Bureaucracy is the bane of our lives, isn't it? Currently, I have a 'tentative' approval to go to school while on unemployment, thanks to a lovely worker retraining program. Until I have 'official' approval, however, I'm still required to do three job activities per week, such as submitting applications etc.

I asked yesterday when I called, "What happens if I actually get offered a job before school starts? I'll have to decline because I'd be starting school. Will that cause my unemployment benefit to be cancelled for noncompliance?" Instead of a straight answer (like, yes or no) the phone rep could only re-read to me the tentative approval letter, noting that it wasn't an official approval, and then state that I need to keep applying to three places every week or I'll lose my benefits.

So I'm searching, but it seems so odd to me to be applying for jobs that...well, I hope I won't get. That seems to defeat the purpose of the whole worker retraining program.

Where are you, Sooooz? :( I miss you.