Sorry, Amy--but hope it's a first step to a much better job.
I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Oct 07, 2013 8:20:55 am PDT #8241 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sue - Oct 07, 2013 8:25:22 am PDT #8242 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I'm sorry Amy. I hope something much, much better comes up.
Amy - Oct 07, 2013 8:25:33 am PDT #8243 of 30000
Because books.
For now, she's claiming I can make the same income working as a contract writer for them. Which seems to contradict the whole "slashing budgets" issue, but whatever.
I'm just confused about whether I file for unemployment or what. I'm assuming not, since I'll be making too much money from writing. (I mean, I hope.) Right?
meara - Oct 07, 2013 8:27:48 am PDT #8244 of 30000
Amy, better to file and not need it than to count on income you don't get!
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2013 8:28:17 am PDT #8245 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm sorry, Amy. Good luck!
Steph L. - Oct 07, 2013 8:30:51 am PDT #8246 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh, Amy, that sucks balls. I'm sorry.
Also, if NY is like OH for unemployment, go ahead and file. If you don't work in a given week (or work less than whatever your weekly unemployment payment would be), then you receive a payment. If you don't work at all in a given week, you receive the full payment, and if you do work, but less than full time, then the payment is the difference between what you earned and what your unemployment payment would have been. (Like, if you weekly benefit is $400, and you work enough to earn $300, then your payment is $100.)
That's how Ohio does it, so check your state's unemployment website to see how they do it.
Juliebird - Oct 07, 2013 8:31:07 am PDT #8247 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Amy, that sucks. And it sounds like what happened with my dad. Yeah, he got hired back on as a contractor on the same exact project, and for same or maybe even better pay, but he had to provide his own health insurance (not right away, I don't think). So after cobra ran out he was paying out the nose for it. I think what it comes down to us that on one particular budget line, they are now spending less. They are spending more in other areas , but that's not what's important to making the books look good.
Amy - Oct 07, 2013 8:32:56 am PDT #8248 of 30000
Because books.
I've never had health insurance through them, so ... I'm still out of health insurance. Dealing with that later.
We're in PA now, Tep, but Stephen is saying the same thing, and I didn't understand what he meant. Now I do! Thanks!
And thanks for the good thoughts, everybody. At least now you won't have to hear me complain about my job?
Jessica - Oct 07, 2013 8:35:31 am PDT #8249 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If you don't work in a given week (or work less than whatever your weekly unemployment payment would be), then you receive a payment. If you don't work at all in a given week, you receive the full payment, and if you do work, but less than full time, then the payment is the difference between what you earned and what your unemployment payment would have been.
This is how NY works, but isn't Amy in PA?
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Steph L. - Oct 07, 2013 8:40:02 am PDT #8250 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
This is how NY works, but isn't Amy in PA?
Sorry; my brain is still kind of broken. I can't remember stuff about my own life (it's actually kind of badscary), so I'm not surprised I forgot where Amy and Stephen are.
My general advice still holds; check your (correct) state's unemployment website.