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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Unemployment Insurance

EI is such a joke. You fill out the application from their webpage. Their own webpage tells you to drop of the ROE @ a service Canada (lip service) office. And yet when I go there the cow receptionist says "what is this?" (their old offices had a mail slot)

So I explain to little- miss -has- a -retirement -job that I just completed my on line application for benefits blah blah and these are the papers I'm to drop off.

Aforementioned cushy employed says "who said to drop these off?".  JFC - are you that stupid or do you get paid by the hour? So I said "the service Canada webpage" but left the d'uh off the end.

She reads thru the papers ...(that's what I love the most about being unemployed- the total humiliation. No privacy. No respect) ...and decides I ""must"" meet with someone. Ok- I can see no one in the entire office other than staff. They are probably bored and looking for a reason to justify being employed. Hate to take them away from facebook. And can you believe, no one there & no one on the phone and they make me wait???  And to top it all off- no one took my papers so it was a total waste of time!  I get in the elevator and push L- the disability enabled elevator speaks "going down... " and couldn't help but laugh at the irony.