calling all those laid off

[Philly Mike]

must be a pain in the ass dealing with unemployment off and on.

Eh, it's not that bad most of the time. It took me two full days (calling a minimum of 40-50x/hour, constantly trying to file online while the site was more or less crashed due to the mass traffic) during the holiday shutdown, but otherwise it takes me about 10 minutes to file online and then another 10 minutes to call and claim by telephone. It's something I'd rather not deal with, though.

well yeah the filing online is nice and quick. I just assumed that when you started again then stopped you would have to call to restart the claim.

I know here in PA for an initial claim you need to call to do so. anything after you can do online. the big pain in the assassinhaiku is like you said, that calling shit is like having a full time job with overtime, because thats how much time you have to invest in orer to get a hold of the person who can actually set you up.