Really and truly pissed off

Thanks Selma and Nicolette! It's very appreciated! And thanks Nicolette for the birthday wishes! Very kind! :wink: :hug :group hug

Hello Gnat, I have been on holiday, so I am late to this thread. I am so sorry about your being laid off. I am sure with your skills you will find a new job soon. I would do exactly what you are doing, try to find another one immediately rather than wait until December 1. Good luck and keep us posted, GinaP :cool:

Thanks Gina!! :wink:

Wow!! I have been away, and reading this thread made ME feel emotionally down and then up like a rollar coaster! I can't even imagine what it has done for you GNAT! But I think that change is really exciting, and I hope it turns out great for you. You sound like you are doing wonderfully well!!!! Good luck and let us know...

Thanks Snogg!!! I went in last week to interview with a placement agency. She sounded pretty positive about me and my background so hopefully I'll hear something soon. I've been posting my resume all over and sending it all over. Still nothing. Maybe I need to get more aggressive and start calling the people I've submitted resumes to. :dunno

That sounds like a good follow-up idea,Gnat. The squeaky wheel gets the grease,ya know! Best of Luck,Sweetie! Love, Ship :Horatio wink:

Thanks Matie! Actually, when I left work yesterday, I had a voicemail on my cell. It was from one of the companies I'd applied to. I called her back this morning and left a voicemail so I'm waiting to hear back. And then this morning I got another call from another agency who saw my resume posted online and has a client with a payroll position open. So we talked and I filled out an application and she's going to check with the client to see if they're interested in talking to me further. Fingers crossed!!

Those sound like great leads, Gnat. Fingers crossed.

GO, Gnatty, GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Hi Gnat; did you hear back from any of your job offers?? Sorry I missed this last year, but hope things are better for you now.

I would like to use Gnat's heading to hide my frustrations at the moment. My nephew has moved in TEMPORAIRLY if I get my way, as he has lost his job onthe farm and his marriage has borkenup. He would like to give the marriage anothr go as she is pregnant and yes, it's his. she's living with her parents until the new semester stars 2nd week in July, meantime he's here. He registered at a work place agency which also has temps jobs - sometimes. The man he spoke to said he would call if anything came in. My nephew is disbled and can't walk far and so uses a car, so the place is only 2 miles down the road which comes out to 10 mins in the car. This place has moved closer to where I live - but when they were in their old location - making it 5 miles from where I live - and a total of 8 miles from where my son lived 2 years ago. And my son got up at 4am - walked 8 miles to the job agency, to see if they had any available jobs. And he did that about 3 mornings a week. Rain or otherwise. My nephew is a lazy :rant: :angry2: :oops: :whistle :group hug Thanks for listening

Ouch, I can see your frustration, Marian. :hug I hope your nephew will find a job soon and move to an accommodation of his own or back with his wife.

Something that I've been wondering about since when I read your post, Marian, is if your nephew is entitled to some kind of help in finding a job (and an accommodation). Here in Italy, disabled people are entitled to rental help and the public administration and large company must reserve some positions for them. My nephew is entitled to assistance like all unemployed people (money from the government & assistance to find a new job) but not emergency accommodation. If his wife was still with him, they might have been able to apply for emergency housing from the Government's Housing scheme as the house they had came with the job. However, here in NZ, employers are not required to have a set number of jobs reserved for disabled people as this appears to be condescending and patronising. However, he does have a job interview on Tuesday as a security guard at the mall, and also a friend of his ex-wife's has offered him a job on a farm back down near where she lives. Thing is he doesn't want to go back down to that district and it has nothing to do with farming or his ex-wife. They still speak (after a fashion) and she is pregnant with his kid (or says it's his) but she wont admit she's in the wrong or that she's lied in chat rooms (which he asked her to stay out of, and until she does this, he wont reunite with her). Oh she also cheated, the second time after he caught her the first time. No-one in the family likes her - well I did until I saw how she treated him at Christmas, and only her grandmother likes him :blink: not a great start. But he has matured since they have been together. But he does need a proper job as his unemployment does not pay enough to keep his car and he needs a car to get around as walking on the ashphalt & concrete jars his leg and back. I wrote him a letter of support for him to get more money to be able to kee the car - but it didnt work. Although I did receive compliments for a letter well written and thought out!! Dad and I are now encouraging him to take the job on the farm, and if the social agency giving him the unemployment benefit find out he didnt take the job back on the farm, they will cut his money completely. He couldn't pay me his board last week and I ran out of money for groceries this week so applied for assistance, but the computers will now link us and I would be hesitant about asking for more help as they may not give it, and they may take me off my carers pension and put him onto that and make me get a full time job and that's my teacher's training for next year gone. :wall: Thanks for your support.

Hope all works out for you, Marian. I know that here Government Assistance can be problematic. Those who cheat the system can somehow manage to get lots of money not due to them before they get caught. And those who try to do it the correct way don't get enough to help them out of the situation they are in, accomplish their goals and do better for themselves, making it possible to get off assistance. I looked into a low income housing situation (I was right on the borderline) and when I budgeted things out, realized that the max I could earn left me with very little I could save; which meant when they booted me for too much income, I wouldn't necessarily have the money for first, last and deposit on unsubsidised housing. So, then it is easier to stay low income and not have to move. Catch-22.

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