Day 15 Log

When you file for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, you are asked a series of questions, several about why you are unemployed and how long you are being paid until. They send a questionnaire to your former employer asking them the same questions. Your employer is given two weeks to fill out and return this. Until that happens, your requests to be paid will be set to pending. My previous employer has failed to return the questionnaire within the required time period, so that will delay my being paid my UI benefits for at more three more weeks..that means that I may be unemployed for over a month before I receive the money I need to buy food with, pay bills with, buy gas to drive to interviews with...all because my former company didn't take the three minutes to check a few boxes and return the required information to the state.

I have been trying to keep a positive attitude and not bad mouth my previous company, but when crap like this happens, it's hard not to.
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I have received a request for a second interview with the company I met with on last Friday; this is both good and bad, for reasons I don't want to go into on the blog, I now need to contact my former company and discuss some things with them...and given the above rant, this is not something I'm looking forward to. But I'm excited to be asked back in for a second interview, this means that my suggested salary range was probably within reason or at least they feel close enough to negotiate and they are most likely going to offer me a position; which is absolutely great.
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Nothing new on the job front, spent some more time looking at sites, and even spent a while looking deeper into the Chamber of Commerce website for a city near by that I'd like to work in. With Christmas Eve tomorrow, and Christmas only two days away, I think the rest of the week will be slow...which is ok, I'm really enjoying spending time with my wife and kids.