Showing newest 23 of 45 posts from 02/01/2010 - 03/01/2010. Show older posts
Showing newest 23 of 45 posts from 02/01/2010 - 03/01/2010. Show older posts

Now all that extra heat is working for me its 75.1 degrees inside

Outside My Window

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I guess you would figure out from the picture why I don't want to keep my window open.

Anyway it stopped snowing this evening and workmen were actually chopping the ice off the sidewalk paths. Many cars buried and a few owners digging their luxury items out of the drifts. Of course I am just talking about my street between two avenues. :)


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When someone asks you for a recommendation on Linkedin

Lol

I got hit up several times yesterday and once two weeks ago...

I'm thinking I don't want to have to clean my profile up there, that's not what I use it for...

hmm

Then I came to know that my profile is what they are after are, they've already scoped me out. Dude, I'm a creative.

For the first person I wrote the recommendation and sent it to them for a review. I offered to sit on it for a few more days and they said yes, sit on it.

I was just listening to the guerilla marketer's plan to get a job ahead of the rest of the pack and they are making a deal about this linkedin recommendation. When people look at someone's recommendations they are likely to look into you and offer you a job.

Now that really isn't what I had in mind at all. I highly recommend the guerilla marketer references below. Narrowing down your prospects and having absolute clarity about the job you are seeking, highly recommended.

For non-creative people clean up your Linked-In profile and follow http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-LinkedIn-Recommendation and good luck!

Referenced: December 2009 Reach Personal Branding Teleseminar
at: http://www.reachpersonalbranding.com/resources/interview/

LINKS: Two free offers:

Audio CD, “Guerrilla Job Search Secrets revealed”: FREE audio CD gets you hired, even in “The Great Recession of 2009.” http://www.gm4jh.com

2 hour DVD of live show in Detroit, “Put America Back to Work”: http://www.putamericabacktowork.com/

Handout: Interview Series Handout December 2009

The Early Bird caught the worm, I'm now studying

outside Parker

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I left my upper east side townhouse (I rent, its not mine) at 7am and arrived at the Staten Island Ferry 7:58pm.

Stepping off the ferry and going out to where the buses were I saw that I had just missed the Wagner shuttle, it passed me by. I had to find out where to get it. Lol I asked the police.

Anyway five hours later I was "been there done that." The shuttle I took in was the last shuttle out. I made the perfect time.

Interesting to note all the students in the return shuttle were on internships. All were paying for their internship except one. He had a paying job, not an internship. Yep that's why I chose this program and not the competitor. They were saying if you pay us $125 extra a month you can work in a lawfirm as an intern without pay. Funny I thought. Let's see in 1974 I was the administrator of a law firm at a very young age making more money than they'll ever see. You know just talent, the 4 squares, Knowledge, Skill, Attitude and Habits. Yep I had them down since I was five years old making my first dollar on a beautiful flower I created. :P

So yeah I am five hours behind on everything. Still I can start my studies right away and finish the certificate pronto. Hours is all you put in, hours I piss those away everyday on governmental junk. This is easy.

I have on active file this new law giving employers even more money if they employ someone who has been unemployed 60 days or more for at least year. The employer does not have to pay taxes on that employee. Yep I've got a google alert on that one. Tracking it down. Want to know about all the people who get hired on it and what happened to them during that year and after that year. Why I think I've got my investigative journalism project Woot! Bingo!

Staten Island is amazing in the snow. I took some pictures. Later I'll enhance this post.

The shuttle van did not have 4 wheel drive so we were swerving and lost momentum when we picked up a second group of St. John's students half way up the hill. LOL I said you know I was a ski instructor in a couple of ski towns a while back. Yep all that's missing here is 4-wheel drive. Honestly Telluride and Killington images were floating as I realized the ski bank that I might end on was up the Wagner Hill among snow flakes the size of my the jumbo clip in my hair.

Sometimes investigative Journalism can be more punishing than the law

Today I was thinking about the major wrongs or injustices that had been claimed against as well as many others. I received an invitation in my email to compete for an award on social journalism.

I thought that legislation was the rope that I was going to pull on but whew! how long, how long has this been going on.

Yep, I just checked in my awards closet, if I squeeze it yep I could stand one more award.

