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The only thing I know about unemployment insurance is as an employer.
I had one employee who requested that I show her as "laid off" even tho she quit, so she could get unemployment insurance while looking for a better job ... boy, I never made THAT mistake again, because my unemployment rates went up due to my "experience rate".
Anyway, here in CA they seem to apply "good cause" fairly narrowly.
That is why I kept asking whether or not you were SURE you'd get unemployment, but I didn't look it up. When I DID look it up (just now) this is what I found
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You can not receive Indiana unemployment benefits if you quit your job.
IF YOU HAVE A JOB, DO NOT QUIT IT
IF YOU QUIT YOUR JOB, DON’T EXPECT TO COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT
IF YOU HAVE A JOB, AND ARE LOOKING TO CHANGE JOBS, DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB UNTIL YOU HAVE A NEW ONE
In order to be eligible for unemployment benefits in Indiana, you have to have lost your job through no fault of your own. This means that if you quit your job, you can’t get unemployment.
Be sure that you can not quit your job because you didn’t like it, or it was too hard, or because it didn’t pay enough, or because the hours didn’t work for your schedule – and still expect to collect unemployment.
https://unemploymenthandbook.com/indiana-unemployment-if-you-quit/
I dunno SIX .... that doesn't sound too good to me. I hope you got good info.
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I didn't quit. It is a layoff.
People who quit their jobs don't get severance.
The only way you get denied is if the company successfully challenges the claim, which I've been told by 3 top level individuals including the new Robot that the company never fights them.
Besides...
https://nypost.com/2015/09/28/heres-when-you-are-and-are-not-eligible-
for-unemployment/
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My boss changed my work shift and reduced my hours. I can’t work that shift or afford to take that pay cut, but because I couldn’t work those hours, he says I’ve resigned — and that I’m not eligible for unemployment. Is that true?
Absolutely not. In most states, you are eligible to receive unemployment benefits even if you’ve resigned — provided the reason for the resignation was due to a material, adverse change in your terms and conditions of employment. Changing your shift and reducing your pay certainly meets that threshold, so go and file immediately. Tell them that you didn’t quit — explain that you were offered a different job with a shift you couldn’t work, at reduced pay, and you were then dismissed. You will be given benefits.
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Well, this past week nobody was sick and there were no doctor's appointments. So between hubby and me we managed to pull a lot more crap down from the garage rafters for disposal/ re-use, and put some stuff up (drawers that might be used for a later project).
Also he helped me dis-assemble an old broken lawn spreader to retrieve the metal parts and cut up an old composter for the metal parts, and I did one more scrap-metal roundup (old tomato cages, misc screws, bolts, hinges, hose bibs, heavy-duty curtain rods, random copper tubing, a couple of old electrostatic precipitators from the original air-handling system, screens, etc etc) and dear daughter and I took the lot over to a nearby scrap metal recycler. It was about 120 lbs of mixed ferrous, 8 lbs of copper, 8 lbs of brass, and 20 lbs of "breakage" (mixed steel and aluminum) and netted us a little over $24. Not a lot of money but at least we saved a lot of stuff from the landfill.
I scoped out the next hazardous/ e-waste event and we'll be taking some old soil conditioner (gypsum) and stcco mix and glue and whatnot as well as a bunch of old wires, perfboards, power supplies and other random ewaste there soon. Tommorrow dear daughter and I will be painting, and th day after hubby and I will be sorting computer parts to make room in the den (our "transition room") to move stuff out of our bedroom so we can move back in, clearing out dear daughter's old bedroom for painting so that SHE can move back in. The week after that there's only one doctor's appointment so we should be able to make good progress.
I made a better-than-usual stir fry as I had a lot of leftover veggies: carrots, celery, leftover red pepper, leftover snow peas, water chestnuts, leftover bok choy, and leftover bean sprouts so I got to clear the veggie bins. Served it with baked tofu and Chinese-style bbq pork (Ketchup, soy, ginger, garlic, sugar and a little worcestershire sauce for kick).
