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Employment Development Department
4 reviews for Employment Development Department
I've joined millions of Americans in being laid off from work.
While I'm pretty optimistic about finding another position, after 30 plus years of contributing to unemployment insurance, I'm making a claim. So far, so good. I've been able to do everything online.
I did have to laugh when on the EDD website it talks about "building a resume". First you need to put a summary. That makes a lot of sense. Here's the kicker. On the EDD site for summary, you get a whopping 200 characters. Not words, characters! Hmmm...how to distill 23 years into one sentence. I did toy with "I am the most fantastic fundraiser EVER!" but decided that just might backfire on me. I'm excellent at what I do, but best ever?
Moving on the work experience, you need to summarize your work in 500 characters. Hmmmm...another nearly "Mission Impossible" task here. I appreciate the need for brevity, but this is ridiculous.
I am not counting on EDD to get me another position. That's my responsibility. As long as I get unemployment checks and I'm waiting with baited breath here, it's all good.
the basta*ds at EDD are too stupid to hold a real job, or they are power hungry dolts who think its 'cool' to have life or death decision making power over hard-working Americans. They should be chased outta town! Now their phone number has a cute little tag..." We are receiving more calls than we can handle. Please try again later." WT F?? That message has been on for 4 weeks. I guess that these assho*es are playing hold-em with my money, and can't be bothered with trivial tasks like customer service!
it has been five months now since i got laid off from my job at earthlink. a job that i held for seven years and three months. when they gave us the news of the cuts, we were assured that they would do everything they can to assist in "taking care of us"... ie.. job fairs, meetings with EDD, referrals, etc. when the folks from EDD came, they gave us all the info that we needed to file for unemployment and other benefits we can receive while searching for a new job.
my plan was simple. (and it was my plan before i got news about getting laid off.) i planned to switch careers and pursue my passion in makeup. that plan wasn't going to change. it has taken me long enough to figure out what i really want to do. no one and nothing is about to hold me back now. the change in circumstances was merely God's way of kicking my ass into gear. i was thankful and relieved. i no longer wanted to be in a job that i didn't enjoy.
so i rearranged my plans so that i could start school sooner and get my new career off to a good start. the EDD folks did say that if i wanted to go to school, i could do that. just let them know and i can receive my unemployment checks while in school.
well...they lied. or maybe i didn't file correctly. or maybe i SHOULD'VE lied. but noooooooo. jilly decided to be honest... and not cheat the system. i filed my application letting them know that i would be going to school full-time for 10 weeks. 10 weeks is not a long time. i wanted to get it out of the way already before i ran out of my severance money. my EDD telephone interview went like this:
edd: so you won't be able to look and accept a full-time job right now?
me: not right now becuz i'm starting school. it'll only be for 10 weeks.
edd: what are going to school for?
me: i'm going to makeup school.
edd: is that what you did before?
me: no. i'm switching careers.
edd: why? why don't you stick with what you know?
me: becuz i'm not happy with that kind of job.
edd: oh.
a few days later, i received a letter informing me that i have been denied of unemployment benefits becuz i was unable to accept a full-time job at this time.
bastards. thanks for the support, buddy.
now that i'm done with school, i was finally able to file another claim and now i can honestly say that i am looking and i can accept a job. whether or not i want to is another story. if it comes down to the nitty gritty, i might have to get my ass back in the corporate world... but i'd rather not. last news i heard was that my case has been finalized and that i should be receiving my checks soon.... uh huh. still waiting....
but my passion keeps me goin. :D
this is a little story of how the sacramento edd ( employment development department is cheap and cant pay honest hard working folks like me and how they will screw you out of money that is owed to you. back in february 2008 when i was still living in vallejo,ca. i l was laid off from my truck driving job that i had for the past 8 years. so i took a temporary security job working at a nightclub in antioch as a bouncer. i was only working 4 hrs friday night and 4 hrs saturday nights. when i filed for unemployment which took a while to get through and started. like 3 weeks. i was with this company for only 1 month before i deccided to move to chico,ca. then i went to salt lake city utah for 1 month to refresh my learning skills as a truck driver. in my 1st telephone interview with some little english speaking asian woman i expressly told her that i was in truck school. that the security job i had before was only temporary. i did not report at first the 2 weeks of my security job earnings becaause i know i wasnt going to get credit for that time anyway. but after 2 weeks i reported my income to edd because i wasnt sure i was going to stay on with them because they kept promising me full time work but it never happened. that security company was called tin star security out of sacramento,ca. so edd finally paid me some benefits. when i returned from truck school in utah edd said i had to pay them back the 600.00 they gave me. well, i refused to pay them back because that was money owed to me for the time i was unemployed. so from april 2008 to now they still havent paid me a dime. i still wasnt able to find a truck driving job after i came back from utah. trucking companies wanted people with more recent driving experience they said. so i had to appeal edd's decision and go in front of a judge 3 times already. edd sent me a letter saying i had to earn 1,920.00 to remove the disqualification so i could get my benefits again. well, i was able to get a 1 month seasonal job hauling rice . enough earned (3,000.00) to remove the disqualification. so i had to go back and appeal their decision not to pay me once again. the judge said i have proved i earned enough to remove it and start getting my benefits. even to the live edd person (lydia) via telephone conference call. well, later that day lydia calls me back and tells me that i have to serve a 9 week penalty now for something that happened way back in march-april 2008. supposedly because i gave a false statement because i didnt report the job right away. i tried to explain to her just like i did the asian lady in the beginning of all this mess i didnt report it right away because i wasnt sure if i was going to stay on with the security company or not because it was only 8 hr aa week. next thing i know is i get a letter 1 week later telling me that i now cant file for unemployment until 2011. what kind of donkey show are they running at the edd. ive worked hard all my life and noww when i get laid off they wont pay me my benefits. so i have to appeal their decison once again. still havent heard anything for 2 weeks now from the yahoos at the edd aabout my appeal. they will try and find some way to cheat you and some loophole not to pay you your unemployment money. why dont they investigate all the mexicans who claim benefits who yet still get cash money for side jobs or the illegal nannys and house keepers in marin county who claim benefits yet get paid 15/hr under the table by their employers. like lydia shorenstein and maggie courtney and the shepplers in marin county. why dont edd get off their a##**** and actually do their job and help people that really deserve it. i think they have have rule book their that gives all the excuse to hard working AMERICANS who they dont want to pay but will give our hard earned tax money to illegals and freeloaders.end of story.