Incredibly bad service but yes I am pulling through

1. a. Today I had to call up the school re my voucher since I had not heard back from them. They had the voucher and were trying to figure out what to do about the mistake WorkForce1 in the end date of the voucher. WorkForce one gave me a month to finish 300 hour course. Lol The school said there is no way that can be finished, it takes six months and usually is extended another six months.

b. I emailed WorkForce1 and asked for a correction and they gave one. Then I called the school. I asked when I get to staten island ferry on the other side then what happens. Its not clear. Finally they tell me there is a free shuttle to the school every hour. Maybe not tomorrow if it snows. The weather report states in the afternoon. I will be there right when the school opens.

I really hope this is the end of the muck, I am starting to get upset.

2. After speaking to my next door neighbor about his radio and band practice blasting in my apartment, particularly after 10pm at night and they stating they would keep it down they are at it again. Ah Ha! now I see they are morons. Well I've included in them in my legal brief that I'm presenting to the 45 minute lawyer on Tuesday. Nuff said. I am not their babysitter. All day long and even into the night blasting a radio show in my room.

3. a. I had to call the Henry Street Settlement that was suppose to be a one stop. It was not. All they did was submit my medicaid application. I call them to tell them that the Food Stamp center said they did not handle HEAP. They said that the Food Center did. They asked if I got the food stamps and I said yes. They expressed that they were surprised. Clearly incompetent lol exactly $1,350 to live on for the whole year. What do you think?

b. I researched again and found that you have to go down to 34th street and file for heap. After Staten Island is completed I will make that my next stop.

4. a. I spoke to the senator advocate for the 3rd time about my unemployment and they again had to followup with their contact. I asked them if I can submit the recalculation form and request a Labor Board hearing as they continue on. They said they recommended that. Lol oh really?

b. I faxed my recalculation on with the late statement from Labor department stating that they were right with no reason or explanation.

5. a. I want to take the New York State Real Estate Sales Person remedial course that is now required of all brokers and any one who does not currently have a sales license. I've been working on this for days. Finally I got an answer. Basically I straightened out the school and their accounting billing department. I the two to communicate with each other. I have to find out how much a most likely required useless and pricey book that will be outdated quickly is. I'll try to see if I can get it another way.

b. I think by tomorrow I will be registered for that course. Its really lame what they do in Real Estate Education.


I mean really how pathetic. I want to sue the law firm that played the labor department game of 3 months employment, then let you go, and so on. Then when I force the issue of permanent employment years later because they kept putting me off. I passed in flying colors all of their tests, some of them personally invasive. They used that I go incredibly ill for two days Christmas and the next two days to state they did not need me any more. They sent me a rejection letter in February of that year acting as if they never even met with me, very casually. I worked there I very successfully worked there for five years as a temporary. To top it off the scum rehired me as a secretary a year and a couple of months later.

It makes a very strong statement about the New York State Labor Department and as well the Federal Labor Department and Secretary. It tells a great story about the ghetto worker in the United States. About how color and color alone is used to discriminate. How quotas are established to cross discriminate and how age is a requirement for all employment applications. Above all age is a strong factor of discrimination. We have these fat ass congressmen trying to purge those 60 and over right now. Trying to get them to retire. Lol liars all. They started at big 3 letters in the Hudson Valley long ago. They started purging 35 year olds and that was under President Clinton. How gratifying that the foreigners they used to replace these highly qualified individuals have turned 35 also and they have been let go. The spear head leader of that corporation is where? Somehwere city on some big elephant thinking what a great job they did. What a joke, what a stupid joke about democracy. Democracy is not a desireable factor when choosing a country. The factor is can you work at something that is rewarding to you or are you to be exploited in every way by a bunch of fat asses.




Contact your New York State Governor when it comes to the MTA

Ask your highness Paterson about his hike in payroll tax to cover gaps.


Inquire as to the tax upon small business on behalf of the MTA.


Review congress's $15 Billion Jobs Bill. Employers not required to pay payroll taxes for for newly hired workers who had been unemployed for 60 days or more and.. .only have to employ for a year.

Welcome to the ghetto newly hired workers.


Welcome to a New York State out of control.


Here is the governor's survey on how they are doing. LET THEM KNOW


see: Metropolitan Commuter tax


This word in from our slush team. I signed the petition. I will go to try to attend both meetings.


