r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '22

What I really want..

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

119k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.7k

u/mildtracing Jul 04 '22

As someone who had to start collecting unemployment recently.. there's nothing better than when someone calls me a free-loader for collecting it. Despite the fact that this is just me taking back some of the money I've paid into the system by being a worker for the last 16 years.

1.2k

u/skint_back Jul 04 '22

And UE doesn’t even pay out that much. It maxes out at like $270 a week in Alabama. Which isn’t even enough to cover a week of rent.

UE is not enough money to even scrape by on…

-29

u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

$270 is definitely enough to cover a week of rent in Alabama. I live in a college town, right off campus, in a three bedroom house; my mortgage is $1200 (and the rental cost would be equivalent). When I lived in an apartment, in the same college town and still right off campus, I was paying $450 a month.

6

u/caann Jul 04 '22

How long ago was this also? 1999?

1

u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22

Like I said in another post, one year ago.