Today, while working security at a welfare office, I had to listen as a claimant gushed about her upcoming Caribbean cruise. I work two jobs and haven't had a vacation since 2006. FML
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Today, after being jobless for 2 years, I got a call back for an interview. I was ecstatic until I saw the date. It's the same day I leave for a weeklong, nonrefundable vacation. I applied for the job 6 weeks ago, and since not hearing anything bought the vacation 2 weeks ago. FML
Today, I was looking forward to languishing on the beach for a few days of a “much needed vacation” when I literally got called back into work on my way to the beach. FML
Today, I lost it on my co-workers about how hard I've been working, picking up everyone's slack with no appreciation, and it was clear that I needed to find a job that actually rewarded hard work. As I went to grab my jacket to leave, I saw a cake and gift card for a cruise on the table, from the staff. FML
Today, I found out my work gave me a vacation for my performance. It's a trip to somewhere in the Caribbean, with the nickname "The Sunniest Place on Earth." I have skin cancer. FML
Today, my dad asked me how I would feel about going on an all-expenses-paid, month-long holiday to the Caribbean. I was ecstatic and broke into tears of joy, saying I'd love it. He replied, "Yeah, me too. Shame it ain't happening!" then left for work, laughing his arse off. FML
Today, I lost my job for taking an unauthorized vacation. I just got married and requested time off for the wedding and honeymoon months ago; it was approved then. They forgot, and then got angry because I didn't remind them. I did remind them, the day before I left. FML
Today, I was told I would also be covering some of my boss's shifts next week. She gets to go on a vacation to Europe with the bonus we earned her last year. That's why she was tightening our deadlines to the point where some of the employees had to hire babysitters for their children so we could stay at work. FML
Today, I overheard my co-worker talking about how she's going to Panama City, Florida this weekend and is going to "get lit." It's the middle of the pandemic, and she's going to go party on a beach. She'll be back at work Tuesday. FML
Today, I found out I lost a promotion intended for me because I was on planned vacation. FML
Today, I returned from my first paid vacation in the past 2 years from a place with no cell, or internet. I've just found out that our department has been downsized. FML
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NoraT_fml 6
Gota love people abusing the welfare system...
misspulkadot24 17
And she is applying for welfare?! I hate that some people are working hard to make a living for themselves in these tough times, while others are flying under the ******* radar, and cheating the system. I hope she gets turned down.
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DocBastard 40
Maybe he found work on the cruise ship? You have to find work wherever you can find it, even if it means spending all your time on a beautiful ship cleaning up after drunk idiots who constantly gorge themselves on yet another buffet.
hopsinlove17 26
The buffets are endless!:p
brandonjd25 3
Obamacare! Woot woot....
ArsenalFan12 0
Personally this disgusts me. Working people take all the shit
bjornhilda 1
All the more reason to vote for Romney.
kiraleann 16
You'd think she'd be smart enough to shut her piehole about such things in a welfare office. If the right person overheard her she'd get any benefits she already had taken away for misuse. I hope she actually saved up the money for that cruise over a fair amount of time, it pisses me off that there are lazy assholes out there who decide it's cool for them to take a free ride for a few years on everyone else's earnings. IMO, if you can survive the month on what you make and you're not lacking food or unable to pay all your bills, you don't need help.
Axipiter 24
I deliver these peoples' cheques. I feel your pain OP. I don't even know how some of these people sleep at night knowing they haven't earned a damned thing they've received. Except when they piss off their mailman. Then they'll get a MUCH deserved and earned throatpunch.
rosha267 21
How do you know she was funding it?
ariaofdoom 16
I bet she has an iphone 5 and drives an expensive car, too I am not a big fan of the unemployment /welfare system after I got home from Iraq and was released from active duty and was denied unemployment. I'd deny that lady's claims, if she can afford a vacation to the caribbean she doesn't need welfare that badly.
njgohard 16
Thanks for your service bro/ma'am.
patriot248 4
Yes, I fear the same thing. I have been deployed 3 times to Iraq, going to Afgan in a few months. Vacation..what's that? And they want to cut our benefits to save money?! God bless America but not the greedy politicians in office.
Deltakiss 6
It's sad how easy it is to abuse the system. There's definitely a difference in "unable to work" and "unwilling to work".
chtychtybngbng 11
Please explain to me how you know just how easy it is to abuse the system. I keep reading all these comments about how so many people are abusing the welfare system and living the high life. However, I personally find it almost impossible for anyone to be even living a halfway normal life with the amount of money they receive from welfare. My dad is disabled. He has many health conditions and due to a lack of medical records and an inability to go to the doctors he needs to to gather the proofs wanted, he has been denied social security disability numerous times. It is HARD to get approved for that! In the meantime as long as he submits new documentation every couple months he is eligible to receive $167/month (as long as the state decides to grant it after he sees their doctors). I feel like people make a lot of blanket statements about things they really have no knowledge about and it is extremely frustrating. So not only do you not get anywhere near enough money from welfare to live the high life, most cases the people who receive it really do need it. The state/federal government does a pretty good job of making sure of that by making it so hard to get by requiring a lot of proof of your situation.
thebacons200212 5
Will just be worse if the president is reelected.