Re: BBC Puzzle

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:14:51 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:25:15 -0700, Joerg
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:33:00 -0700, Joerg
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:11:32 -0700, Joerg
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I thought the period had been extended to something like 18 months?

Nope. A friend of ours just lost her job because the employer simply
couldn't pay here anymore. She said that if she doesn't find a new one
until October there would be a crunch since unemployement will run out
by then.

Apparently that "extension" thing was a few years back during another
"crunch", Arizona is now back to 26 weeks also.

It ought to be a function of jobs available, not just a fixed period
of time.

I note that a lot of retired folk are bagging groceries at the Safeway
down on the corner... I bet that pays more than minimum wage ;-)


Not a whole lot more I guess because it's unskilled labor.

Safeway is unionized... cashiers get $35/hour ;-)

Some older
folks can't make a living without a job. But I also know a retired guy
who certainly didn't need the extra income yet worked at a hardware
store for over a year so he didn't get bored.

I can understand that. Why do you think I keep working?

The best was a guy at a
client a long time ago. In his high 70's, final assembly, where I had to
find the root cause of a problem. I asked him why he still worked there.
His answer: "My wife said I either go back to work or she'd file for
divorce ..."

I don't have that problem at all... I've worked from home since 1973.
I even help my wife "engineer" some of her gourmet creations... for
instance we're building a cake right this minute that will look like
an all-decked-out Mexican sombrero when finished ;-)

And our continuing joint project is creating cloth place-mats and
napkins appropriate to each holiday meal... I'm quite expert at sewing
mitered corners ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Well, since I am now unemployed, I have spent a lot of time
landscaping the back yard! Since Cadence gave me the axe, I have
built a little deck (16x12), built a fountain with a custom stone
waterfall, planted three additional fruit trees, ran power from my
pool pump house out to the deck and the fountain, and I am now laying
concrete pavers to the fountain and the area around it.

I look for work, but as long as unemployment lasts, all our expenses
are met, so there is no big urgency. So far, all the best places I
wanted to work were laying off people, not hiring... :-<

Now incorporating, so if I do land some consulting, I can do the
finances right...

Charlie
Edmondson Engineering
.

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