Likewise, if someone posts to piss on an OP who’s down on his luck and just wants to rant, he shouldn’t be surprised when those who are commiserating with the OP set upon this idiot and rip him a new one.
You’ve got issues, buddy. At least the OP gets to have at least one guest at his pity party.
I’m scared now.
Will your friends in New City carry you for a couple of months? Do you have enough hours in to claim unemployment? Have you applied for financial aid for when you do move to New City?
If the answer is yes to number one and two:
Try to get your employer to lay you off or quit your job and move to New City. Apply for unemployment. Put in your one to ten waiting weeks (one if laid off, ten if you quit).
If you can get financial aid and a student loan (maybe someone in your family can co-sign), you can go to school and live off your aid and loan.
If you can come up with some money for a car, let me know and I’ll put my network of mechanic friends on finding you a good deal on reliable transportation.
Also, check your PMs.
I wasn’t referring to you, dipshit.
I understand someone wanting to bitch about when life gives them lemons–I don’t have a problem with that. What I don’t understand and do have a problem with is when the OP then shits all over each offered lemonade recipe (which the OP has not done here yet) or chalks all his troubles up to broader issues (see the title) and complains about things that are perfectly normal parts of life sometimes (i.e., “pounding the pavement”).
Also at no point have I felt or expressed “surprise” at other people not sharing my feelings in this thread.
How about working from home? I think some call centers have people that work from home…they just need a high speed internet connection. I have no idea how you would find such work, but that’s how my daughter’s friend earns money.
Since you didn’t defend your position that complaining about long distance pavement pounding is “whining” I’ll take this a retraction of your idiotic proposition. Gday.
Since he hasn’t do it, why mention it? It’s irrelevant.
Good thing he hasn’t done that. However, some of his troubles certainly ARE the result of the current economic situation. Just because you and I aren’t suffering because of it, doesn’t mean others aren’t.
You seem to once again overlooked the fact that for the OP, “pounding the pavement” means a round-trip drive of 50 miles, for which he must rely on friends. This isn’t a case of simply having to walk around town looking for “Help Wanted” signs. If that’s what he was complaining about, I’d be right there with you. But, it ain’t.
Because I mentioned it in my first post to this thread.
:rolleyes: Wrong. The title says he pits the current economic situation but the OP is all about himself.
Tough shit. If that’s the only way to find the types of jobs he’s looking for in the new city then that’s what he’s got to do.
Anywho, you and Tao and the OP enjoy your pity party, I’m sure Acid Lamp will be here shortly. I’ll go off and enjoy the fruits of the good decisions I’ve made in life. I hope those playing the home game take some lessons.
That link takes me to Yahoo, not the Times.
7 ads total does not make for “plenty”
Perhaps it was just a recent print edition, but last week I did indeed see paper editions of the local papers that were without want ads. Perhaps they had ads on their website, but that did me little good while waiting outside for over an hour in the cold without access to computer as I waited just to get in the door of the unemployment office. Perhaps someone had stolen the want ads from every copy of the paper at that newstand. All I know is that I couldn’t find a copy of the paper that had want ads in it.
Actually, I stated I had manage to find work of sorts, just not steady and not well paying.
If it’s a legitimate mailing address for you, which it is if your friends agree to accept mail for you there, it’s not fraudulent information. It’s not like a job application asks if you hold title to the house.
You quoted my post, dipshit.
No one is saying he doesn’t have to do it. What you’re too stupid to fucking get is it’s a shitty situation to be in and the economy isn’t his fucking fault.
ITT: a typical free market idiot worried more about sucking AIG’s cock then reading for comprehension.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Of course it’s about himself. He’s pitting the current economy because it’s the primary cause of the rough time he’s in now. How else is he going to explain it without talking about, y’know, his circumstances. :rolleyes: right back atcha.
No shit, Sherlock. Really? :rolleyes: again. He knows what he has to do, and as far as I can tell, he’s willing to do what he has to do. Doesn’t mean he can’t be pissed off by it. Or gasp tell us he’s pissed off about it.
What makes you think I’m in the same situation? Fact is, I haven’t had it this good in a while. But, making a point of that in a thread started by someone in a world of financial hurt would be crass. I may be a lot of things, but the kind of guy who pees in someone’s cheerios after they tell me his life SUCKS isn’t one of them. Usually.
No duh. Please learn the difference between “referring to” and “responding to.”
kthxbye
The Times has contracted out their want ads to Yahoo - they are searchable by zip code. The one I linked to is for Munster; Gary has two pages worth.
Fair enough - but those are just the new listings. The Post-Trib has a poor website design, integrated with the Chicago Sun Times.
I do not dispute that the economy is shitty, and I’m not trying to be snarky. But I’m very curious, and since we both know this area…
Why can’t you find a job? I know that our local papers are filledwith job listings. Granted, some of them are “nationwide” scam-kinda listings, but there are still many, many jobs. I am a paralegal, and out of curiosity, I always check the clerical/admin type of jobs. There are tons of them around here, and that’s just in my field.
The likes of Rand Rover like to think that when people suffer misfortune it’s all the victim’s fault because that magically insulates them from harm as, of course, the Rand Rover’s of the world only make good decisions, never mistakes, and factors outside themselves can’t possibly hurt them.
:rolleyes:
I’m torn between a wish for them to learn the error of their ways and the immorality of wishing harm on another human being.
Hey, do what you want, but lying on your job application doesn’t sound like a particularly good strategy to me.
WTF?
Yer an idiot.