time and earnings while on unemployment into developing skills for yourself, and hopefully that investment will prevent you from needing assistance in the future.

 

[Tskware]

Yep. I was considering selling my house, downsizing and moving to one of those type neighborhoods at the beginning of last year. For the same money I'm paying on my new (within last 15 yrs) almost double sq ft house I could get one of those. So not only would I not have saved any money, I'd just loose half my sq footage. I don't need the space but I'm obviously not going to just downsize if I'm not going to save myself money.

Oh no, you are not even considering the "hidden" cost of the wife factor. We also moved from a large, much newer home, to a smaller, less expensive older home . . . at first. Then, we had to remodel the entire first floor, bathrooms, kitchen, etc. Then later we added a poured concrete and brick screened in porch. Oh, and I forgot the landscaping, which costs an *** load of money.

Can I send you my Venmo account so you can advance me some skrill until next payday?

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

Naw, I just hope that you invested your time and earnings while on unemployment into developing skills for yourself, and hopefully that investment will prevent you from needing assistance in the future.

After I got laid off I was luckily only unemployed for two weeks. Didn’t help that I only got a three days notice that I was being laid off so I didn’t have much choice on the whole being unemployed thing. I only got a two-days notice when I got furloughed.

Both times the owner said she hoped the advance notice would help with finding another job before I was cut off. I don’t think she has ever had to actually earn a job (her parents hired her to the company straight out of college) if she thought that little notice would help prevent me from landing on the unemployment line.