Cleared out a mess under the kitchen sink and discovered the installation instructions for our kitchen faucet, which (along with the fact that dear daughter found "DELTA" very lightly etched into the faucet body) put me in the right direction of which repair kit to get because that valve has been getting harder and harder to shut off. Even better, the sales guy at DELTA told me that the faucet has a limited lifetime guarantee and will send me the part for free.
So it's been a busy week, chased after a lot of little piddly things but they needed to be done and with stuff actually crossing our property line in the outward direction things are looking neater and tidier as we go along.
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That's great. :)
It's really nice to get to all those little things that should have been done a long time ago, and a tidy house isn't just more appealing to look at but I find that it motivates one to be more productive overall.
Although, I haven't been very productive these last two days at all. I must have really needed sleep after all those work days since I've practically slept two days straight with a few hours awake in between. I think the canker sores are largely to blame for that down time.
I also missed the best opportunity to mow my lawn that is getting to really need it yesterday, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm going to have to do it now on one of my work days in between shifts next week since it will rain pretty much the whole time until I go back to work.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I had one employee who requested that I show her as "laid off" even tho she quit, so she could get unemployment insurance while looking for a better job ... boy, I never made THAT mistake again, because my unemployment rates went up due to my "experience rate".
Oh. And yeah, it's expensive to let people go without very good reasons to do so. It's actually the very reason that third party legal entities such as TALX even exist to handle a lot of these cases, even for large corporations with a lot of money but don't have their own departments to regularly handle things like this.
I'm sure the burden is even higher for "ma and pa" establishments, just like everything else is compared to major corps with a ton of money.
When I asked Number 2 about this a while back, he told me that the company never fought unemployment claims and that he knew of people who had been fired for stealing that still got the unemployment (because the company didn't fight it, and likely the person filing "forgot" to mention the reason why they were fired). There would have been about a zero percent chance the person would have been able to get it had the company fought the claim.
I didn't take that to mean much, however, with the massive corporate restructuring going on all over the company right now. But when I did ask the new Robot about it in our meeting, he said that the company never fights unemployment claims, very matter of factly.
I can only assume that this "never fight" policy of theirs is for PR reasons. Like most multi-national corps these days, they aren't viewed particularly favorable by the public already. My guess is they figure that paying the increases for the insurance is cheaper than potential losses of customers they might see to their competition from any possible bad press over this.
That would make sense, really, since the company already budgets millions of dollars per year, per store for theft and damages.
I wasn't really worried about this going into it since changing my entire shift and cutting my bi-weekly pay roughly 20 hours from what it was before was an egregious change of the terms and conditions, not to mention that the shifts themselves would go from 7 1/2 to 10 hours per shift down to only 4 to 5 hours per shift.
But again, as long as a company doesn't reply within the 15 to 30 day period to contest the claim then there is no valid reason for a denial.
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Eh. I've been pecking away slowly. The office is halfway fully set-up - literally half the room in done. But I had to move on to the laundry area, which involves cleaning the ceiling and walls, digging into about a half-dozen crates I threw things into without being too organized, and re-doing a fair bit of the storage shelves.
In between I've been researching my 'plant palette' for the next round of landscaping, especially on the days when it was too hot to do much, even indoors.
I have to say, recently it seems like most here are looking up, and Jack - you're holding steady. That's good news all around!
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Yeah. It's great that everybody here seems to be doing stuff to improve themselves and their situations. I know I probably come off as far too self involved with my own stuff, but I've got so much going on right now it's just nice to have a place to get it all out there. But I am really happy to see that everybody else here seems to have gotten the "bug" too. 
Really, none of the stuff going on with my life would be bothering me all that much with my new frame of mind about things if it weren't for the ticking time bomb in my mouth. It really has been hurting recently, even before the cankers showed up. I can't wait until my dentist appointment next month. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and talk to him about a likely very pricey solution to it all, since I think my step-sis and her husband are going to flake out on me and my mom and step dad are beholden to them now since they put their retirement into their hands, so I'm not going to get any help from them anymore. I honestly think he's a hack. His clientele is rich people who can afford major surgeries, bone grafts and implants. He doesn't seem to have any confidence in his abilities to put me in dentures or partials that would do me justice and because I'm unwilling to go into debt for the rest of my life for implants he doesn't even want to be a part of it. Pretty shady, if you ask me, since they promised they'd take care of me and they've flaked out on it over the last few years. Going to have to see what my dentist can offer me since it probably wouldn't do my parents good in their retirement to start blaming him for any abscesses that poison my brain after they never did the job.
