Comments on: Experts: Prolonged unemployment putting strain on mental health

By: Luis D Garza

Luis D Garza — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:32:31 +0000

To all those people who are unemployed just like me!! I totaly get it I’m 54 and just like that lady I too understand. Have tried real hard to get employed permanatly but all I have found are temporary jobs that yeap you guessed it pay 9 or 10 Hr and man I’m a grandfather and it’s hard that I cant take my kids anywhere at all… So
Yes our Federal Government really needs to get a clue
Need jobs but jobs that can sustain us at least
Need to know when is this going to happen 4 four years 5 five years
After that I feel it will be too late for me.

God bless us all and let’s talk to our governors and reps and
get their ***** of their chairs and look around

By: Renea

Renea — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:22:28 +0000

Recently I was contacted by a company that was impressed with my resume, so i scheduled an interview. After filling out the many papers and giving them another copy of my resume, I was told I needed to take a couple of tests. I was amazed as to how many there were tied to the link! I completed the tests and while I was taking these tests I began to wonder! Who comes up with this unneccessary ****! I am 55 yrs old and I dont understand why I needed to take them. They were asking the same dang questions over and over, just in a different way. I have many years of experience working in offices! The funny thing is they never called me back! Guess I was too old for them! Any job you work at they have to teach you their procedures. I feel like once you get older society wants write you off! I believe in GOD and he will provide! But it is really stressful trying to live day to day working on a job that pays 9hr and I cannot even afford to pay for medical insurance. I gotta eat and have a roof over may head! Corporate America look at what you have done!!!!!!!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:21:36 +0000

In response to all stories above, we are not alone. I too am unemployed for the second time in my life. In my early 50s and am shocked to know I am unemployed this late in the game.

For the person who came to Texas to become employed, you should have checked into your the pay scale for your position you were seeking. I have lived in Texas all my life. The state does have work, however they are not high paying jobs to be able to live on. Gov Perry has created jobs, but lets’ face it, they do not pay anything unless you have many degrees. Who can live on 10-12 dollars an hour???

The ex Wal-Mart and Sams’ Club employees…GET AN ATTORNEY!!!!!!! Sounds like you have grounds for WRONGFUL TERMINATION. Do not let them get away with using you to cut their workforce without having to pay unemployment. The person with 29 yrs. You have retirement and other benefits many unemployed people do not have, so consider yourself very fortunate in these times.

The jobs here in Texas that are available now are mostly low paying retail jobs for the very young and these companies are hiring young inexperienced workers. Some are even starting them out with 10-12-15 $ per hr. with very little skills and experience, but because they the mold they are hired! The colleges are churning out an unbelievable amount (in record numbers) foreign students who are getting American jobs while in college. These are jobs with high incomes, 50K to 70K. Believe me I worked temp at a major University last yr. in the Admissions Dept.

The U.S.A. is not making anything anymore here like we used to! The jobs our President saved are Automotive, Union, Wallstreet and teaching jobs. Well we don’t make cars or have a Wallstreet! Or Union work for women here in TEXAS! Things have got to change and I have been through many economies and have never seen it so bad! But I intend to keep on trying and I am not giving up! The people in the Government are truly out of touch with what is happening at the bottom and people who have had their jobs for many years are just as unaffected as the people who run this great country. They have not felt the hardships of what is happening in this economy! Good Luck to all of us and do not give up!

By: Carolyn Jackson

Carolyn Jackson — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:51:25 +0000

I carry a higher power with me daily and I believe that jesus is the key to staying sain right now! I have been out of work for about 7 1/2 months and I feel the lord is training me to remain faithful and wait and lead on his everlasing love. I know through faith that I should put on the whole armore and stand strong and fight my way through this depression, stress and that faith is saying that everything is going to be alright! He’s preparing me! I know that even though I place a lot of applications and called and I can tell no matter what the person say that I’m speaking with that god is in control and that’s what I believe! I carry a sincere heart and I also just completed a course in a whole new careet of medical terminologist specialist, and I get up every morning and continue to apply for a position as “CEHRS”. God has never let me down and my faith in his is so strong and and that’s what I “BELIEVE”!
So to anyone reading this “DON’T GIVE UP! DON’T GIVE UP! God is still in control no matter who don’t believe.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:01:54 +0000

It seems like I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel… This is my second time coming to Texas in search of a better life for me and my kids. I recently received a healthcare certification, but I still haven’t landed a job. I had no other choice but to get government assistance; which was a hassel to receive, but I’m thankful for the help.

I am so stressed out and nervous, but I have no other choice but to hold it together somehow. I can’t sleep at night and when I do I have dreams I can’t even put together. I am so scared. I am scared to drive my car thinking something is gonna break and I will be stranded with my babies with no money to get help; and the people here are not too friendly. I feel like I am in a bubble without a door to escape.

