it is as i feared.
my unemployment claim runs out at the end of september, and i only have enough hours to qualify for half of what i have been getting, because of the fact that when i was working for schemalogic i was on a 1099 rather than on payroll, so i didn’t get unemployment tax paid. and worse, if i don’t apply before 04-october, i won’t get any benefits at all, because i have to have worked 680 hours to qualify, and the hours that i worked at schemalogic don’t apply. all because i suffered a brain injury last year, and carl was an asshole and fired me. if i ever get my hands on him, he’s going to wish he hadn’t.
i remember back in 1995, when i got my first tech industry job, i was talking with tamzin and she was telling me that i would never again have to deal with unemployment, because i worked in the tech industry now… little did anyone know how wrong she would be. she’s still working, doing network administration and technical support on macs for a school district in the san francisco area, and several other places, but she’s self employed.
my ex-husband spent $3000 while I was in the hospital IN A COMA, and now the credit card company is sending me collection notices telling me that I am RESPONSIBLE! TWO YEARS LATER!
why are they sending you to collections? it should be obvious that you didn’t make the purchases… you can get a note from the neurosurgeon, if the hospital bills don’t convince them. if the card was in both your names, then it should be fairly easy to say that you’re divorced, and point them in his direction, especially if (as i surmise from the fact that you refer to him as your ex-husband) you’re not friendly with him anyway, and if he says it wasn’t him, you’ve got proof that it wasn’t you…
I need to start using some of this horrid anger that I’m feeling and try to get legal rights for people who have suffered a brain injury.
that makes two of us… now all we need is an idea for how to do it.
it could have been a lot worse!
i’m not sure it would have been worse if i couldn’t walk… if i couldn’t walk, or if i were any more disabled, i’d be eligible for SSI/disability, which is a (meager, but) guaranteed income… sure, i’d be more disabled, but at this rate i’m going to be homeless unless i find a job really soon. it would be frustrating, but i could deal with being disabled, however i’ve been homeless before, and it is no fun. i imagine it would be even less so now, 25 years and a brain injury later.
POOPY!!! but you know how much I understand! I have an awesome boss [who didn’t fire me when I was in the hospital] who has within the last year turned into an unbearable asshole so yeah, I’ve been searching for a new job. I won’t quit this one though until I have something else.
Then on top of that, my ex-husband spent $3000 while I was in the hospital IN A COMA, and now the credit card company is sending me collection notices telling me that I am RESPONSIBLE! TWO YEARS LATER! UGH! Maybe I need to start using some of this horrid anger that I’m feeling and try to get legal rights for people who have suffered a brain injury. Life has been so UNFAIR since…
Chin up though. I am ALIVE and I can WALK…so it could have been a lot worse!
Man, that carl was a real piecea work.
I hope everything works out well and quickly for you.