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<\/p>\nThat I report when EDD actually does something correctly.<\/p>\n
I spoke with an EDD representative yesterday who actually asked reasonable questions.<\/p>\n
This was a first!<\/p>\n
This lady asked what I’d done as a career.<\/p>\n
I told her that I’d been a software Quality Assurance person for about 30 years.<\/p>\n
She asked me why I’d taken a Bartending class. <\/p>\n
I told her because I couldn’t get the time of day in my previous career and that It seemed a way to get immediate employment. After all good times and bad… people drink!<\/p>\n
She noted that this was quite a departure but she saw my point.<\/p>\n
She didn’t comment on my statement that High technology businesses were offshoring or leaving California at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n
She did that pause thing that you hear when people are censoring themselves. I don’t know if that was agreement or not but it was interesting.<\/p>\n
This lady was a real person. She wasn’t one of those creepy automatons who barely speak English and strain my universal translator to the breaking point.<\/p>\n
She was actually a nice person.<\/p>\n
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It was kind of funny, because she told me that this class didnt’ qualify for California Training reimbursement. <\/p>\n
I told her I wasn’t trying for any reimbursement, I was simply reporting that since I was sitting in class 10 hours a day I obviously wasn’t out interviewing. I’d answered the question on the EDD forms honestly.<\/p>\n
She paused again… Then chuckled and said, “I see.”<\/p>\n
She asked, “If you’d been offered a job during that week would you have dropped the class?”<\/p>\n
I said I’d have accepted the job as a priority. But, I’d have gone to the folks running the school and asked if I could attend nights and finished the class.<\/p>\n
She chuckles again and says “I’m clearing this, we’re going to get you caught up.”<\/p>\n
I was shocked. I thought there were no EDD benefits left so now I’m curious about what the they’re doing. We’ll see when the next batch of paperwork comes through. Heck if all I have to do is fill out paper work and they’ll keep me in the system I’ll fill out the paperwork.<\/p>\n
It was nice to deal with a real person at the EDD at least once. <\/p>\n
#EDDNOTFAIL<\/p>\n
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That I report when EDD actually does something correctly. I spoke with an EDD representative yesterday who actually asked reasonable questions. This was a first! This lady asked what I’d done as a career. I told her that I’d been a software Quality Assurance person for about 30 years. She asked me why I’d taken … <\/p>\n