Obama jobs have 130 weeks of paid vacation......with benefits.
Good grief, how the heck old am I and how did this all come about ???
Unemployment was hard to get last time I applied for it. What 1967 or so.
Then it came about 15 years ago our plant shut down for 2 weeks in the summer for repairs etc and the company came about with forms for us to bring to unemployment for the two weeks.
That was strange but what the heck I showed up with a couple dozen fellow workers and the place had a good 30 workers interviewing each of us separately. We only got one week unemployment but was told if our lay off exceeded a month we had to each week bring in a list of places we had applied to. First week unpaid but next 3 paid then one had to apply for work, prove it and work for any wage offered.
Gets even odder to me when Hubby was laid off indefinitely he went to a temp agency that put him to work immediately. Pay was $5.00ph less but it was work. After 6 weeks he was called back to work with all his lost benefits restored his seniority intact, at the same pay as when he left.
It really surprises me these new laws that make it able to sit around for 2 years before looking for work.
This man complaining about being hard to find work at 58 years old, had he taken any kind of job at 55 years old at least had the dignity of being employed.
Another weird thing, the laws must have changed as I listened in to a conversation with two men, one had been laid off and was telling his friend that he making $27.00ph. did not have to accept a job that paid less.
What kind of thinking is this, to sit around for 2 years bringing in 1/4 what they had been making from unemployment and not be willing to work for half of that.
