Old Man Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Your message radiates the same vibe I felt after dealing with California's EDD (unemployment department) and the stupid Cal Jobs website. I need to find a new job asap. Dealing with the inane state bureaucracy is going to drive me further into the "it is not I who am crazy, it is I who AM MAD" territory. Besides, not having a job to wake up to is really sucking the wind out of my motivation. Sadly I have had a lot of experience with unemployment. Get into a routine that forces you to get up every morning. If you need to make phone calls you want to catch people before their day gets out of hand. Work your (human) network--of the seven jobs I've had since the eighties, six of them I got through referrals. (The seventh was because I'd put my resume out on all the job sites and a headhunter found me.) And take advantage of your "vacation", but productively. Work out, fix up the house, take a class. You won't have time for any of that once you're starting a new job. And good luck. Remember: you are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank, you're not the car you drive, you're not the contents of your wallet, you are not your khakis. FrankL, aylwin13, Nolgroth and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Great, so now I get to go a month without insurance. Assuming I don't get hacked again, I should be able to afford paying out of pocket for the absolutely necessary medications I am on... I missed this yesterday somehow. I'm not understanding how your insurance got cancelled in the first place, especially mid-month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 It took me many, many, many phone calls to those idiots just to buy a basic health plan after my wife got laid off. We didn't have coverage for the first month, due to delays and f-ups on their part, but had to pay for it anyway to get backdated coverage just to avoid the tax penalty for having over a two month gap in coverage. I had to make a couple of calls to the Governer's office to get them to kick the idiots in the rear to even get anything moving. There seems to be absolutely no oversight for the idiots, and nobody seems to be accountable or responsible for them. THere is a reason there is dislike for "Bureaucrats" . I think I got it straightened out, have to select a plan tonight or tomorrow to get a 5/1 eff. date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 I missed this yesterday somehow. I'm not understanding how your insurance got cancelled in the first place, especially mid-month. It was employer sponsored. I am still not sure how they cancelled it in mid month, trying to find out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya gewing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 It was employer sponsored. I am still not sure how they cancelled it in mid month, trying to find out... That should not be possible, and if it is, you should still be covered under COBRA. I am not a labor lawyer, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netzilla Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Dear QA Tester, When you're testing the resolution of a Trouble Ticket and come across an unrelated issue involving a different application, create a new Trouble Ticket and assign it to the appropriate team. Do not fail my fix and send it back to me. Do not take the TT I fixed, add the info from the unrelated failure and send it to the other team. Especially do not do either of these things after I have already told you three times to create a new ticket and send it to the other team. I am frequently amazed at who gets hired at this company. Almost as frequently, I'm amazed at how they're not encouraged to learn their jobs. I have a reputation for being mean and surly with my co-workers. The thing is, I've tried being nice. I always try being nice when someone new comes along. But when you've been here nearly a year (and in far too many cases half-a-decade or more) and you still can't do your job right, I get tired of being nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 A cousin died yesterday after complications from surgery, and an uncle in his 80s is due for surgery tomorrow morning. Am I worried? Scared ****less is more accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 I'm sorry for your loss tkdguy. Surgery is a tricky business under the best of circumstances. Best wishes for your uncle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 Thanks, Hopefully, everything goes well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 Any news? My own cranky for the day: Phone ringing off the hook all day long. The Xerox rep who refused to fix our crashy MFD until we installed a power conditioner, now that the power conditioner is installed, insists that the reason the MFD is still crashy is because we didn't tell him to come fix it. Morning con call to answer questions about the new software turned into a troubleshooting session because the consultant failed to tell us what needed to be configured prior to the call. Now I have to sit through the call again tomorrow. Taco Bell lady got my order wrong. Stacie is still leaking oil and may have a failing CV joint, but the soonest I can get it looked at is Tuesday or Wednesday. Accounting demanding that I explain the messed up numbers that they messed up. Weeks-long drama around shipping gear to a store ahead of a tight deadline magically disappears when the original shipping address that we were told we couldn't ship to, can be shipped to. Tomorrow, they'll remember that we can't ship there, and we'll go around again. Boss nodding off in our one-on-one meeting. Really? Contractors for the house modifications are all of highly dubious competence. And are all really expensive. Number in my checking account is still really small. You'd think I'd be used to it after so many years, but no. Lack of money kept us from signing the kid up for the summer class he wanted, now it is full. Scouts mangled my kid's name in the online registration, no telling how hard that will be to unscrew. Haven't been able to plan anything for Mother's Day or the other kid's birthday with all the craziness. But! No surgery or cancer or deaths in the family so far, so I shouldn't complain... right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 Well, my uncle made it okay. Hopefully, he recovers quickly. My cousin's surgery, a leg amputation due to diabetes, was successful, but he had a heart attack afterwards. My uncle had a toe amputated. A lot less than a leg, but he's also a lot older. So far, he's doing okay. Staying cautiously optimistic. I was making plans to take a day off in case the worst happened. Two family deaths in as many days would have been too much for me to handle. I had already lost three other relatives since October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 Not only did I find out today that I didn't get into the program I applied for, but I get to celebrate that fact by going home to clean up poop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 My back has been hurting the last few days. I could barely walk yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 A raid by the police and an interview with the police. After which the waiting begins. And do I want to talk about it ? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 Sympathies about the... police thing, DT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted May 20, 2016 Report Share Posted May 20, 2016 Good luck DT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 20, 2016 Report Share Posted May 20, 2016 Sorry to hear about that. I hope everything gets cleared up soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted May 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Hope all gets better, DT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 The Sword of Damocles will be over my head for months but otherwise I'm ok. And thanks, all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Offline due to broadband fault. Thank the Abyss for the library. Engineer tomorrow. Ho hum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 I'm still unemployed. The one solid lead I thought I had come across has become a dead end. Looks like I will have to bite the bullet and reenter the job force at a lower paying position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Bad day today, dealing with obnoxious jerks all day. To top it off, I lost my keys, along with the keychain given to me by my Taekwondo instructor. That's what gets me so upset. Good thing I had a spare key to let me in. Reallyangry about the keychain. Gonna be too mad to sleep tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 I'm still unemployed. The one solid lead I thought I had come across has become a dead end. Looks like I will have to bite the bullet and reenter the job force at a lower paying position. If you have to start over anyway, you might consider that mid-career change you've always dreamed of. If you've been dreaming of one. Easier said than done, I know, but maybe you don't have quite as much to lose now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 @tkdguy: I hate losing things. Can't stand it. It bothers me for weeks. So I sympathize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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