Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-03-10 11:10 AM
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I got offered a Census job--and I rejected it. Here's why.
I've been out of work since July and have been on unemployment since then. For more than 20 years, I have always worked in an office. I know how to use both Macs and PCs. I know how to file and sort, etc. I took the Census exam and passed with a perfect score--and, of course, indicated exactly the type of work experience I have. I also live in a very economically depressed neighborhood with a very high rate of poverty and a low level of education; I'm doubtless one of the few residents who has any kind of college education at all, and I have a master's degree. You'd think they'd be on the phone to me pronto, offering me an office job, right?
Well, I got called just this morning and offered a job as an enumerator--yeah, going door to door. The job would pay $15.25 per hour, and I'd be working 30 hours a week for 6 to 8 weeks. They wanted to know right away whether I'd take it. No time to decide.
I had to say no. This job would pay me little more than I am currently getting every week in my unemployment check--and it would last only 6 to 8 weeks, and at the end of it I probably wouldn't be eligible for unemployment again. Even if I were, it would have to be for way less than I am currently receiving.
I have a master's degree and 20-plus years' experience in an office environment, I pass the exam with flying colors in one of the most economically depressed urban neighborhoods in the country, and the best they can offer me is a 6- to 8-week job pounding the pavement?
This is a farce.
I want to work, but I can't afford to work a temp job that lasts only for a few weeks. I literally cannot afford to. I guess I will have to tell unemployment I rejected a job offer, but I honestly don't think I could have afforded to accept it. And frankly, I think it's an insult that this is the best offer I got. Am I being unreasonable?
muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-03-10 11:15 AM
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1. If you tell them you rejected an offer,
won't you lose the unemployment benefits?
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-03-10 11:44 AM
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27. That's what I'm saying. I think I would lose them,
but only for the week.
muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-03-10 11:51 AM
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39. I thought they would cancel them for good...
at least, I think that's how it used to be. If it's only for the week, and it is really better for you, then I would definitely look out for myself. Especially with all the anti-census crap coming from the right-wing nutbags. :hi:
Here's the real reason why.
It was work and DUmbass wasn't having anything to do with that work shit. Work is for plebes and he deserves a high ranking job with the administration. Didn't you hear his test scores? :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
I've been out of work since July and have been on unemployment since then. For more than 20 years, I have always worked in an office. I know how to use both Macs and PCs. I know how to file and sort, etc.
Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-03-10 11:10 AM
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I got offered a Census job--and I rejected it. Here's why.
I've been out of work since July and have been on unemployment since then. For more than 20 years, I have always worked in an office. I know how to use both Macs and PCs. I know how to file and sort, etc. I took the Census exam and passed with a perfect score--and, of course, indicated exactly the type of work experience I have. I also live in a very economically depressed neighborhood with a very high rate of poverty and a low level of education; I'm doubtless one of the few residents who has any kind of college education at all, and I have a master's degree. You'd think they'd be on the phone to me pronto, offering me an office job, right?
Well, I got called just this morning and offered a job as an enumerator--yeah, going door to door. The job would pay $15.25 per hour, and I'd be working 30 hours a week for 6 to 8 weeks. They wanted to know right away whether I'd take it. No time to decide.
I had to say no. This job would pay me little more than I am currently getting every week in my unemployment check--and it would last only 6 to 8 weeks, and at the end of it I probably wouldn't be eligible for unemployment again. Even if I were, it would have to be for way less than I am currently receiving.
I have a master's degree and 20-plus years' experience in an office environment, I pass the exam with flying colors in one of the most economically depressed urban neighborhoods in the country, and the best they can offer me is a 6- to 8-week job pounding the pavement?
This is a farce.
I want to work, but I can't afford to work a temp job that lasts only for a few weeks. I literally cannot afford to. I guess I will have to tell unemployment I rejected a job offer, but I honestly don't think I could have afforded to accept it. And frankly, I think it's an insult that this is the best offer I got. Am I being unreasonable?
