Oh, the poor people who WORK at the unemployment office!

Here we are in our fifth week of unemployment, and still no check. My level of compassion toward the "poor, overworked" people at unemployment is thinning rapidly. I have now spoken to SIX different people, including a supervisor, and nobody knows what they are doing, including said supervisor. I have now been shuffled to THREE different offices, with no answers, only additional questions about my claim. Every time I speak with someone, they tell me that they are "just covering" and it "really isn't my department", only to send me to another person who tells me the same thing.

Seems because part of my work history includes another state, nobody was working on my claim. Seems because I received a couple of hundred dollars worth of vacation, which I claimed on my form where it asked for it, my claim needed to go through an "adjudication process". My sixth contact at unemployment said, "we are just so busy, we even had to work Saturday to try to catch up". Am I supposed to feel bad? They have jobs! And, with all of the folks in NH that are unemployed, keeping them "too busy" to respond to telephone calls and to process claims, why, then, don't they put some of us to work at the office? I guess that is too logical for a government program.

Meanwhile, COBRA is due at almost $450 a whack, and no check coming in. Savings is being depleted rapidly, and I wonder what happens to people that were just making ends meet, who are in similar situations? How are they paying their mortgages, rents, car payments? And I'm supposed to feel sorry for the confused employees at the unemployment office?!