I've got to do something.

I need to write all this down if only for the keeping track of it. I just saw that I haven't posted here significantly since the summer. Before I got transfered to Cornelia.

The bare facts:

In August, I got transferred to Cornelia Post Office. Things didn't go well there. Maybe it was interpersonal conflict with the postmaster and the supervisor. I dunno. I ended up losing my job on November 20th, 2009. I've been out of work 7 weeks now. I dunno how much I should say here since I expect somebody to find this blog - yes I'm paranoid, this is 2010 and people lose jobs for posting pictures of themselves on Facebook and complaining about their boss on Twitter. It involved not passing a qualification for a function that wasn't supposed to be part of the job anyway since with the schedule I was on didn't and couldn't have 30 hours a month of distribution work, and if they wanted that job to do distribution at all they'd have to repost the job anyway. Anyway, I've filed several grievances with the Union, all of which are now at the regional level. I don't expect anything to come of them. I don't expect I'll get my job back.

I've filed for unemployment but there've been delays. I have a suspicion the decision will go against me and I won't get unemployment. If that happens, I have about $100 in the bank and that's it. By the end of February I'll be out on the street. Homeless. Jobless.

Mom paid off my car for Christmas. I'm not proud of that. If it all comes down to it I'll insist we sell the car and I'll pay her back. I'm not going to leave debts behind.

And today I canceled out of the podcast account and the CafePress account. And somehow that hurts worst of all.

I'm not in a good place to look for a job. I have no real skills except typing and writing. I'm 40 years old. There is a program I could use to go back to school to learn social work, but I'd have to have some way to live while I'm doing it. I've been out of the job market for 15 years, I don't know how this works anymore. I've done a resume and it makes me sound like a loser.


So not feeling so hot right now. There doesn't seem much point in going on.