It's a shame on that $24 for recycling, Sigs. I had a whole bunch of stuff in the garage that I was going to separate and cash in on eventually, but I've already started getting rid of it curbside on a slow basis over the last month or so since I figured it wouldn't even be worth the time to do. At least it's not going into any landfills though. Plenty of lighthaulers have come around taking anything with metal in it before trash pickup, even though the practice is technically illegal here.
Got rid of the broken lawnmower I got from a friend years back I always meant to fix for a backup. That thing disappeared within an hour after putting it out.
Still haven't brought myself to get rid of the broken weedwacker, leaf blower and powerwasher though. I already have a working weedwacker and leaf blower, but these would be huge upgrades over what I got if I get them working. I don't have a power washer though, and this one is industrial strength and would cost me well over $500 to buy a comparable working unit. It kind of works now, but it's nowhere near as powerful as it should be. It probably wouldn't be a difficult fix when I get around to it. There's plenty of other stuff to get rid of in the garage first, so hopefully after I clear it out and have a clean work bench I can start tinkering as a break from working on the house.
Already took care of some paperwork that needed to be done this weekend. Going to get a much needed haircut soon. I'd been holding off way longer than I should because the cheap ass that runs the place apparently decided not to offer any coupons in the mail for the last two months, but I can't put it off anymore.
Sadly, I doubt the lawn is going to get the much needed mowing before I go back to work. Oh well. I'll just make a short, superficial cut the first day weather permits in between work shifts and make my way down to the bottom with a few extra mowings after that. Hopefully by that time we'll be out of this ridiculous rain spell we've been under around these parts.
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Oh, I'm very happy with the money that I got for the metal. The recycler is not three miles from where I live, and it paid for well more than the gas!
We've lived in this house for over 25 years, and when we moved here it was kind of an emergency move, precipitated by my MIL's terminal cancer and her inability to handle the stairs in our two-story townhouse, so we just grabbed everything when we moved ... no time to sort. So the last time we did a big purge was when we moved to LA in '78, and have been accumulating stuff ever since.
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SIX, I feel like your mouth is stressing you out. As I understand it, your jawbones are Ok, right? No underlying bone infection? IS there bone-thinning there, or do they have a normal density?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, I'm very happy with the money that I got for the metal. The recycler is not three miles from where I live, and it paid for well more than the gas!
We've lived in this house for over 25 years, and when we moved here it was kind of an emergency move, precipitated by my MIL's terminal cancer and her inability to handle the stairs in our two-story townhouse, so we just grabbed everything when we moved ... no time to sort. So the last time we did a big purge was when we moved to LA in '78, and have been accumulating stuff ever since.
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SIX, I feel like your mouth is stressing you out. As I understand it, your jawbones are Ok, right? No underlying bone infection? IS there bone-thinning there, or do they have a normal density?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
The jaws themselves still work, if that is what you mean.
The bone that held the teeth is virtually gone. It's worse on the top than it is on the bottom. I was told that around 80% of the bone that used to hold the teeth in is gone, and for 7 of my teeth it was non-existent and the only thing holding them in were the cartilage and the gums. That was 5 years ago.
There's underlying infection eating away at them further as we speak. I'm fighting infections 24/7 every day of my life, and it's a losing battle.
It's why I wanted to just get them all removed and have full dentures on top and bottom, but my step-sis's husband refuses to do it. I'm in constant pain. It's not debilitating, since I have a high tolerance for pain and it's just become my new normal, but the knowledge that it gets worse all the time weighs heavily on my mind constantly.
The teeth that remain on the top have shifted considerably, which is really sad since they used to be perfect after the braces came off in 8th grade. :(
I haven't smiled with my mouth open for years. Probably the saddest thing about all of this is that to this day I have still yet to have a single cavity in my life. The teeth themselves are in great shape.
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