![]() ![]() So I wrote a letter of appeal and got denied. "There's more than one way to pronounce it." He sent the foms out to me, but not before pronouncing the word "resume" like "re-zoom" at least half a dozen times during the course of our conversation. I explained my situation and he told me I should appeal. ![]() Last month I got a guy with at least a somewhat average IQ on the phone at the EDD. I got re-registered, so my checks would come from now on, but there were four weeks in there that I wouldn't be paid for. Well my mistake got me DQed from a month's worth of unemployment checks before I realized and fixed my mistake. At least that's the sort of spam that's ended up in my inbox since putting it up there. It's not like the job bank was ever going to help me, unless I wanted a new career in distributing flyers or selling things on Ebay. Ed McMahon gets the big red lettering but not the government? However, once I found out that was the case, I took the five minutes and did it. You'd think they'd warn you about these things with a notice in big red lettering or something. I didn't do it, because I didn't know it was some sort of federal requirement. I didn't put my resume online in the California State Job Bank by a certain deadline. Long story short, I made an honest mistake. Why should collecting a few unemployment checks be any different? Imagine the tilt that simmered below the surface as I tried to make the guy on the other end of the line at the DMV who had maybe a sixth grade comprehension level of the English language understand that I did indeed pay that $35.00 parking ticket so there shouldn't be any hold on my vehicle registration, which is why I got pulled over in Beverly Hills and fined $718 for expired tags and was about to be dragged into court. Imagine the raw exasperation on Showcase's face as he attempted to explain over and over again to phone monkey after phone monkey, that the state's $6000 tax judgement against him was actually due to a typo of the misplaced decimal point variety. When the karmic wheel comes around for me and its time for me to pay a traffic ticket, register my car, change my address on a form, or really, do anything that requires the cooperation of the State of California, the end result as of late is bound to include me screaming at the heavens or Showcase, or really whoever is around to hear me, that the world is run by C-students. a fantasy.I don't have a great history with bureaucracy. ![]() Not sure how that relates here, but thought it interesting that the world presented in the ad kind operates in the opposite way (men all distinct women all same) - maybe it is further evidence the ad is obv. There she argued men have the freedom to go "unmarked" (e.g., dress/act in ways that do not distinguish them) while women are automatically "marked" by their dress, hair, behavior, etc. The point about the women looking alike made me think of an article by Deborah Tannen called "Marked Women" (written some time ago, like 15 yrs.?). And yr read of the message seems correct, i.e., to say women cannot be players. true each is presented here as a distinct personality (and rep. As a guy who doesn't fit the "young gun" mold of these characters, I might say they kind of all look alike to me as well. Interesting what you say about the men having distinct styles and the women all looking alike. Victory clearly trying to outBodog Bodog, it seems. ![]()
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