It has to get better one day because it feels like I am at the end of my rope trying to hold on with one hand and hold my kids with the other hand and still juggle bills and every day needs with another hand that I know I don’t have.

I know I am not the only person who feels like this. This dreppresion that I’m in is causing my body to hurt, inside and out. I will stay in constant prayer for each and everyone of us who’s on this page. I believe and I know it will be alright because God has the final answer and He wont leave His children. We are going through this for a reason.

Kimberly

By: Violet T.

Violet T. — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:39:28 +0000

I can sympathyze with the persons who have written above my post. The Workforce Commission is not here to help the persons whom have worked for many years and have paid into their pensions and into their unemployment insurance (yes, paid for by their past employers.) I have recently seen an unjust and unfair system; one who helps those who only work months at a time and come back to restart the cycle…AND those people get unemployment benefits, child care and a host of other benefits. All the while one tries to be a good employee and a good citizen and I have yet be see one unemployment check come in. Everyday I look for work, applications submitted and denied. At this point, I can even change careers, but have found nothing. Thank God for Prayer, a great family and great friends. Help me Jesus, cause I’m at the end of my rope.

By: Sherry Allen

Sherry Allen — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:34:49 +0000

I worked at sam’s club for 29yrs 11mons and 2wks. I started working right out of high school at 18. became a inventory control specialist (audit team). Moved to Mckinney Texas to help my ageing parents so i was able to transfer to that sam’s in mckinney. It was a wonderful club, but shortly after started getting bullied my various management and team leaders. the nic picking was getting out of control. as soon as i decided to call home office about this,the gm reacted and had variuos people watching my every move. On May 18th i came to work with a severe head ache and set at my desk from 9:45 am and closed my eyes,and at 9:52 am the general manager came in my office and accused me of being asleep for seven minutes. I tried to explain to him that i was a little nauseated and that the lights in the building was making it worse. He gave me a look and five days later i’m unemployed. and i’m having to fight for my unemployment. that day was the worse day of my life, i’ve lost my insurance, my years with sam’s club and my income. it’s been 4 months now and i have over 40 employment apps out there, no one has responded. I’m so scared i’m about to lose my house and the cabinets are empty. The thing that hurts the most is \I loved working for Sam’s club, thats all i know\

By: Diane Gregory

Diane Gregory — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:15:21 +0000

I was working for Walmart for approximately 5years…On April 18th 2012 about 2hours I was suppose to leave work I was called in the back office. Before I headed back there a Customer Service Manager said It was nice working with you. I didnt pay her any mind. While in the mangers office I was told I was fired because I ate food at the customer service desk. I disputed that and I let them know I did not eat any food behind there and they could look at the video. The person who actually ate the slice of pizza is still employeed and pizza is still being served. I was told if I had told or let the manager know there was food being passed around I would still have my job… I guess I didnt play or took my job too serious that is why I was let go…

By: theresa G

theresa G — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:56:34 +0000

I am 59 years old Have many talents but due to this economy, I lost everything, I took care of my elderly mother for 4 years, then lost my job, when she ended up in a Convalescent home. The time for unemployment came and went and I went for many months with no income at all then they would give me fed extension only lasted a few more weeks, then again without income until the fed extension came and again… a few more weeks….no jobs, I am a single woman and we ended up homeless for a long time! I think that I was so traumatized me, that it caused me to be so depressed and it takes a toll on your memory. I can see how people are suffering and I care and worry for this whole globe as I know in my heart that it is all messed up, and honestly no one really asks us what we want, and the government does not really have our well being at heart.
I wanted to start up my own business but again I am on unemployment,as I moved to Texas and worked for 8.00 dollars an hour and was again laid off. and again struggling, I only have two more weeks left and have not found a job,
1 question that no one seem to address!
what about those of us who cannot live on minimum wage?
We are a country that is being killed by poverty and poverty is a beast that over takes many, wake up people it is a huge problem and it must be dealt with!
I am really homeless now and can not get help. Need to see our politicians caring for us and ask us what we want for our future. I can not tell you all my life story here but I have a good story to tell and I am intelligent and have skills but can not market my self to get a job unless i get help!
I want to become self sufficient , own my own home and have a future but do not see that happening especially if i am forced to go to work for wages that will not support me. I will still be living a life of struggle.
ok ….i am just trying to tell the truth someone who has power may read this and open their eyes to our reality. finished my prayers are for all of us to have a much brighter future!

By: stephanie curry

stephanie curry — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:21:23 +0000

some people in this world are mental_but_i’m not.