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Originally Posted by wtngpatiently
Thank You, GCharlotte for your comment back to these kind of posts.
I wonder sometimes how many of the folks (who make such flippant comments (here, in the media, and even our own governement) would utterly change their tune if it were they on the receiving end? (And, downsize their housing, in this market!? Tried it, what a joke! As for retraining - ever try to do that with 3 kids to support and a spouse who's a homemaker and hasn't been able to find a job either? I'm overqualified for what I do apply for and education - my degree area - is bleeding employees as bad as everyone else! The comment I get is "Don't even send the resume, we're not looking at anything, even positions that exist now and become vacant." BTW - retraining money got cut in all this too! We won't get the level of help we were promised this semester because WIA is out of funding here at the end of their fiscal year too. Taking out a loan adds insult to injury in this situation. So, no income either way. Find a job indeed - when 400 people show up to apply for 2 jobs at McDonald's?)
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Part of the idea of UI also is to hopefully get you employed in a similar paying job as before. If everyone making $50K picked up a $7.50 job you'd have multiple problems including:
1) An $18K job down from $50K is still pretty grim for that person or family. Sure you might have some money but your problems aren't solved and if you "made more" on UI and could spend that time finding a job that would solve the bigger problems then you should.
2) A hiring manager is going to be apprehensive of someone that used to make $25 per hour now making $7.50. That manager is going to assume the employee is going to bolt as soon as they can which hurts that business.
3) It locks out others from the workforce. Those that are just starting and don't need a lot of money or those that will never make $25 per hour now can't find a job because Mr. Twenty Five has their job.
We shouldn't be bickering about the guidelines. That's philosophical and if you're hear to argue that the unemployed in NC need to be pawns in a political chess match then you already have a prejudiced against UI in general.
All folks are asking for is to be treated fairly based upon a program's guidelines that have already been decided. NO ONE that I can think of would think 20 weeks of EB is a luxury and that there's no worries as long as you start looking by the 18th or 19th week. It's just too scary to be messing around at this point.
But this program having a 2 weeks notice to cut off and all the screw ups from the winter, no one should be playing around on the govco side on this. It's strictly a cluster . . .
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