Bricker
January 2, 2009, 2:51am
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Broomstick:
Uh… yeah. There hasn’t been any odd job construction things for me to do the last couple weeks of December (last day I worked was the 19th) and I’ve spent the better part of two weeks trying to get the Federal unemployment extension that I was told in a nice formal letter I qualified for. The fact my past year’s work history extends to two states is apparently causing some trouble and confusion, along the fact that Lake County closed one of it’s two “full service” unemployment offices resulting in extreme overcrowding and backlogs at the remaining office. It’s been particularly bad of late. I didn’t intend for it to take so long, but at least give me credit for continuing to look for something while standing in a three block long line at 8 am freezing my ass off. While at the unemployment office I clearly wasn’t on MY computer or the library’s and while they have some there at the UO they were restricting them to those entering claims and not permitting their use for job searches due to the aforementioned overcrowding.
Well, none of the Lake County unemployment offices are open Saturday , so I assume you weren’t there then. But the Lake County library system has several branches that ARE open Saturday. The Central branch is a mere five miles from the Crown Point unemployment office.
The library gets both newspapers in hard copy, and has internet access.