Please click here to sign our petition and oppose these cuts! Also, please attend the MTA's public hearing in the Manhattan and the NYC Council's oversight hearing on these cuts. Details are below:

MTA Public Hearing

Thursday, March 4, 2010

6 p.m.

Fashion Institute of Technology

Haft Auditorium, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, Manhattan

NYC Council Oversight Hearing

Thursday, February 25, 2010

10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Council Chambers, City Hall

(For a complete list of public hearings by the MTA, click here.)

From Whence is Rock Bottom?

Bloomberg had a response, he said, to those questioning the plan’s viability: “Fuhgeddaboudit. We’re not cutting back. We’re not turning back. We’re still on course to hit our affordable housing targets on time.... Some of us are old enough to remember what New York was like when the city seemed to hit bottom in the ’70s. We saw what decades of housing abandonment and neglect did to our communities. And we’re not about to let it happen again. Not now. Not ever.”--NYU Law Furman Center Event
The 70s, Violin and Childhood Quilt, a modeling agency, housing that constantly let you down
Now please I was a mighty young girl when I brought myself with violin and childhood quilt to New York City circa 1972. No special provisions given to me. I funded myself with babysitting money. I had an interview with the world's top modeling agency. Lol I just wanted to venture forth in the world and it was my excuse. Once I found out yes I was in well then I said no. Lol I proved that I was "beautiful." I refused to sell myself off that way. My beautiful daddy had told me but I had to find out to really know. Lol and I did venture forth into the world.

Typist? lol I was a Texas typing champ (people have said I would not tell people that if I were you).
I worked all hours as a typist, a conference typist at the UN at night, an assistant to the investment bankers at night, cutting their type and professionally pasting it in the right place. Fending off so many employers bombastic advances. I kicked ass even in those days. I put them in their place. I moved on up and up and up. I of lots of enviable certifications in the IT world; lots of experience. I still have plenty of brainpower to go so watch out!

Housing in the 70s?
The City went bankrupt a few months after I arrived.
42nd, Grand Central, YWCA sold housing to Health and Racket Club and kicked us all out in a month.
W 13th, Markle, Salvation Army they kicked out all us young girls to renovate for senior citizens only after a few months.
72nd Street, a Nun's convent. after 6 months I decided to go to London and Paris as a model. lol I got my certificate in French from a place that did not speak English. That was really fun looking back. I really starved because I would not be a model. Especially when I was in this place across from St. Paul's in London with Twiggy's photographer and he said I was the new Marilyn Monroe. I did not even know who she was but I did not want to be the new anyone. My pictures were on Bond Street in London. Fun looking back.
I returned to New York and got my own apartment on West 71st street. It was an SRO and they kicked out all of these aging musicians. I cried when I found out. Equity owns the place now and they charge $3000 for the tiny room that started out $200 but wound up to be $700 before I left 7 years later. The entire time they were constructing all over me. One thing I must tell you is that people were not smoking like they are too day. People had decorum. Though its true right around the corner a monster burned me with a cigarette as she was flailing about with her cigarette walking on the street.

I moved with drummer boy to the burned out section of Park Slope. I think you've got the picture. At least the bright side of the picture. Pure, unadulterated bootstrapping. No help from the city. Lol we did not even have the internet then. I had BBS online though. I was totally in to the information technology from 1968 because I wanted to know.

Yesterday was the first time I applied for food stamps in my life. This is a statement about the city and its discriminations. For I bootstrapped myself to where people with Ph.D's don't go years ago and then I fell because of incredible legislation by President Clinton's democratic Congress that is continued on to this day.

For this food stamp process I had to pay $10 transportation fees and walk through no sidewalk places. I had to get screening in one place 2 hours and then at the food stamp place at 14th street for 5 hours. 5 hours with CNN propaganda programming me. They put your information in the system and they finger print you. They lie about what it means to be in the system. I have to do it because I don't know what the future is. Its just one less stress for me.

Free financial and legal services, finally
In the process I did acquire financial and legal services so I can kick Shitibank's ass and Lenox Hill's ass [after all I've done I received a bill collector threat yesterday] and my current landlord's ass. I will be given 45 Minutes for each. I have my powerpoint presentations for such service ready for next week. PowerPoint? Yes because I already know that I know more than they do. What I want is their connection. I will give a simple 5 minute presentation so when they do their manipulative stuff, I'm like Slide 5. Its a war out there.

