Screw CA Unemployment and the horse they rode in on!

[The Straight Story]

I won't bore you with the long details of all this but CA UE owes me about 9k, minus 2k they say I owe them for not being honest on my initial claim - I said I worked for X company last, I was laid off by 2 companies in the same month - well one company decided at the end to keep me on the books 2 weeks later than they said so I looked like I was lying and they fined me...

At any rate My claim goes back to Oct 5th and I filled out paper work for a month's work of checks. Here I am in near mid December and they have not sent me any more paperwork and when I call I just get a recording that they are very busy, call back another time, goodbye.

Now they owe ME (since they kept the first few checks for payback) and they are not sending me my forms to fill nor are they answering their phones. Christmas is two weeks away, shut off notices, etc all of which I could pay if they would get off their butts and send me the paperwork.

Or they could just deny me which means I could collect my 20 more weeks of Ohio Unemployment which would go back to August and I would get a lump sum and then some, but I have nothing from CA at all to show where I am at and no more claims for weekly benefits to fill out and mail back (In Ohio it is all online, CA is in the stone age of computers).

By now I should have been ok and life should have been back to somewhat normal - instead I am at the mercy of some bureaucrats who can't seem to answer a phone, let me leave a message, or send me the basic paperwork which they sent once already for recording my status so I can get a check.

Even if, by some miracle of God I got something in the mail tomorrow it would still be a few weeks before I got a check from them.

If only I were AIG or a bank I could just have em hand me some money on a silver platter.

Fuck em all.

/rant off