FUNEMPLOYMENT STARTS NOW

listen; now is the time to get the fun in. after a few weeks the creeping dread starts to compete for your time, but right now you could put a good thirty to forty hours of gaming time in and not even feel stressed about it

Hell yeah I'm getting a piercing fixed, hitting the bar, and then playing a gig tonight actually

RIP and rat-salute-2 , hope you told your boss off.

I did!

That sucks. It's always better to be the one taking the initiative.

Did you have any, uh, "leverage" left over at the company? Or is their main rude awakening just going to be loss of convenience and performance?

I was the only USA person that specialized in the system i did, so lol
- Oh yeah I think that was your post that you were predicting getting laid off. Congratulations, I think. Spend your new free time well, enjoy.

welcome to funemployment, it's really neet and we're vibing

Today is for booze, vidya, and playing a show. Tomorrow is for applications and doing mutual aid.
Tbh, employment that you're in full control of is better.

A zero-hour contract sounds bad, but I have a part-time job with 0 scheduled hours, amd coworkers that often want to trade in shifts, and those are frequent enough that I can have my choice of shifts, and still cover my expenses with a rather low frequency.

The work itself is not particularly enjoyable, but the aspect of it being fully under my control makes it my best job ever on that metric.

CONGRATS hope you get a better job meow-hug

I'll be fucked on money for a bit but I'm gonna see if my local bar can have me for a few shifts or something while I go through the interview process.

More time for Hexbear nayuta-crayon

I'm always here anyways

Did you install the JucheOS?

Im shipping my laptop back, so let me sign the severance stuff so its binding and THEN I'll do it
- If it'll actually lose you money then don't actually do it lmao, just soak em for all they're worth

Oh that sucks comrade. I hope you get something new lined up soon.

Employers delenda est. Good luck! rat-salute-2

You can join me in the job search comrade yes-honey-left

But seriously my current job pays so badly for an office job, and they started limiting our hours so it's basically become a part time job.

Hope you can find something better soon

good vibes to you as well, comrade!
If you're looking for a role that's common in a tech company I can send you a referral as well
- Live in South Africa, but appreciate the offer though.

Fuuuuccck that sucks. Sorry to hear. If you're in tech send me a message and I can see what connections I can pull for you if you need

Thanks comrade, DMing now.
Does that invite work for us other unemployed tech comrades?
- I actually looked and surprisingly my company isn't hiring AT ALL right now which is wild because we WERE (I train all new employees for a small thing and I've been doing that training once every other week for months now). I think we might be entering some end of the year hiring freeze? But if something pops up I'll reach out to folks here. Sorry!
- DM me, though the open headcount to applicant ratio is quite literally the worse in a long while

LESGOOOOO

Going on 2 months from shitass retail work after zoning out a few days in a row, out of pure spiteful contempt for an annoying manager.

Never making that mistake again, but i stand by this one. Fuck Loblaws, fuck "Superstores" and fuck retail managers who pretend youre "getting them in trouble" by breaking rules. I wish it was that simple.

Fuck yeah! High five!
- 👋

Best of luck comrade! Enjoy some free time and hope you get something lined up soon! rat-salute-2

Thanks comrade!

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welcome to the club gamer

Sitting at the bar slamming pints while I play Gauntlet Dark Legacy on a retroid handheld

Remember to process your new American unemployment period by going through all the stages:

Denial (Fuck them! I'm better off.)
Terror (WTF AM I GOING TO DO!?!?!?)
Procrastination (I might as well take a week for myself I never get a vacation anyways)
Diligence (Okay, let's apply for jobs. I got bills to pay.)
Panic (FUCK! Nobody is responding to my applications! My bills are DUE!)
Desperation (Accept the first job offer you get.)

I jumped right to step 4
- Well, good news: Steps 1-4 are in no particular order and can be experienced multiple times!

Did you at least get to install the noble DPRK operating system beforehand?

Im waiting until i get my pay before returning the laptop. If there isn't anything in the severance docs I sign about laptop "issues" then I have the ISO ready to rock.

ha ha fuck those assholes!

I got to call my boss a human kidney stone on the way out
- that's awesome

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There is none of that. Unemployment is barely enough to scrape by for most people, and it kinda just boils down to how much money you have when you lose a job.

Death to america
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in america you just burn through savings if you have it

its a struggle

i didnt take my first vacation as an adult until i was 36
Unemployment payments are based on what you were making at your previous job (iirc its like 40% of your previous weekly pay depending on the state). So if you were barely getting by before, unemployment will do basically nothing. In terms of how long you can last, that entirely depends on whether or not you have savings, because UI alone won't cut it for anyone with actual bills to pay.
I should also add that there's a lot of means testing for unemployment depending on the state and sometimes you tick the wrong box and they've got you faxing documents in triplicate just for a couple hundred bucks.
- As an aside from unemployment specifically but on the topic of "social safety nets"...
  
  I found a website for a US state's SNAP program (assistance buying food).
  
  Digging through the details... if you have a job but work less than 20 hours at that job, you could be denied OR penalized for not working enough hours.
  
  For the record, my current job if I ONLY punched in/out when the office was opened/closed, would only be 16 hours a week.