I just want to get some of this NYC garbage off of me so I can proceed to my mayoral path. Lol I'll have billions before I come to office. I'll do good for the people instead of poverty figureheads and rich buddies and customers. I have already done good for the people but in the next years I will be doing so much more. I was not able to get my Community Board app in because of the sudden drop in my unemployment and medicaid. I have to deal with that. I was at the last two crucial and needed tests. The only tests I needed and Medicaid dropping me after 5 months of service when asked they stated haughtily that they had sent me a recertification and I had not answered. I asked for Proof and they had none. They had not done so. I gave it to Chuck Schumer over a week ago via snail mail and have heard nothing. Yesterday I reapplied from scratch. I was told it will take 8 weeks to be approved. The only expedition is for pregnant women. I have this bet going who is going to get there first Chuck Schumer or my app? And when Chuck Schumer's crew gets there well they will have learned a valuable lesson.

Housing in the Bloomberg era?

Housing. No I am sorry Mayor Bloomberg but opportunities for housing were far better in the 70s. I'm not saying easy, by no means, not easy. Which would put a light on how incredibly difficult housing has been in the artificially extended Bloomberg era.

Difficult? Valueless housing that is trillions overvalued, overinflated. If you took an introspective look you'd find it is the core of the economic blight. For sure.

What is affordable housing in Mr. Bloomberg's world?

Its Section 8 housing wait list closed since 2007. Its people living in cardboard boxes, dying there, people being transported in the homeless white truck to the boundaries of the city, plane tickets to people who have someone who will vouch for responsibility at the other end. Those people often just come right back to the city.

Its minimum $20,000 for low income people. Its providing affordable housing for those making $70,000 and above. Its Mr. Bloomberg's daughter with a $2.2 million loft in Soho. Affordable for who? Its Mr. Bloomberg starting his mayoral career with $100 million and now with over several billion dollars.

It is corrupt housing and civil courts where you have to be a formidable power like me to win. It is a credit reporting service for landlords that make thousands homeless because some lawyer told them to put their rent in escrow and the landlord took them to court. When a landlord takes you to court its all over for you. You are now a victim of the non-uniform funded by the tenant Landlord credit reporting system. Just love it my last agent charged $150 for a credit check. I watched him commingle the money. Lol commingle hardly the credit check fee is outside of the law. Another company charges just $25 credit check. People constantly lose their credit check fees when its found that a slum landlord took them to court because they fixed their plumbing and rat problem. The tenant loses, not the city, not the landlord and most assuredly not the corrupt housing court.

I realize I am special, I have common sense and experience. The guy below me said about the grossly malfunctioning toilet that went on for 8 months to not pay rent. My friend who owns a coop said do not pay rent. I paid rent. I finally caught the super and brought him in to fix it. I have a record of all that. Now we be going to court for that and other things. They will of course be given the right to settle or as they have put it to me on day one for inquiring about the neighbor's bed bug warning, suffer the penalty. Who do ya thing is going to win despite the corruption. I believe sir it will be me. It will show the dereliction of the City run agency, HPD and the impotence of 311. It will show that affordable housing is a misnomer for further cushioning the butts of the fat hogs of the financial district.

Isn't it true that affordable housing really means affordable for the landlords?

Lol I have never ever had a break on my rent. One thing for sure when Bloomberg became mayor the landlords stopped fixing their apartments. Now why is that?

Another WSJ article mentioned JobAngels on Twitter

So I revisited it. I read every post through November. There was an article written by this game developer company that I am very familiar with. I play their game for competitive research.

They were calling job candidates out for having different job stories on different social networking sites. They were calling those candidates liars.

Hmm Strong words I said for a game company very well known among millions to be a liar. I would not be listening to any advice they had. I would never want to work for them. I want to compete with them.

That's the problem with this market. Suddenly the worst companies and recruiters ever are giving people advice.

I would never want to work for any of these companies.

If a company is scouting out what I do on a social network I really don't want to work for them. If they instead have a business lunch or breakfast with me to talk about what I can do for their company then yes they stand a chance.

That's how I got my job as an officer for an Ivy League college over lunch. I became the administrator for a top brain trust on a conference call with about eight of the top management.

