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12-19-2021 04:37 PM
@KingstonsMom My experience with UI comes from 32 years of work with the state employment service with about 8 years of it supervising a unit of claims investigators and 7 years as a manager supervising the payment of claims in a large chunk of West Texas, in addition to overseeing many other programs.
Is that adequate? If I were your daughter, I pursue collecting what she is owed possibly through a state legislator if necessary. People accrue a lot of debt while unemployed so I'm sure she could use the money. She could have thousands of dollars due her. If they weren't going to pay her, she should have been issued a disqualification which she could appeal. The squeeky wheel gets the oil.
Let me know if I can help.
12-19-2021 04:46 PM
@tiny 2 wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@tiny 2 wrote:
@Qcloudy wrote:FYI. I read on one of the news casts that QVC said they would pay empoyees their normal salary until the end of the month.
@Qcloudy, 12 days. They are all heart aren't they?
@tiny 2 Corporation pay a hefty tax on employee wages through the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) so they'll have unemployment insurance to help with expenses when they lose jobs through no fault of their own. It's not like they're not contributing. Most retail businesses do not have bottomless pockets.
@Kachina624, I know Kachina. I am just upset about it. There have been complaints from workers in that facility for several years about the extreme heat in that building. They say they have to work with no air conditioning in summer. We have 95-100% humidity in the summer months and it is brutal but there have also been complaints about excessive heat in portions of the warehouse in winter also.
The missing young man was found dead in the building.
Oh no!
I am so sorry that he didn't make it out.
The thing about the summer heat - no a/c? That's awful. I wonder why the excessive heat in the winter, though?
12-19-2021 04:47 PM
@Kachina624 wrote:@KingstonsMom My experience with UI comes from 32 years of work with the state employment service with about 8 years of it supervising a unit of claims investigators and 7 years as a manager supervising the payment of claims in a large chunk of West Texas, in addition to overseeing many other programs.
Is that adequate? If I were your daughter, I pursue collecting what she is owed possibly through a state legislator if necessary. People accrue a lot of debt while unemployed so I'm sure she could use the money. She could have thousands of dollars due her. If they weren't going to pay her, she should have been issued a disqualification which she could appeal. The squeeky wheel gets the oil.
Let me know if I can help.
"Is that adequate"? Really?
I genuinely have no idea what your previous work field may have been, that's why I asked!
I've posted here with you for years, but don't remember you discussing your previous career, but that's just something I wouldn't necessarly pay attention to.
Good lord, I'm going to have a cocktail or two, I need 'em.
12-19-2021 04:49 PM
@tiny 2 All of those huge warehouse buildings are like that. There are constant complaints about Amazon buildings. It's impossible to air condition a building of 1 1/2 million square ft. with high ceilings. Workers know when they're hired it's going to be hot, just like construction workers do. It goes with the territory. I know I've worked under some hot, miserable condition in my lifetime.
12-19-2021 04:52 PM
Haven't read the replies yet but there may very well be plenty of other places they can go to find work. I know that's the case where I am. There are also other ways to earn money (ie etsy, clean houses, etc).
12-19-2021 04:56 PM
@Kachina624 wrote:@tiny 2 All of those huge warehouse buildings are like that. There are constant complaints about Amazon buildings. It's impossible to air condition a building of 1 1/2 million square ft. with high ceilings. Workers know when they're hired it's going to be hot, just like construction workers do. It goes with the territory. I know I've worked under some hot, miserable condition in my lifetime.
I've never worked in a warehouse, so I had no idea.
12-19-2021 05:11 PM
@MorningLover wrote:
This was posted yesterday on..
Rocky Mount Area Chamber Of Commerce facebook
Donations for the employees of QVC can be sent to the
Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce
100 Coastline St #200
Rocky Mount, NC 27804.
Please write QVC Employee Fund on the memo line.
@depglass-Don't know if you saw this, if you wanted to assist those affected by the fire.
12-19-2021 05:14 PM
Things can be replaced, it is tragedy that Kevon Ricks lost his life.
12-19-2021 05:30 PM
@ThinkingOutLoud wrote:Haven't read the replies yet but there may very well be plenty of other places they can go to find work. I know that's the case where I am. There are also other ways to earn money (ie etsy, clean houses, etc).
According to news reports and info from the Chamber of Commerce there, it is a very repressed area and the job market is very, very slim.
People have to drive a good ways for employment.
12-19-2021 05:34 PM
@qbetzforreal wrote:Things can be replaced, it is tragedy that Kevon Ricks lost his life.
Yes, it is. His family said he called them at 1:30 AM on his break, the fire exploded at 2 AM.
None of them knew that it would be the last time they ever spoke.....so very sad.
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