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2019-06-03 at 11:06 AM UTC in I am ghosting my job interview
Originally posted by Ghost Welfare is shit generally. I've only been on it once before I was homeless in BC.
Whenever I'm on it they cut me off randomly which usually fucks up my life. That's why I applied for all those jobs because I still haven't got my check yet.
Yeah, the so-called "welfare" system is pretty bunk, even for a country known the world over for it's progressiveness.
And don't get me started on the whole catch-22 situation of becoming less employable as a function of time spent being unemployed.
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2019-06-03 at 11:02 AM UTC in I am ghosting my job interviewRight now, I'm living on employment insurance.
It's a tad better paying, in my particular case at least, than PWD was...
But, I'm technically still "on" PWD. It's considered to be kind of a permanent thing, but you're allowed to work if you can manage to get it... They just start docking your PWD checks once you've reached a certain income threshold for the year.
So, if (and I'm hoping it doesn't come to it) I don't find a new job before the E.I. runs out (there's always a clock on E.I.), then I at least have PWD to go back on.
But I really would rather find employment (preferably in the same field I had just recently entered). -
2019-06-03 at 10:58 AM UTC in I am ghosting my job interview
Originally posted by Ghost People tell me I can probably qualify for disability. My sanity is fleeting.
I have nothing against working I'm just an entitled millenial I guess.
You probably could.
And I wouldn't judge, myself.
I know what it's like to be kinda on the cusp of disability.
I do have some pretty debilitating (at times) mental health issues, but, in the greater scheme of things, I am pretty able-bodied, and (mostly) able-minded.
I see PWD as an emergency buffer that I'd much rather not be on, but, if a certified medical professional considers it debilitating enough, then it alleviates some of the guilt that I might feel at times.
On the other hand, the one thing that makes me feel a bit ashamed when I'm on PWD is that I have seen people with like... literally no legs, working menial jobs... or people undergoing chemotherapy, and still going into work.
I think the problem is just that regular old welfare should pay a more realistic wage - something people can ACTUALLY live on. -
2019-06-03 at 10:50 AM UTC in I am ghosting my job interview
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Are you socially anxious/agoraphobic? If you are getting dole you need to be looking for and available for work. It's called "employment insurance" for a reason.
In Canada, employment insurance and welfare are two different things.
Actually, there are a lot of various different forms of subsistence during times of unemployment:
1. Regular old "welfare" (I don't think they officially call it that around here, but, colloquially at least, everyone refers to it as such). I don't know exactly what it's at now, but it's definitely not a livable wage.
2. PWD ("disability"), which is provided by the same Canadian governmental branch, the Ministry (of Social Development), but is much more reasonable (relatively speaking, that is). You basically need a "doctor's note" (rather, it's a lengthy, multi-page form, that needs to be filled out by a consenting physician).
3. Employment insurance. This is an insurance payout that you pay for with each paycheck you get. When shit gets real, and you find yourself laid off, or fired (perhaps depending on the particular reasons for such termination), or quit (actually I don't think one would have a reasonable expectation of getting E.I. if they quit, generally speaking).
The first two are set monthly values, and the third is, I believe, variable depending on how much one earned at their previous job, and how long they were there, etc.
I have been on each of them at some point in my life, so, if anyone is curious as to any specifics about how they differ, AMA. -
2019-06-02 at 2:36 AM UTC in In need of super cheap wedding ring for gf.Dollar store.
Get a pack of 10 plastic rings, marry 10 women, start your own harem, all for the low, low price of 99 cents + tax. -
2019-06-02 at 12:02 AM UTC in tylenol reduces empathy new study suggest
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson They should do a study on the twats that do these stupid worthless studies.
Ok, there can be really seemingly worthless studies, such as those saying things that are generally considered to be straight up common sense (although, I personally would argue that they have value in that they actually help determine what are urban myths and old wives' tales).
But studies like this have absolutely fascinating potential implications...
First off, at a more philosophical level, the very fact that we can talk in real terms about how empathy can vary not only between people (huge implications there alone), but even within the same people over time based on such trivial things as whether or not they're taking an over the counter anti-inflammatory!
That's huge!
I mean, it's like that study that found that the sentences handed out by judges were actually dramatically affected by whether they had had their lunch breaks yet*.
* Note: To be fair, the hungry judges study has apparently been criticized, not so much for straight up fabricating data or anything, but for possibly neglecting alternate variables, or from other issues of statistical validity - but, that's how science works, there's always going to be some back-and-forth. -
2019-05-30 at 5:43 AM UTC in Just chillin out watchin some Sinefeld
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2019-05-30 at 5:03 AM UTC in What age of car should you driveCars manufactured in the last 16 years can't consent to being driven.
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2019-05-30 at 5 AM UTC in Torque multiplier factoryYou know I don't fuck with them ratchet hoes.
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2019-05-29 at 6:02 AM UTC in Everyone should use SqliteNeo4j for the win. Graph databases are the future.
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2019-05-29 at 5:36 AM UTC in You ever contemplating a bitch and bout to drunk text her...
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2019-05-29 at 5:34 AM UTC in You ever contemplating a bitch and bout to drunk text her...I sometimes wonder if being an absolute dickwad night actually improve my chances.
Like if I texted her something like: "Yo bitch, I got a boner that needs sucking. Come over and handle that shit."
Like, I swear... Some dudes actually pull shit like that off.
Life just ain't fair. -
2019-05-29 at 5:26 AM UTC in You ever contemplating a bitch and bout to drunk text her...You give me your number, I call you up.
You act like your pussy don't interrupt. -
2019-05-29 at 5:16 AM UTC in You ever contemplating a bitch and bout to drunk text her...How ironic... Too pussy to get pussy.
Shakespeare could write entire fucking sonnets on that shit. -
2019-05-29 at 5:14 AM UTC in You ever contemplating a bitch and bout to drunk text her...I been thinking about her for like a straight week.
I want to bend her over and slide my cock into her puss.
But I'm too much of a pussy apparantly. -
2019-05-29 at 5:13 AM UTC in You ever contemplating a bitch and bout to drunk text her...How do you keep yourself form doing it?
I got this chick up the street I slept with a few times...
She had this body that just... She might be in her 40's, but she got the body maintenance shit down fucking pat. -
2019-05-29 at 5:11 AM UTC in Donttellthem and candyrein have 0 threads made but they thanked each others posts over 1000 times.Lmao.
I was about to say something critical cuz I like Candy, and, by extension, kinda sorta respect DTE....
But I most definitely lol'd when I saw the pic. -
2019-05-29 at 4:12 AM UTC in Would you eat a bird for $100,000?Los Pollos Hermanos.
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2019-05-29 at 4:10 AM UTC in What are you listening to right now, space nigga?I think I'm 'bout to lose it maaaaan...
I'm 'bout to go Gucci Mane.
Pop pop pop pop at yo head my nigga. -
2019-05-29 at 1:06 AM UTC in X the HedgehogFucking LOL.
Today I learned there's a cartoon hedgehog with whom I share a name.
