Category: Job Search

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So I got some information from EDD

Yet another reason to get the fuck out of California!

I get info from the Employment Development Department. All they send me is a notice that I’m supposed to sign up for their Job Search site. This site 99% of the time is advertising for cleaning personnel or migrant farm workers.

The last time I was unemployed, I applied for jobs from their site and kept getting told that I was over-qualified…

There was absolutely NOTHING about IF I’m Eligible.

Nothing about what I’m supposed to do when/if  the Furlough ends.

No instructions other than that I have to prove my citizenship and eligibility to work.

THAT, I FIND FUNNY!

They let you sign up online BUT then they want to see proof of your eligibility to work I’m assuming IN PERSON. If that’s the case then I should have just driven my happy ass to the Employment office and filled out all the paperwork there with everything in hand and just started the process there and made it a simple one step process.

Meanwhile I haven’t been paid for a month and honestly it’s starting to be a bit of a worry.

You know if I wanted to be fucked I’d sell my ass on Santa Monica Boulevard. Or sign up to spread my cheeks in a porn.

It may come to that anyway at this rate.

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Decisions, Decisions

Today is the last day that I can take advantage of a school that I think I’d like to attend. The problem is that said school costs 1500.00 and while I’d really like to do it I’m a little wary of the cost at this time.

See it’s not just the cost of the school, it’s the cost of accommodations while I’m at the school too.

Plus this isn’t the only class that I’d like to take. I’d also like to head to Ft Lauderdale and take one class from a dive school to determine if I want to invest a lot of cash to become a resort dive operator/dive instructor. I’m looking at that as a pathway to a new career.

I can drive to Ft Lauderdale. I can probably afford the one class, it’s again the accommodations that present the major expense.

Then there’s the trip I’d like to take up the coast to add photos to my portfolio.

All of these things require cash & time. The cash I have more or less, the time is questionable.

Since the company has put us on furlough it’s really put a monkey wrench in my travel plans. How can I take off without knowing if I’ll be called back at a moments notice?

It would be the real shits to be attending a 5 day class in Ft Lauderdale and suddenly find out that I have to be at work here in California the next day. Unfortunately, my company has that kind of planning… Everything is mandatory,  (I’m reminded of The Princess Bride. “I don’t think that word means what you thing it means”) and the expectation is that the employees are always sitting in their cubes available for instant spur of the moment meetings.

I guess I’m playing it too safe. Maybe I need to just say fuck it and go live, instead of hanging on tender hooks waiting for one of the upper management morons to decide what the fuck they’re doing.

After all they’re not paying me right now are they?

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What day is it?

 

I feel like I did as a kid during the summer. I’ve been “off” work for a while but I still have to check in daily so I’m not completely free of responsibility

During the time off each day is fun but the names and dates don’t really mean too much. After all there’s always another day to hang out.

This philosophy worked great until the last week before School started again then it was cram everything possible into that last precious week.

The last weekend before school restarted was always the sweetest. I’d stay up late on Sunday night trying to stretch out the last precious moments of Summer knowing that when I woke up I’d once again be the property of the evil empire. My time would be regimented and controlled for another 9 months and I hated it.

The thoughts above are poignant  because when I checked in this morning, I had a ton of email. One in particular from the bug boss. he wanted to have a face to face to discuss changes to the impending layoff.

SO Monday, I got the official layoff notice saying that I was out of work on the 29th. Today I was offered a furlough instead.

Furlough you say? you don’t get paid if you’re on a a furlough. True, however being on furlough means that you’re not actually unemployed and your health insurance does (in my case) continue on without break. Here in California we may also be able to collect on unemployment but that is uncertain. I have to check on that Monday.

Worst case I have health insurance until August. Best case I’ll have a new project by the 19th of July and won’t have to go looking for a new job. So School may be starting again…

The question is do I take the trips I’ve been wanting to take and waiting to take ( for the layoff) or do I tough it out for YET another year and not get to go enjoy myself.

I’m leaning toward taking the trips regardless…

And In OTHER NEWS….

Got the estimate on the car. Thank goodness I did the extended warranty.

They’ve decided that BOTH Turbos need to be replaced. 3500.00 but the extended warranty is covering it. I do have some questions about why suddenly both turbos dump valves are malfunctioning and why it’s all the sudden. One turbo failing … OK, but two on the same vehicle? perhaps a bit more than coincidence.

In theory this should fix the acceleration issue that I’ve been chasing since 2009 I still think this qualifies initial manufacturing defect but that discussion I’ll have in letter form with BMW North America.