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Nice. My weekly unemployment benefits are pretty close to what my weekly pay was.

Posted by Stephen (aka SCeire) Mar 10 '09, 17:11

That is a HUGE relief.

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don't forget to return the money after you become world heavyweight champ! -- nm - Jim Braddock Mar 10, 17:30
Can you promise me nice weather while I'm up your way this weekend? -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 10, 17:16 4
- Fri-Sat-Sun sunny in the mid to high 60's. But you can trust weather reports about as much as you can trust politicians. - Stephen Mar 10, 17:21 3
  - Oh, and did you hear....Stockton won the coveted title of... - Stephen Mar 10, 17:39 2
    - So, what does that make Modesto :) Guess I'm glad I'm only visiting, not movine :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 10, 17:43 1
      - That makes Modesto #5 on the list. - Stephen Mar 10, 17:49
With my annual unemplyment raise I now make more money than my hometown news reporters per week. -- nm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:12 21
- Unemployment gives *raises*?! -- nm - ty97 Mar 10, 17:16 8
  - It's probably just an annual increase in everyone's benefits. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 10, 17:47
  - Just because our jobs don't anymore... - TFox Mar 10, 17:27 5
    - I got annual raises with Fedex, but I think their justification is that the cost of living has gone up. -- nm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:30 4
      - Oh, I know. I'm just saying, they cancelled all our annual raises at my company, lots of others too. -- nm - TFox Mar 10, 17:33 3
        
        dude that sucks sorry, I know my mom's School District she helps run got no raises for anyone. -- nm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:40 2
        
        Oh I'm good, I got promoted. Its the other folks I work with that got punked. :) -- nm - TFox Mar 10, 17:41 1
        
        Hee, well congrats to you! :) -- nm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:44
  - yes it went up $33 dollars a week at the start of the year -- nm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:22
- I'm smiling as I say this, so no offense or insult intended. But you don't *make* shit. You *collect* money. -- nm - Dr.Vermin, :) Mar 10, 17:15 11
  - Actually she made it when she was working. -- nm - the liioulu with rain all day Mar 10, 17:17 10
    - maybe yes, maybe no -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 10, 17:21 9
      - yes you pay into unemplyment and then get credited the money back in an account when you become unemplyed and they dish it out weekly to you. -- nm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:23 8
        
        Maybe California is different, but I thought unemployers paid into the unemployment tax, not that employees did? - ty97 Mar 10, 17:25 7
        
        I'm not sure how it is listed but they told me what my credit was based on my salary of the last year, since I was on disablity part of that time I'm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:28
        
        Yes, it is. - Stephen Mar 10, 17:28 5
        
        ahh, okay, so it's an insurance fund. Not that each individual funds their own unemployment in full - ty97 Mar 10, 17:36 4
        
        what he said -- nm - Stacy Mar 10, 17:37
        
        Right. - Stephen Mar 10, 17:37 2
        
        to your IM: exactly! That's why I was confused - ty97 Mar 10, 17:42 1
        
        : ) -- nm - Stephen Mar 10, 17:42

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