I know of a couple with two kids, that once BOTH had jobs. He an admin of some sort and she an RN. They slowly became addicted to gambling of any form, mostly video games and VFW bingo, etc.
Round about the time when Obama became elected, both of them ‘lost’ their jobs. Their daughter supposedly has epilepsy and is on SSI/DI I guess (she never worked). Neither of them still has a job although I’ll be damned if I can figure out how an RN can’t get a job.
Both of them are complete slobs, on UIC, getting disability money for their daughter. If you could take a gander at their wallets, there’s likely EBT and SNAP documentation there. Their car is adorned with Obama sticker.
I listen to them occasionally, they complain how tough it is for them, yet put $20 bills in the video games consistently. They can’t scratch up a hundred dollars between them, yet they can gamble. Overheard the wife the other day - their home airconditioner broke down and they didn’t have enough to repair it - they went and bought three $60 window airconditioners and are dumb enough to claim “the electric bill is less.” They know their house looks like white trash central but don’t care. Their likely unrepossessed PT Cruiser has two completely bald front tires. In short they are leeching, disgusting sloths.
They will NEVER go back to work because all they do is show up in what looks like the clothes they slept in and gamble each morning. They then proceed to make their ‘rounds’. If I knew where to call, I’d drop a dime on them with whoever is responsible for making sure the daughter with epilepsy is being taken care of with the money we give them.
There is no value added with these two. I’m afraid their type outnumber the legitimately needy people who don’t intend to be leeches.
My niece discovered as she was graduating with her RN that there were no open RN Positions in the entire state of California.
The daughter in law, who is an RN, in a major East Coast facility reported that they too had no open positions.
Someplace somebody has an opening ~ but it's not like it was. For one thing no one is offering to pay back your tuition just to get you into a cardiac surgery suite.
Over in DC where the nurses are all unionized no one has threatened to strike for a very long time.