Unemployment

I owned and operated a cookie store, which I loved doing, loved the customers especially the regulars, the other mall employees and shop owners too. It was a nice community and mix of people. The kids I had working for me were another story, 2 of them stole money, several of them did not show up for work, one was leaving the store unattended to socialize with her friends, and others worked as slllllllloooooowwwww as turtles. But the couple of kids that really annoyed me were the two that filed for unemployment.


Both were young women, aged 19, one was off to college (supposedly) and the second did not have a promising future, other than (then ?) possible jail time. The first filer of unemployment, I'll call Whitney, quit the cookie store without giving notice, she did not show up for her shift and when I called the home telephone # her mom informed Whitney had started a new job. The mom said she did not believe it was necessary to inform me because her daughter was only getting 6 hours a week of work at my store. Which was true, only due to the fact that is the number of hours her daughter told me she could work. Whitney claimed she needed time to study. Whatever. 7 months later I received a notice from NYS Unemployment that darling college bound Whitney filed for unemployment. She did not go off to college and lost the part time job she left the cookie store for. What galls me is the fact that NYS granted the now 20 year unemployment.


The second filer I will call JT. JT means Jen the Thief. I am 99.9% sure JT stole the opening day's cash drawer funds. Before I talked to her, I reported the missing money to my security buddies. One of them told me confidentially that JT was suspected of doing the same thing with the morning cash drawer funds from the kids play area in the mall. That was why she did not work for the mall any longer. AHHH! The light bulb went on for me. The next day I informed JT she could no longer work in my store. 4 months later I received a notice from NYS Unemployment. JT was unable to get a job. She was able to get unemployment even after I explained to the case worker that JT was suspected of stealing. But because I did not have her arrested and JT was not convicted she was still eligible to receive unemployment funds. JT is 20 years old.

Isn't this a wonderful state. My tax dollars get to subsidize a thief and a lazy college student. When my father had to get unemployment due to his illness we were mortified. It was embarrassing to have people know that we were on the dole, and receiving food stamps. My father was determined to get back to work and get off welfare, as he called it, to the detriment of his health, because it was a stigma, a black mark, a weakness that the man of the house, the head of the family could not provide for his own.

However, today it is expected that hard working tax paying people should have to help out 20 year old lazy, thieving young people. uuuggghh I could just spit!!!!