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People who do not want to work

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Texashiker

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My wife and I know a certain family that the husband/father does not want to work. He works temporary jobs that he knows will last only a few weeks, maybe a few months, gets laid off, draws unemployment for as long as he can, works a few weeks or at the most a month, gets laid off, draws unemployeement for as long as he can,,,, repeat.

In the past year, he has only worked about 2 - 3 weeks. The rest of the time he has drawn unemployment benefits. For a long time the family was on food stamps, but the unemployment benefits + wifes job = too much money and the food stamps were taken away.

The wife works a full time job and makes just enough to pay the basic bills.

When I told the guy about a job paying $20 an hour, he made the comment that $20 was not enough.

He is a high school drop out
No college
No skills or trade, except manual labor
Has 2 young children and 1 on the way

But $20 an hour is not good enough for him?

The wife is now expecting their 3rd child, unemployment benefits are running out and no job prospects because he does not want to work at a job that pays less then $25 an hour.

With the holidays coming up, I look for the wife to have a breakdown over the bills and having to buy gifts for the 2 kids.

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*REPOST** *FoBoT*
 
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Some people you just can't help. Get the kids a few small nice things for Christmas and be done with it. Drop them from your friends list.
 
i have turned 180 degrees on this issue
i say let those who don't want to contribute suckle at the teet of society for as long as they want
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Fausto said:
You already made this thread.
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I might have posted about it a few months ago, but that might have been a different family.

The mom of this family found out she is prego last week.

I am thinking to myself "you do not even have money for food, but you get knocked up?"
 
I never want to work, but I do it because I'm responsible. $20 not being enough is horseshit, though. That guy needs his ass beat for being such a useless member of society.
 
How does this even work? I thought you needed to be with a company for a pre-determined amount of time (3 mos IIRC) before you can draw unemployment?

Maybe other states have different rules on this though.

My cousin is like this currently, but he worked in the same physical labor job for 20 years, then his job moved out of the country and he was able to stay on unemployment for 2 years. I think he said that his union helped him collect for that long because of some law when companies move out of the country. Either way, instead of looking for a job, he just researched ways to keep collecting unemployment benefits.

When the state told him that he needed to show proof of looking for a job he would apply for jobs he knows he wouldn't get.
 
Fausto said:
It's the same thread and the same thread title.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2186910
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Yep, same family.

I forgot I posted that thread.

boomhower said:
Why does the wife put up with him? Divorce him and find a real man who will support his family.
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Blind loyalty.

Its the same thing when a buddy of mine whos wife cheated on him, and he told the witnesses they were liars.

After the wife cheated on him with at least 2 different guys, the husband "finally" put the pieces together, but not until after just about all of his friendships have been destroyed.

When the husbands friends approached him with the evidence, the husband sided with the wife and turned his back on his friends. One long time friendship of about 10 years was ruined because the husband sided with the wife and her denials of the affairs.
 
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Did you ask him why he thinks he is worth $20/hr? Did you ask him how much his unemployment check breaks down to if you assume it is for a 40 hr work week?
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Did you ask him why he thinks he is worth $20/hr? Did you ask him how much his unemployment check breaks down to if you assume it is for a 40 hr work week?
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No, but I should.

I "think" the unemployment check equals about 300 a week. Taxes are not taken out of the unemployment check, so the family will have to make up the difference at the end of the year.
 
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