You might say, "why don't you just work full time and get off those government programs" Yeah, that would be great if 1. I could handle it in the first place, 2. I want my paycheck to go to anything BESIDES medical bills, and 3. I can't even keep a job for a year. I can't risk losing this safety net if I go off it and get fired again.
At least I get to do the working interview at the same time so I don't have to dress all prissy. (I get to wear scrubs) and they don't have to waste my time twice if they don't plan on actually hiring me.
Unless they admit that they fired you for your disability, you just gotta take what they said and live with it. Even if you strongly suspect what they said isn't true. unless your former employer is dumb enough to try to get $900 of unemployment back and puts their discriminatory reason on paper to the unemployment office.
See, I suspected it, because the issue came up and they immediately fired me the next day with the 'ol "It's not working out" and there really was nothing I could do about it until I got a case summons from the Courthouse and read their 'evidence' I literally choked. Sadly, they had less than 15 employees so the EEOC couldn't get involved. Just state laws.
hey best of luck with the job interviews! politics is lying to you re: govt aid; if it wasn't for govt aid, my family would have struggled much more when i was growing up, due to us not really having an income other than govt aid.
thanks guys. you made me feel better about it. Really the main thing I'm afraid of losing is my insurance. I literally have to have an internal medicine doctor to wrangle all of them.
Even without medicaid, Medicare covers 80% and I have an advantage plan that I have no co-pays for anything including meds as long as they're in network.
If I had to pay this out of pocket I'd be bankrupt. not to mention, from what I've seen, most private insurance, you gotta pay a certain amount before they'll cover shit!
as of right now and even when I'm working as long as I stay under a certain amount of income, medicaid pays my Medicare premium which would normally be 100-something a month
I really need to get a new job though. Right now partner is spotting me the money to pay my bills over what I am able to pay myself with my SSDI, which is an over 500 short.
Not to mention, and again, this could be politics talking, but at least I'm trying to be a productive member of society and trying to work. I hate not doing it because I almost feel like I have no purpose
Oh, also partner's mom is being extremely understanding and not charging me rent while I don't have a job (and hopefully still when I gotta pay partner back. though idk if she's even gonna make me)
Still pissed I was literally 80 hours short of qualifying for unemployment. You gotta have 680 over a year and they do it in like, quarters or something
honestly, wanting to do productive things is perfectly natural; the political nonsense is the idea that nobody will do productive work unless on pain of death by starvation/exposure/untreated medical conditions
only sociopaths and people so wealthy it impairs their social awareness are inclined to actually just do nothing, they just project it onto everyone else
someone legit wanting to do nothing, in an otherwise normal person, is a sign of mental illness (e.g. depression, burnout, etc) that should be treated (which is not just kind but actually useful), not stigmatized (which is neither)
and so far I've been lucky. They've all let me wear scrubs. otherwise I have to go shopping for interview clothes. Ironically because when my car was towed after my accident, the tow truck company stole all the stuff in my car, including my interview clothes.
they literally stole everything, from my dash cam (which technically had evidence of the accident) to my toll lane pass, to my freaking box of tissues!
but ofc there was nothing I could do short of taking them to small claims court. and it wasn't worth that. Filed a police report and the police didn't do shit.
AND THEN they fucking got into a fight with the other tow truck company that was taking my car to the body shop and ended up smashing the whole back of the car into a forklift. So that pushed the repair cost over the value making my car get totalled
...that... is wildly out of bounds on what insurance should cost, especially when it includes basically no actual support and blames you for someone else being irresponsible
The problem is... as a new driver I made some mistakes (because apparently in my lessons they failed to tell me you're supposed to yield to oncoming traffic on a solid green light. I thought green means go lol) Anyway, I was in 2 accidents for this same thing (I've learned my lesson!) and with each accident I got a ticket.
Needless to say, some insurances won't take me at all and a lot of others were charging 500+ premiums. I was actually lucky to find this Allstate plan. It's not a typical one offered. It's for high risk drivers. My old one was National General and they were gonna raise my rate to 500+
...tbh "yield on solid green" sounds like a very weird traffic light scenario... like where you get a traffic light coming in from a side street, but the main road doesn't get a traffic light or smth
Have 2 interviews/working interviews at the same time. One scheduled for Friday, one scheduled for next Tuesday.
unless your former employer is dumb enough to try to get $900 of unemployment back and puts their discriminatory reason on paper to the unemployment office.not to mention they didn't even spell my name right in their lettersounds to me like instead of tagging you they should be investigating that driving school's accreditation