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Just wanted to say I understand how difficult this situation must be for you. Toxic work environments can really affect your mental health. Whatever you decide, make sure you're taking care of yourself too.
Before you quit, document EVERYTHING. Keep emails, take photos if there are safety issues, get witness statements if possible. Also check if your company has an HR department or employee assistance program you haven't tried yet. Sometimes exhausting internal remedies first strengthens your case for good cause if you do end up quitting.
Maybe look into getting a secured credit card? You put down a deposit and that becomes your credit limit. Not ideal but might be better than predatory loans
This whole system is messed up! You need a car to find work but you can't get money to fix your car because you don't have work. It's like they want to keep people trapped in the unemployment cycle. I went through the same thing and ended up taking a payday loan that took me months to pay off. Such a scam.
If you're having trouble getting through to NYS Department of Labor to ask questions or need help with your application, I used a service called Claimyr (claimyr.com) that helped me connect with an actual agent. They have a video demo at https://youtu.be/qyftW-mnTNI that shows how it works. Saved me hours of trying to call and getting busy signals.
I had such a hard time getting through to NYS Department of Labor when I was laid off. Spent hours on hold just trying to ask basic questions about my claim status. If you run into that problem, I found this service called Claimyr that helped me actually reach a real person at the unemployment office. They have a website at claimyr.com and there's even a demo video showing how it works at https://youtu.be/qyftW-mnTNI. Made the whole process way less stressful when I could actually talk to someone.
Keisha Johnson
wait so if i was making $25/hour full time that would be $1000/week which means id get $500? but you said the max is $504 so id get $504 right??
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Miguel Ramos
•Exactly right! If your calculation comes out to more than $504, you get capped at the maximum of $504 per week.
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Paolo Longo
The whole unemployment system is so confusing honestly. I've been on it twice and still don't fully understand how they calculate everything. At least the weekly claim filing is pretty straightforward once you get the hang of it.
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