Who knew the Census was going to do drug testing as a condition of employment. :lmao:
In the Oconomy, you can't find a high paying job even if you have a master's degree in filing and sorting.
GOBUCKS, c'mon--you know that the DUmb****s would never "lower" themselves to such a "technical" field. Those Womyn's/Ghey Studies degrees sure don't get one much more than a fry cook at McDonald's, no matter whether they're bachelor's or master's, do they?
Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-03-10 11:10 AM
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I got offered a Census job--and I rejected it.
I've been out of work since July and have been on unemployment since then.
You'd think they'd be on the phone to me pronto, offering me an office job, right?
Well, I got called just this morning and offered a job as an enumerator--yeah, going door to door.
I had to say no.
I have a master's degree and 20-plus years' experience in an office environment, I pass the exam with flying colors in one of the most economically depressed urban neighborhoods in the country, and the best they can offer me is a 6- to 8-week job pounding the pavement?
This is a farce.
I want to work, but I can't afford to work a temp job that lasts only for a few weeks. I literally cannot afford to.
I think it's an insult that this is the best offer I got.
Am I being unreasonable?
First off, degree or no degree, NO job is "beneath" me in order to put food on my table or a roof over my head.
Maybe that's why I've never been out of work more than a month since I was 15.
Berry Cool
I also live in a very economically depressed neighborhood with a very high rate of poverty and a low level of education; I'm doubtless one of the few residents who has any kind of college education at all, and I have a master's degree. You'd think they'd be on the phone to me pronto, offering me an office job, right?
Taitertots (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-04-10 07:14 AM
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136. Oh the greed
I think the insulting part would be preferring to leach off everyone else when jobs are available to you. All because you are too greedy to accept a job below your ego standards.
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-04-10 07:28 AM
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137. You have been on UI for almost a year.. dont you think its time to go to work?
Many would be thrilled to get a job offer even if part-time temporary. Times are tough dude... millions of more qualified people than you are out of work now. Take the job. If nothing else to just get out of the house.
Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 12:09 PM
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54.
I don't think I had a lot of illusions about it, either. I just think it's not a good choice for me.
Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 12:11 PM
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57. As for just going into business myself--been there, done that, not for me.
Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 12:25 PM
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61.
Some of you seem to think I am a prima donna snob because I have a college degree (two, actually) and I hoped to be offered something more than this job.
blah blah blah
We each have to make our decisions based on individual circumstances. I don't think this circumstance is right for me, and I admit to being disappointed. I know some of you think I must've been born with a silver spoon in my mouth to have this attitude. I assure you, I wasn't. I wasn't born rich, and my education was not paid for by Mums and Daddums. I wouldn't even have the education or experience I have without a lot of help from a lot of sources, the government included.
As it stands, I am coming to the conclusion that I am unlikely to find work in my field ever again in my lifetime, and that I may have to go back to school. When I do, it will again be a proposition I need to find financing for, because I don't have the savings blah blah blah But i'll do it in a field that shows significant job growth, can't be outsourced, and gives me the feeling I'm making a positive difference in people's lives. Underwater basketweaving, counseling, or social work.
datasuspect (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 12:24 PM
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60. if you don't work, you can't eat.
Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 12:26 PM
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63. Wow. You sound like one of the Republicans.
No need to make excuses or come up with contrived explanations for turning down work, Betty Cool. We all know you a useless, lazy POS; after all, you are a 1000+ posting DUer.
datasuspect
if you don't work, you can't eat.
Berry Cool
Wow. You sound like one of the Republicans.
Didn't Chelley say something just like that during the campaign? "Barack's going to make people work" or words to that effect?The exact quote, as I recall, was "Barack he done gonna make people work."
Barack will require you to worksaid in a chilling, authoritarian voice.
No, it was said in a chilling, authoritarian voice.