re: #608 Capitalist Tool

Good morning, Walter!
We missed the forecast snow yesterday and only had minor icing to scrape from the windshield. This morning the windshield’s again lightly covered, but no big deal, nothing like what you get at upper altitudes and latitudes.

I’ve an acquaintance who’s been unemployed and collecting benefits for over 2 1/2 years.
He figured out he could live his hermit life on the unemployment rolls and does so. Every time his benefits run out, he gets a little job for a while and then gets back on the rolls. I’ve no clue what the requirements are to collect, but they can’t be that stringent. you shouldn’t have any problems

Is there such a thing as a Monet bidet?

I’ve have collected unemployment twice since 2005, when I got laid off from the Department of Energy. That was the first time in my working career (I started working at the age of 16, I’m 58 now), that I had to do that.

All my employment since 2005 has been piece work, so to speak. Some off and on contract programming work (McKesson Technologies - 6 months, Lockheed Martin - 2 months, six months at a company that had a small chain of “adult toys”), and then I’ve picked up short one day to one week projects, mainly through Craigslist, go to a small company and fix something. The live theatre job lasted two years, but that was only “part time” both pay wise and due to the fact that we were a professional theatre, but non-profit. and we weren’t an Equity house, so we only did 3-4 performances a week. I still do piece meal programming tasks on a legacy system for Kaiser. And my last job which I just got laid off from, I was working as a cashier for Kroger, that was part time, lasted 9 months.

I like the challenge, but at times I also miss the salad days of the 90’s through the mid 10’s… I rode that tech “bubble” as long as I could.