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I've been quiet fired from my retail hell job for certain, it takes me years between jobs between blacklists and just being unemployable of applying non stop to grab anything, and when I do its only a piece of shit. I'm just an old man forever unemployed, always applying to the void never getting employed.
What was bad today was some little college age shits at work that are the new closers were like 'tee hee if you could do your job', not my fault I'm no salesman and probably too neurospicy for this line for work. I wonder if at some degree they were put up for that little bit of bullying to cause me to quit (oh precious children, it will take a lot more than that, stuff that would end up on Worldstar) since when I first joined some physics major had the same quiet firing happen and people went from being friendly to flipping and being monsters toward him though he was a nice guy, competent etc. Then again one of the closers is a neonazi, which fits the local population better, so maybe not.
Anyway, my state's unemployment website is infamous for glitchy and I can't even get started, I'll have to fight that tomorrow. I'm glad I have at least here to shout at the void about things. For being a permanent member of the lumpenprole I'm sitting in an ok position for yet another round of semi-NEETdom and have some small reserves for bills, soon as this week's joke paycheck of 70 dollars goes in I can reapply for foodstamps.
Mood being lumpen is rough ๐, feature not a bug and all. I always feel no one really earns their wage and are just kept around because they're liked at least that's my take from being neurodivergent too. My last job was mostly so many extended families in positions looking out for each other mixed with lovers and shit, one of the top sales guy I think was outed as gay so they got rid of him and the company has been going down more and more fuck that place.
Retail hell job, wouldn't surprise me and wouldn't be the first job that chased me out soon as they caught wind I was trans, though I think here its merely management chasing kpi so hard they closed the store this weekend due to their golden children not coming out with the -45 snow storm rather than bring in reliable workers that will show up and live down the road. This job was so bad for my social anxiety, one doesn't merely exposure therapy their way out of it, I'm still as anxious as when I started 3yrs ago.
At least I got an unemployment claim started, got that going for me lol. I may not be able to ever improve things for myself, but sometimes I can give others glimpses of theory or knowledge to make their lives easier I guess.
Don't I know it my free time in between plasma appointments is just reading and taking advantage of some online courses for hopefully getting a job one day
Plasma isn't a bad call, I wonder about being a phlebotomist, but the market out here is brutal, and then realistically the social aspect one thing to tell someone we can't accept their used undies, another when its their very body wildin out and something they have little control over.
Yeah I've some very nice phlebotomist that helped me out, good advice like keep your feet leveled/now bow your head or them breaking out the big cuff for me during screening. It's a little nerve wracking first times mine is 4 cities away so if I can do it I wasted gas or bus fare. The rates are also annoying they'll pay out like 40 for the first and 80 for the second but if you can't make both you lose out.
StillI keep at it to help my family out best I can, they'd prefer it if I didn't but it gives us some breathing room on bills/food
For an interesting tidbit while snooping around I found documents showing its a corporate decision to remove low kpi workers, it used to be as long as you tried and were reliable, oh if only there was a place for me to leak this stuff where workers at this store would see, reddit is such a piece of shit.
That makes sense damn if only I was born few generations before instead of this hellscape
Well for the great news this is free unemployment for me if they decide to push back since it shows me (and a bunch of other workers) terminated for not meeting KPI along with some corporate docs saying DO IT. Strangely enough, mere hours after I applied I suddenly was called by management sounding sus AF offering a shift and really weird today I'm back on the schedule. Funny cloak and dagger bs for a minimum wage hell on earth job. Didn't know I'd be the average-doomed protagonist of your cliche cyberpunk dystopia. I may be a foolish old man but I've learned just enough from last time I played this game to not Leeroy documents.
If I remember right unemployment affects them or some shit, probably offered a shift had you turned it down it would have been grounds for no unemployment
Right, supposedly in this state employers aren't informed right away, in CA my old employer would boast that they knew we filed a claim as soon as we clicked apply.