Annelid's blog: "Ramblings,thoughts and assorted stuff"

Sigh. That pretty much sums up my feelings right about now. Let me backtrack a bit. I'm currently unemployed. I used to work in the I.T. Industry but whatever, I'm not working now. I've applied everywhere from Office Depot to Game Stop and nothing. Fill out inane application and bring it in, make some small talk with the person on the other side of the counter and nothing. I go back in a day or 2 to check out the status of the fore mentioned application and get the proverbial deer in the headlights look. Fine. So I was on unemployment but that ran out. I get a letter *mind you this is from a out of state claim*saying that the president signed into order a extentsion on claims. Fine, works (no pun intended) for me. I go online and procede to make my claim. But WAIT, they say my pin is invalid. Ok, now what? Call our “ easy call “ number to change it. Fair enough...... I've been trying to get a hold of U.E. Since 9 am ( it's now 11:08 am est) and the place is in a central time zone. All I get is 2 rings and then the system hangs up on me. Great....just....great. Then I read this article : http://nyctheblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/visiting-department-of-labor-on-125th.html Wow,just, wow. I can relate to pretty much everything in that article. All I can say is, pray that you don't get laid off or loose your job. Unemployment is a sad thing and trying to get any benefits is like trying to find the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the none existent Rainbow. Sigh / sigh and sigh.