Years ago, when the Recession hit, I was un the Yacht indutry, labor shyt, but good money....the crash brought that industry to their knees, and pretty soon, say November/December, we were brought in and told there was no work for awhile. But, we got full benefits and 'workshare' which was all done through the company, we just signed papers, and the checks were supposed to come. Like 40%, even less then unemployment, but you could still work some hours...some shyt like that
I had money saved, and was ok, but all my coworkers had families and kids, and when those checks didn't come, week after week, as it got closer to Christmas, my heart went out to them....I had my own thing on the side, so i was straight as it gained more traction, and three months into 2009, I got like 10 checks, like 2,000, the backlogged unemployment...I collected some, and I didn't even need it, after awhile I quit all the jobs, I'd rather not get those checks...going into the bank with them was awful. I wanted to launch into explanations and start pulling out rolls of cash, 'You see the thing is...'
I havent been unemployed twice out of my 12 years of working and no i havent been unemployed for 4 years.