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Talking Mission Hill - Unemployment Part 1 (or Brother's Big Boner) (Patreon)

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2020-06-05 04:01:00
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2023-01

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This week we're taking on the last episode to ever air on The WB—and to add insult to injury, it's the first part of a two-parter. (Meaning we'd have to wait two years for the Adult Swim run to discover the fate of Andy!) When Ron gets busted by the IRS, Waterbed World goes bye-bye, as does Andy's job. This leaves Andy with no choice but to pound the pavement looking for rent money while Kevin becomes the temporary owner of Ron's very high-maintenance sports car. Listen in as we put the "fun" in funemployment with this very late '90s exploration of joblessness!

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Dan Vincent

Hondas were probably safe in Ohio, as Honda has been manufacturing motorcycles since the 1970s and all sorts of cars near Columbus, Ohio since 1982.

Andrew Grieve

Since Unemployment (UI) standards differ from state to state, I won’t deny that it requires an insane amount of hoops to jump through before actually receiving payment, but I did receive it a few years ago for being fired from a job. Depending on the state laws and regulations, which are tilted towards the employer, there are loopholes where you can collect if you were fired and it fits within an “acceptable cause” by the state, OR the employer fails to accomplish a few things on their end like fails to have you sign a company manual, or they fail to give you a warning before firing, etc. It’s still very tough to collect and if you’re in a red state, it’s even tougher since you will have situations where the UI Agency is broken on purpose so that you’ll be in a bind to get a new job that much sooner if you don’t meet the requirements or jump through the hoops. In Michigan, I filed when our governor was Rick Snyder, who notably tried to automate the UI system which led to the entire system breaking down(which is another story in and of itself), but this followed that disaster so the agency was back to being staffed up, however there was no “hotline” number you could call. I went five weeks without hearing a thing from the state until a random phone number called me and it was my case worker. If it weren’t for that case worker calling I would have had no way of knowing the status on my case or my payments. Now that our current democratic governor has improved the UIA, there actually is a hotline you can call but it’s been flooded with calls over the past few months to the point where friends tried calling all day to never get through. Fortunately, our governor used emergency powers during the pandemic a few weeks ago, to lift the requirement to get unemployment cases to insure recipients get their funds faster. But I knew that feeling of waiting a full month with no incoming money whatsoever and fretting over which expense you’d pay first over others, and I completely sympathize with anyone in either applying for or unfairly being denied for UI. We all pay for it out of our paychecks after all, so we shouldn’t have to suffer when losing a job, but I know, it’s one of those “it’s a feature and not a bug” things so I’m just preaching to the choir here. UI discussion aside, at the time I collected I actually did a rewatch of Mission Hill with my then- free time and both of these episodes absolutely gutted me. No show ever since, has nailed what it’s like to be unemployed in your 20s quite like Mission Hill IMO. Part 2 was a piece that felt like a reflection of my life at the time and I look forward to next week’s take on it!

Bryan Field

Bob, I also very much remember organ stores in malls. My father played organ and we had a simple one in our home, but when I was young we would always stop by the organ store at the across-town-mall (that mass, by the way, was the mall featured in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure) to play around with the two level organs before hitting the A&W Restaurant (root beer with a side order of Dagwood from Blondie as the cartoon spokesman) and then a stand alone Orange Julius before heading home. It almost seems like another world now. Around the same time, in Phoenix where I grew up, there was also a restaurant called "Organ Stop Pizza." A pizzeria with a huge Wurlitzer theater organ from the 1930s. You would order a pizza, sit at a long common table like in a cafeteria, and put in requests for the organist to play songs while you ate. It is apparently still there and operating, but I haven't been there in probably thirty years.

