Oh I was! I was doing IT Help Desk for Umpqua Bank. But last month they let me go because I told a department (multiple times) they needed to go to the tech assigned the Work Order and not come to us as we'd already passed it. The bosses ignored that fact and only focused on my final reply which said spamming the Help Desk doesn't help their cause and e-mailing us 3 times in 5 minutes about the very same issue after we've already assigned it and already pointed them in the right direction isn't appropriate.<br>
Now why on earth is holding VPs accountable and expect them to follow the rules so wrong? I don't know! But it pissed them off and they got rid of me!<br>~Lance<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>For some reason Lance, I always thought you had some kind of computer tech
job. You know a lot about that stuff, maybe you should look for one. If your
experience i anything like mine, most inquiries in response to job postings do
not result in a reply. Employers are so rude. Remember when they had to pay a
couple dollars an hour more just to get anyone to take the job? Those days are
coming back, when we least expect them, in some way nobody could predict.
Somehow, God will provide, but as C.S. Lewis says, there is always a chain of
material events from which someone could deduce "See, it would have happened
anyway."</div>
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<div>Once again, if you get an unfavorable ruling on unemployment compensation,
appeal it. There are all kinds of errors of judgment made, and a good chance you
could challenge any claim from your employer that you were fired "for cause."
Its generally not good enough that "he just wasn't working out," there has to be
some negligence or gross error on your part, or you would be entitled to
compensation.</div>
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<div>Charlie</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<div>On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:59:39 -0800 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net" target="_blank">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>>
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<div>Sorry to hear that Siarlys. Thank you for the words of encouragement. I
sure can use them.<br>~Lance<br></div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Discussion of the
Good, Clean Funnies List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net" target="_blank">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That
was a surprise Lance. I've been out of work since July 19,
haven't<br>collected unemployment (it was a single incident, but they did
have<br>cause), don't have a family to support, did get work on the pumpkin
farm<br>in October, and had some freelance writing irons in the fire that
may<br>keep me going past the end of the year. Not sure what all this does
to my<br>taxes, since I should be in a lower bracket than expected, but
freelance<br>is taxed for 13.5% social security, and no
withholding.<br><br>Sounds to me like someone at your employer meant to
present your<br>termination in a way that would routinely inspire the state
to give you<br>unemployment (got laid off, no cause specified), but someone
else didn't<br>know that and equally routinely specified whatever "cause"
they thought<br>they had. If the decision is negative, always appeal. A
friend of mine<br>was told she hadn't worked long enough at her job to
qualify for FMLA,<br>therefore she wasn't even on the payroll after taking
time off to have a<br>baby. The state unemployment examiner said, not under
the federal FMLA,<br>but under the state FMLA you did, so they fired you
without cause, and<br>she got unemployment.<br><br>Hopefully you'll find
something else soon, but there sure are a lot of<br>people
looking.<br><br>Siarlys<br>
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