Today is my first day as a full-time student in the Industrial Arts. My schedule is not at all grueling, but it is inconvenient for blogging. Because of this, I will be posting the evening prior for a while to see how it goes.
On a side note, I am being told by the liaison between the school and the state that I could be denied the ability to attend school and collect my unemployment benefits. For no reason, whatsoever. They could send me a letter telling me that I have to give up the $3K I’ve got invested so far in tuition, books and equipment and be forced to continue a job search with no explanation given and no ability to appeal.
She won’t give me odds either way, but says that she has seen it happen. Don’t worry, I have a Plan B (and C and D and so on) and I think you all might like that plan even better than my Plan A.
Those twenty plus years of having unemployment insurance taken out of my paycheck against my will and I still have to press one for English and ask pretty please to use this opportunity to try and better myself.
Damn, I need to start a revolution.
UPDATE: As Toastrider put it:
What.
No, seriously. I have absolutely no comprehension as to why this kind of mechanism would be in place, save to dick with people.
He has struck upon the main reason for this process with a two-ton heavy thing.
You get one chance to fill out your paperwork properly. If you do not check the boxes off perfectly and beg “pretty please” over the eight pages, per my expert, you will very likely be denied. There are questions that require essay style answers wherein you state that if they deny you that you will immediately quit school and take any menial job offered to you. And then at the end you sign under threat of perjury that all of your answers are true to the best of your knowledge.
The bureaucrats like to be reminded that they have power and it is processes like this that make them damp in their naughty place.
There is a reason Douglas Adams’ Vogons were funny. Because there were a portrayal of people who exist to make sure you check all the right boxes and grovel.
Also, it is good to remember that when you voluntarily give up your earned wages to the government’s Unemployment Insurance system so that you can legally hold a job in the first place, the government considers those funds as theirs and does stupid things with them such as hand them out to people whom they know have not been in the country for more than a few months and so have not contributed into the system but now get to make a withdrawal “for the children”. And then when the system’s funds run low, they get to tell you how much more you will be permitted to give them for this privilege.
