Third and final bitch of the day.
To me, work is a part of life that we don’t enjoy doing, but we have to to make ends meat. Or at least that’s what I thought it was until I worked in Cape Breton.
When I was 18 I had my first job cleaning beds at MSVU for $13/h in 2007 during the summer, that was my real first job. Afterwards I worked in Sydney, Nova Scotia and learned first hand extremely valuable Customer Service skills that I brought with me to even to today, anyways, Several years later I still am in between jobs and I found myself working at a call center in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. I worked there 12 hours day 6 days a week and gave my heart and soul. Not because I wanted to make lots of money (lol at a call center?) but because I loved the work and they let me. Sadly, the reason they let me work all that overtime was because 35% of the staff were on stress leave, and they eventually closed their doors (because, you know, I can’t work 24/7 even if i wanted to). Fast forward to today, I’ve NEVER been without work for more than a month at most. currently I am at a stable job where I earn a modest wage and I plan on being here for a very long time. I received this job not due to my failed education but through my work experience.
My point in short, anyone that “can’t find work” is simply not looking. From 18-26 I have NEVER been without work, Even if I didn’t like the job I settled because I needed the money and didn’t want to go on EI like every other lazy piece of shit in the province. EI is for people who can’t work, not that they don’t want to. Stress leave is another thing, to me you should be signed out by a psychiatrist or else you are like everyone else and should have to go to work. It’s sad how many people sit at home and watch NetFlix off the tax payers dime. For these citizens *I* am the tax payer, not you. Not you who sit at home and bitch and complain about everything going wrong in your life when you don’t make a change.
I hate you. I really do, not because you’re a horrible person (because you are) but because you don’t take any steps to go in the right direction and I am left with the bill. —A person who works for a living
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2015.
Make ends meat? Yikes!
The EI program is in place because of things like stress leave, OB. Get off your high horse and ask yourself, “Why do so many here _need_ to take stress leave?” Anyone still here over the age of 40 has at least one parent they’re helping support financially and/or taking care of because their parents – the ones who gave them life and, if they’re lucky, loved them enough not to have to worry about elder care – are getting on in years and need to looked after; _plus_ school-aged kids to feed, clothe, house and somehow get to school so that they’ll someday get to go to university or learn a trade and not get stuck working in a call center; _plus_, possibly, an adult child with a kid or kids who need someone to look after the little tots during the day and can’t afford the $1000 a month it can cost them, out-of-pocket, for the privilege of a daycare centre. Unlike someone we could mention, few in this region would see a loved one out in the cold and most instead would do everything they could to prevent it. It’s good that you get to look at yourself in the mirror and see someone who can support themselves, but part of the price we pay for living in whatever’s left of this country after Harper’s through with it is that we help support a few of those who can’t. While some could definitely do with working rather than drawing EI, far more in this region are working harder than you or I can, and for nothing but what you or I can chip in the pot.
That’s quite the magnum opus, OB. But is it really that the unemployed are simply not trying hard enough?
I think the vast majority of people would prefer to have a steady, good paying job doing meaningful work. However, many people, especially the older, less schooled among us, lack the education, personal skills, and confidence for the current job market.
So what is the answer for the chronically unemployed? The best thing we can do for them is to improve access to adult education and development. The educational process can’t completely end after high school or community college or even university. The job market and skill requirements are constantly changing. We need to make it easier for people to keep up their skills. Once again, education is the key that unlocks the door.
LAZY PIECES OF SHIT
“Even if I didn’t like the job I settled because I needed the money and didn’t want to go on EI like every other lazy piece of shit in the province. EI is for people who can’t work, not that they don’t want to.” A person who works for a living
But if EI is for people who want to work but can’t how is it that they are, at the same time, lazy pieces lf shit? Do you see contradiction here? No, probably not. That is because of your “failed education.” It was only one contradiction of many which studded your entire bitch and for the same reason.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Yea EI is a tough one. Lots of legitimate use, lots of abuse. It shouldn’t be used to subsidize industries (fisheries). I recall a quote from a friend of mine who’s mother is on EI “she’s too proud to work at mcdonalds”. Well, i’m sorry, but to most of us, taking free money from us is much much much lower than working at mcdonalds.
As opposed to Port Hawkesbury, Utah?
Whatever, idiocy aside…
way to shoot for the stars there bud.
Maybe OP wants to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week (because they just *love* the call center work), but what’s more likely is that OP is bitter about their life, and they can’t even be honest about who they are, so they have this need well up to lie on an anonymous forum.
You want to work your 20s away in a call center or whatever shithole you’re in now, go ahead. Nobody is stopping you. But, the rest of us realize there is more to life than working. So while you toil away in your cubicle, ranting about how much better you are than everyone else, let it be known that we’d rather spend time doing things with friends and family, getting out and experiencing the world rather than the interior of some corporate conglomerate. If you were hit by a bus tomorrow, congratulations you spent the last half of your life working.
You’ve probably pushed away those who’d care enough with the attitude which permeates the fake smile you put on at work. But now you know there’s nobody left, the only people you can lash out on are strangers on the internet.
“If you’re unemployed you’re not trying hard enough!” Good opinion OB. Never mind the fact that there are too many people for too few jobs, and nowadays dream the fuck on if you think that any employer would pay you OT for anything that isn’t a professional job. I know someone who got fired for asking why they were regularly working 60 hour weeks in a row, but not getting any overtime or time off. Nowadays most employees are seen as disposable.
You prefer to live in a bubble where you’re special and everyone else doesn’t have a job because they didn’t try hard enough, not because you won the luck of the draw/were born into a different generation/knew the right people. With attitudes like that, how could we have a problem retaining young people? They just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like you did, and search for the plentiful jobs which provide sustainable employment and will accept people with “failed educations”.
What about people who leech off their poor ex’s pension instead of getting off their flabby asses and getting a job?
Hear hear
I have applied to about 50 jobs that I am most definitely qualified for in the last month. Got 1 interview, didn’t get the job. I really just do not get this fascination people like you have OP. Why the fuck do you care to take time out of your day to shit on the unemployed? You know youth unemployment is 15% in Halifax? 22 in the rest of the province?
http://www.greaterhalifax.com/site-ghp2/me…
Shit happens, people go through hard times, I was in the same boat as you until about a year ago, now I am having a real hard time. It really is depressing and shitty enough without condescending assholes like you making sweeping generalizations about us. Congratulations on your success bud.
Oh, and I’ve never gotten EI, by the way, not that I haven’t paid into it.