Posted: 2/29/2012 7:38:01 PM EDT
Well, I got a job and when I accepted I was told that it would be full time. After getting all the paperwork for insurance and other stuff turned in, I was told today that I'm only getting 24 hours a week. 
So I did some figuring and after taxes, insurance, and other deductions, I'll bring home about $60 a week. So I guess I'm screwed. Will I lose my unemployment if I turn them down now? I feel like the job was totally misrepresented. I hate it that I have to get unemployment but I haven't been able to find anything and I have been pulling my hair out looking. |
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I do not know your family situation but If you ever decided to move south (im assuming you are in ATL like everyone else on here) Albany PD is almost always hiring. You would be humping it, but you would make some money....not much but more that $60 a week.
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| Well, I finally talked to somebody at the DOL. I'm pretty much screwed. The nice, affirmative action queen said that if I turned down ANY work they'd "reopen" my case and unless there was a good reason, I would lose my unemployment. So i was getting $330/ week UI. The job pays $10/ hr for 24 hours a week. So looks like I'll get $140 a week unemployment in addition to my pay. So I still have a net loss from what I'm getting now, I get $277/ week after taxes. I hate being a leech. I've worked all my life and I hate not working. |
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Quoted: I do not know your family situation but If you ever decided to move south (im assuming you are in ATL like everyone else on here) Albany PD is almost always hiring. You would be humping it, but you would make some money....not much but more that $60 a week. sorry to hear about your current gig. Didn't a whole shift quit cause an officer got shot at? |
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I do not know your family situation but If you ever decided to move south (im assuming you are in ATL like everyone else on here) Albany PD is almost always hiring. You would be humping it, but you would make some money....not much but more that $60 a week. sorry to hear about your current gig. I can't move and I really can't work the street anymore since my back is screwed up. I really don't know how I'm going to stand 8 hours on this security job. |
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Buddy, if I could move, I'd be there. I'd love to live closer to the coast. Find my wife a good job there and somebody to buy my house for what we owe on it. Ha, I still have 5 pieces of real estate north of Atlanta I would love to sell but I gave up long ago and started renting them out again. TD |
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Buddy, if I could move, I'd be there. I'd love to live closer to the coast. Find my wife a good job there and somebody to buy my house for what we owe on it. Ha, I still have 5 pieces of real estate located north of Atlanta I would love to sell but I gave up long ago and started renting them out again. TD Near Alpharetta? |
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Buddy, if I could move, I'd be there. I'd love to live closer to the coast. Find my wife a good job there and somebody to buy my house for what we owe on it. Ha, I still have 5 pieces of real estate located north of Atlanta I would love to sell but I gave up long ago and started renting them out again. TD Near Alpharetta? No, unfourtantly all of my houses are in Gwinnett and Walton Co. TD |
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Well I went in at 0600 and barely made it to 1400. My back and left leg just couldn't do 8 hours of all the continuous walking and stair climbing. According to the pedometer on my phone I walked 7.3 miles today. I talked to the girl that hired me at the site and she said that she'd make sure my separation notice stated I was medically unable to complete the necessary tasks for the job so it won't be an issue for my UI.
I don't know if I can even go upstairs to bed. I might have to sleep on the couch, won't be the first time. I think I'll take a Lorcet and go to sleep. My situation sucks right now. 
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The very thought of me being on disability sickens me. It will definitely be a last resort. I probably won't phrase this right. What type of jobs do you think you can honestly do? If you can't do what your trained for because of a physical problem I don't see where you have many options. |
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Quoted: Quoted: The very thought of me being on disability sickens me. It will definitely be a last resort. I probably won't phrase this right. What type of jobs do you think you can honestly do? If you can't do what your trained for because of a physical problem I don't see where you have many options. dispatch job. i know of one that's been posted repeatedly. nevertheless, it may be gone now... |
| Could you do an E911 communications type job ? That is what I am looking at getting into the only thing that will suck is the hours. I am sure over time the hours would get better but it may be a while at any rate it will be a decent paying job with good benefits... |
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The DOL has( or had when I worked for them) a window where you can turn down jobs that dont pay close or near what you earned before..........I would suggest going by the DOL office and speak to one of the REU people about it.
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Well, I got a job and when I accepted I was told that it would be full time. After getting all the paperwork for insurance and other stuff turned in, I was told today that I'm only getting 24 hours a week.
So I did some figuring and after taxes, insurance, and other deductions, I'll bring home about $60 a week. So I guess I'm screwed. Will I lose my unemployment if I turn them down now? I feel like the job was totally misrepresented. I hate it that I have to get unemployment but I haven't been able to find anything and I have been pulling my hair out looking. |
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The very thought of me being on disability sickens me. It will definitely be a last resort. I hope you understand that wasn't meant as an insult or anything. I was just pointing it out since your back is impacting your job options. I also believe a dispatch job would be the perfect place for you but figured you would already have been pursuing that aggressively. I think your former department should have hooked you up with a dispatch job instead stabbing you in the back while you were out for surgeries. |
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It's a shame that you reported to the DOL that you'd been offered a job. I don't know how they'd have known that you'd turned down a job, otherwise. I didn't tell them, the folks that hired me did. That's unfortunate. Probably a government form for that! It just doesn't seem right, though. |
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Well, I got a job and when I accepted I was told that it would be full time. After getting all the paperwork for insurance and other stuff turned in, I was told today that I'm only getting 24 hours a week.
So I did some figuring and after taxes, insurance, and other deductions, I'll bring home about $60 a week. So I guess I'm screwed. Will I lose my unemployment if I turn them down now? I feel like the job was totally misrepresented. I hate it that I have to get unemployment but I haven't been able to find anything and I have been pulling my hair out looking. I wouldn't say anything.... Just say you have been looking.. Don't screw yourself man.. OPSEC. |