Tagged: unemployment

Gubmint Don’t Want You Sober 0

Gubmint Don’t Want You Sober

A few hours ago, I started drinking again. I talked about it with my forever person first, because I promised I would. A few days ago, a good old friend offered me a job. He’s got influence in hiring. It was perfect. Except it was a government contract with the”Department of War”, so required a drug test. I’m a regular user of THC in NYS, where it is legal to be. But not in Trump’s whacky hypocritical administration. I can...

Soy un perdedor 0

Soy un perdedor

In October 2024, I got a message on Slack from our HR gal asking if I could join a chat with her and one of my managers. Yeah, of course, I’m actually doing real work right now, so what could be wrong? Then we get in there, and it’s solemn, and it’s a situation where you know you can forget about what you’re working on and take the rest of your life off. I received a two-month severance, which, unlike...

Uneasy on Sunday Morning 0

Uneasy on Sunday Morning

An account change notice from Verizon inspired a brief and generous presumption that my bill would be lowered due to a large chunk of monthly payment having been extracted. That was, of course, a ridiculous notion. In any case, friendly advice to the genital pubic: if an exing-relation wished to extract eir service from a shared martial{sic} account, said relation could get an independent line and tether Internet access to eir house over 4G, getting faster speeds than what s/he...