Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Will read when I can. The Clan of the Cave Bear series is just mind numbingly stupid.

 

[sparkles2307]

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Well, I stand by my statement that WIC and other such programs are there for when life hands you lemons. One cannot possibly be prepared for all eventualities. It's nice to say "have 6 months of bill money saved up in case you need it" but what if that money gets used up and you still don't have a job? I heard on the radio the other day that something like 46% of people who lost their jobs two years ago are still unemployed. And these are people who WANT to work.

Yeah, we are talking about WIC. As in, what, 3 or 5 years at max? Which we so wouldn't use that long because the reality is it's just the blasted formula that is so dang expensive.

Yeah, there are lots of people who are running out of UI, if the state even got to the 99 weeks and they got the max. The state I was in (besides insanity and denial), it was maxed at 60 and we were getting just killed with outsourcing, then they cut the TRADE 2009 act back, so all those people who DID work for 20, 25, 30 years in a job without any other training are running out of time and are still unemployed with no real prospects.

I used WIC with my kids till they were like, 3 and 4.

They would have gone hungry without it.

Not because I was one of those "breed em but don't feed em" welfare cases either.

The ex isolated us, abused both physically and mentally, and refused to let me even ASK to get a job because he didn't want "outside influences" giving me ideas about how life ought to be. I wasnt even allowed to do laundry for the neighbor in exchange for food.

So, without WIC, and until I left him, my kids woulnt have made it. I didn't know about food stamps, so I learned how to make us all live on WIC.

 

[LarryPQ]

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Thank you for that, I almost bought the first book in that series yesterday.

It was one of my favs until the author got old. Then Ayla got blonde and never made mistakes. SURE--she invented the needle, and thread, and discoverd how babies were made, and raised a sabertooth tiger, and acted as a liason for 2 races, and flew planes for a living,-------- but man was she boring as crap.

 

[Orchid]

Holy cow, Crankypants has been reincarnated as my husband today.

 

[Orchid]

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Yeah, we are talking about WIC. As in, what, 3 or 5 years at max? Which we so wouldn't use that long because the reality is it's just the blasted formula that is so dang expensive.

Yeah, there are lots of people who are running out of UI, if the state even got to the 99 weeks and they got the max. The state I was in (besides insanity and denial), it was maxed at 60 and we were getting just killed with outsourcing, then they cut the TRADE 2009 act back, so all those people who DID work for 20, 25, 30 years in a job without any other training are running out of time and are still unemployed with no real prospects.

I used WIC with my kids till they were like, 3 and 4.

They would have gone hungry without it.

Not because I was one of those "breed em but don't feed em" welfare cases either.

The ex isolated us, abused both physically and mentally, and refused to let me even ASK to get a job because he didn't want "outside influences" giving me ideas about how life ought to be. I wasnt even allowed to do laundry for the neighbor in exchange for food.

So, without WIC, and until I left him, my kids woulnt have made it. I didn't know about food stamps, so I learned how to make us all live on WIC.

Well there you go. My point exactly.

 

[Orchid]

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Thank you for that, I almost bought the first book in that series yesterday.

It was one of my favs until the author got old. Then Ayla got blonde and never made mistakes. SURE--she invented the needle, and thread, and discoverd how babies were made, and raised a sabertooth tiger, and acted as a liason for 2 races, and flew planes for a living,-------- but man was she boring as crap.

 

[LarryPQ]

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I have those--but I didn't like the author's obsession with pain. The politics were great, but it was like the characters had to suffer for suffering's sake. It irritated me.

 

[sparkles2307]

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It was one of my favs until the author got old. Then Ayla got blonde and never made mistakes. SURE--she invented the needle, and thread, and discoverd how babies were made, and raised a sabertooth tiger, and acted as a liason for 2 races, and flew planes for a living,-------- but man was she boring as crap.

I like Michael Gear's books. People of the Owl was good. People of the lightning was boring tho.

I like the Dragonriders of Pern.

 

[Orchid]

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I have those--but I didn't like the author's obsession with pain. The politics were great, but it was like the characters had to suffer for suffering's sake. It irritated me.

Well, that part is almost like real life, I admit. But I like happy endings and they had that!

 

[call ducks]

The robot shipped to day

I might have it by friday. But mor likely well be mon-wed before i get it.