Anonymous

Here's my experience! So I was on Unemoyment between January and April 2019. I live and work in Columbus, Ohio. I had been a contractor working in accounting/finance roles. I had left a contractor position that was indefinite (basically you're treated as a regular employee without the benefits) to accept a much better contract position that would only last for 5 months. It paid significantly better, helped me expand my resume and I hoped that I would find a place in the company for me to be employed afterwards, but I did not. That's when I learned what I think must be a dirty secret... Because I was technically an employee of the staffing agency and they had failed to find me my next contract position, I could successfully file for unemployment. Some also relevant information is that employment had to be for a minimum of 20 weeks to qualify, which mine had justified exceeded. I also was allowed to stay on unemployment if I had rejected contract offers from the staffing agency that didn't have the same or greater wage. That might sound picky, but it prevents them from kicking you off unemployment by sending you a job you're incredibly overqualified for. I tried to hold out on unemployment as long as I could while trying to find a job that wouldn't take me backwards in my career development. However, the mental stress coupled with feelings of embarrassment and inadequacy (which obviously are delusions of our culture, but real experiences nonetheless) forced me to take a worse contact position before my unemployment "ran out". I am now for the first time an actual employee with benefits (yay). It may be soul crushing office work, but given the current global situation I am very grateful.

Angel

I wasn't ever qualified for unemployment since I quit all of my jobs. However, my former roommate got fired from Ikea for defacing a piece of work property (I am not going to tell you what he wrote on it) and he qualified for unemployment. He was married to a very controlling woman who did illegal activities that ended up being the reason I eventually moved out. She would nag him to get a new job since he was the one who paid for rent not her. She made enough money from the illegal activities to at least front him until he got a job. He did eventually get a new job. He did used the unemployment for transportation to go to interviews, so I am assuming he didn't make that much in unemployment.

Anonymous

The discussion of buying gasoline reminds me of this completely absurd conversation about it featuring Shaquille O'Neal. I've gotta believe Shaq is doing a bit here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuH91bQXDuE

Cody C.

Definitely spent time on unemployment in New York - I was never compensated nearly enough to survive, but the first time unemployed my former boss was super sketchy and super pissed off that I got him to agree to pay into my unemployment insurance (he was trying to dance around that he was cutting payroll which he would do by cutting 3 more positions of an 8 person business) but when pressed about why I was being let go after over a year and not replacing my position, he could not come up with a reason why - so yeah, he had to pay. He was a Brooklyn trustfund food start up idiot that wanted all of his employees to be his friend and he ran his business into the ground. He used to be mad that I would rather work than do yoga with the team. I worked because I knew an hour spent doing yoga would be an hour of unpaid labor I would be doing later. Fuck that job and fuck that boss.

Andrew Bouvier

One thing that always struck me as odd in this episode is Kevin saying that Organs aren't cool/fun. An old-timey, lame, organ sing-a-long is exactly the kind of thing Kevin thinks IS fun. It makes sense he freaks out AFTER he finds out that's where the $400 went, but I feel like there could have been a quick few lines from Kevin where he congratulates Andy on finally having fun without anything Kevin considers a vice, like alcohol, sex, etc...before he finds out the organ is why they're broke and freaks out.

Anonymous

When I worked at Starbucks, I lived off sandwiches and pastries that they told us to throw out. When I worked at GameStop I stole every game I was told to field destroy. Fuck um.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I guess it's not surprising given how shitty the WB treated Mission Hill but what a fucking insult to everyone involved by making the final aired episode one half of a two-parter. At least it got to be shown to people eventually and the DVD set is readily available online at this point. -- It's really gross to me that so much media (for decades) has been about how capitalism and shady owners fuck over workers and yet it's just been allowed to get worse and worse. Watching this during what is hopefully a pivotal point in pivoting to better conditions in a variety of sectors has made me really conscious about how little has gotten better (or in some cases, changed at all) in the last 21 years. I hope to revisit episodes like this some day when the world is better and think about how hellish the show is rather than how it's essentially tame by the real world standards today.

Anonymous

There's a trick to get past the vacuum seal thing in california, you pull the trigger only halfway Its how you fill those portable gas containers Also the best car I ever owned was a 97 Honda accord had almost 400000 miles on it when it died