How Texas Unemployment Really Works (TX)

December 27, 2009 laid-off
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When I was laid off, I knew I’d get “unemployment”, whatever that was. But there really was precious few actually helpful articles online. So, here’s my general guide for a Texas employee: What you get paid If you worked for the last year, and generally made a good living — something like over $50,000 a [...]

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Unexpected Awfulness Post Layoff: Sharing a Computer

December 21, 2009 laid-off
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Sharing a computer sucks. I mean obviously this is tagged as a first-world-problem; if I could change a couple of problems in the world, it’d go like this: world hunger, all-get-along, healthcare, and then probably eradicating computer sharing. Like most couples, once the offspring go to bed, the TV turns on and both parents are [...]

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The ManCard Theory (And my application)

December 17, 2009 Men
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Friday night I changed a tire. In the rain. With wife and baby in the car. Gleaming to my wife about my awesomeness, she kind of shrugged and asked why that was a big deal. Ummmm, what!!?!?! Internets, I mean really. It might be a given that a man should be able to change a [...]

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Wolf? Dog? Baby?

December 11, 2009 offspring
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Yesterday @awo took lilJ to the local library for Toddler story time, which I’m told was awesome because of the puppet show. Frankly, after hearing there was a puppet show I should have gone. Anyways, one of the other toddlers there had a stuffed dog. We’re not sure of the brand of dog, but early [...]

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One Year Ago

December 10, 2009 year-ago
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I like to compare, so here’s a picture of lilJ one year ago today. LilJ is 12 weeks old here and was only now getting his figure. Still happening alot: Spitting Up. Here, @awo and I took lilJ to a Christmas Tree Farm to get baby’s-first-christmas-tree. You know, for the preshush memories. We walked to the [...]

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Laid Off? Appreciate 1 Thing Today

December 10, 2009 laid-off
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Laugh and the world laughs with you. Get laid off and you might be cast aside alone. It happened to me in August 2009 — co-workers who looked up to you and got along great with you are now afraid of their own jobs. And if your previous company’s culture was toxic, they may feel [...]

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