I’m on temporary lay-off since July 01.09. Today I get my unemployment package telling me my total benefits are $40, not weekly, TOTAL.

WTF, I’ve been working for that place for almost 2 1/2 years and all I’m getting is $40? Then I look closer and see the name of a place I worked for last year, for 2 weeks until Gustav made a mess of things.

This must be a mistake I’m thinking, placing a call to the unemployment office and can only get a recording, no humans work there!

For most of the afternoon I’m trying to track down the chairman of the board, he’s out of town, but I get his cell phone #. Great!

So I’m waiting until 7pm, to not interrupt his business dealings, and I explain to him my reason for calling. “Yeah,Yeah I see, but no we don’t pay unemployment. We don’t have to, we’re a non profit, a church. Nothing I can do.”