Here's the deal: I'm kind of unemployed, but I have a job--but I'm not getting paid for it and I can't go get another job that does pay because I already have a job--but I'm not getting paid. Make sense?? Only if you're an airline pilot.
Since I was hit by a car in September, I've been medically unqualified to fly airplanes. Now my doctor has released me to "light duty" which has no application to my job. I'm released to do all the tasks related to my job on December 8. That means I miss my Q400 class that starts December 2. And thanks to a provision in our union contract, the company can delay my return to work by up to 30 days for their own convenience (in this case, not having a training schedule in place for me).
I've exhausted all of my paid leave--sick, short term disability and vacation--and am facing Christmas with no paycheck. "You'll have Christmas at home!" declared the assistant chief pilot enthusiastically. "Yeah, but I won't be able to eat between now and then," I replied.
Grrr.
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Will race for food? Rent yourself out to some adventure racing teams.
Nice. I love it when employers demonstrate how much they value their most valuable asset-- their employees. The folks that get the work done. (Maybe I'm over-reacting. Probably.)
I'm sorry to hear this Susan. I guess one (maybe the only?) upshot is that you HAVE a job to get back to in this economic shitstorm.
I'm sorry that's cold comfort, and you can't eat it.
one thing you might try os to donate blood. They usually provide snacks aftward- juice and cookies or something. Any port in a storm, eh? I did this back in the lean years of college. Eventually I was going a couple of times a week. I was dizzy pretty much of the time from low blood volume. The "gravy train" came to a screeching halt one day after I cut myself shaving and nothing but air came out. So I had to resort to dumpster dining.
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