I find all the social networking and blogging for that matter gauche. They each filled my time for my amusement. I'll not be networking on any of them that's for sure. Sure people ask me to be a friend or network or if they can follow and I go along. I'm in the high numbers on facebook because I play a game and on twitter because when I'm active I lead the way. I rarely use LinkedIn. I'm on there as a blogpreneur.

In this fastrac class someone said that you have done so many things and done them well. That is true. Do you have a problem with that? Then I don't want to work for you. There is no problem then, you aren't offering me a job. Right?

WSJ report confirms what I stated to WorkForce1 on my ITGrant

Internal Hires, Referrals Were Most Hired in 2009

What the findings indicate is that networking is the most effective strategy for landing employment. "Job seekers should use job board and corporate sites to find information about openings, but they should use their network to apply,"-- Mark Mehler, co-founder of CareerXroads.


My best strategy was to change fields. I had the real estate education credentials, experience with real estate law, the network connections. All I needed was the certificate credentials. WorkForce1 stood in my way.

The same was true of my Information Technology grant. I had the experience, education credentials, the network connections. All I needed was an update certificate. Again my IT grant was denied.

So now at last I receive a voucher with the least likely networking connections but yes very experienced in the legal field at a higher level than paralegal and of course they say yes. I'm telling them that I can't find work in that field and they say yes.

It appears that voucher is lost or may not turn up until it is expired. I wrote to the post office to please give me the address they forwarded the mail to. If I do not hear back by Friday I guess I will just let WorkForce1 know that I am dropping the voucher as it is impossible for me to be their voucher messenger.

I will not go through the voucher process again. I will not waste another minute with WorkForce1.

I just applied for a Pell grant at FIT. I will proceed.

I was thinking about that manual voucher process and I think it represents

mistrust

and that trickles down into out econo-system and creates drudge or non-momentum.

There is no reason why that voucher cannot go directly to the vendor with an email from the vendor giving start date and notice that must be acknowledged by the grantee.

The current WorkForce1 approach is just another out-of-sync with your customer way to mass waste.

When I followed up with the people at WorkForce1 regarding the status of my grant I was told they had phoned me to come get my voucher a week ago. I have no message in the archives, no record in the recent calls, nothing. Again, I am the one following up with them, I'm the one managing myself.

Which means I can manage my education. I can acknowledge a notice and I can give an electronic signature. And if I can do that, I am quite sure many of the people who receive vouchers for grants from the WorkForce1 can do this also.

Afterall they are trained in computer skills and so forth before they start the grant process.

this trip I have to make tomorrow also has no pedestrian streets warning

Beta: Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.
1. Head northwest on E 87th St toward 1st Ave


Beta: Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.
1. Head south on Rutgers St toward E Broadway

Of course I need not mention the unruly drivers and cabs that are bent on speeding right through you or making illegal and unexpected turns.

They can because the hunt is not where I live.

yet another government subsidized enterprise does an oops this time without a sorry

I mailed the priority mail, delivery confirmation package to the school early Friday afternoon.

It has not shown up at its destination, the vendor, today.

I looked up the delivery confirmation.

I have the delivery confirmation receipt in front of me, stamped by the USPS. It has the exact address of the true destination, the destination posted by vendor as their mailing address on their website.

The usps.com software checked the address and printed the label and confirmation out.

The only reason would be if the college had a forwarding instruction to USPS. They leave me out of the picture with this:

Your item was forwarded to a different address at 7:41 AM on February 20, 2010 in STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301. This was because of forwarding instructions or because the address or ZIP Code on the label was incorrect. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later. The receipt is below.

Track and Confirm

Enter Label/Receipt Number.

Enter Label / Receipt Number.




Detailed Results:

Bullet Forwarded, February 20, 2010, 7:41 am, STATEN ISLAND, NY
Bullet Arrival at Post Office, February 20, 2010, 7:14 am, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301
Bullet Processed through Sort Facility, February 20, 2010, 2:16 am, BETHPAGE, NY 11714
Bullet Acceptance, February 19, 2010, 3:01 pm, NEW YORK, NY 10028
Bullet Electronic Shipping Info Received, February 19, 2010

I am not a robot

Emails are catching up after my last phone conversations with the college. Two emails one from the school that they would lose the money if they lost the voucher and the other from WorkForce1 stating that I have to go to the school to sign.

I wrote back that I am not a robot and to please return what I sent to the college by delivery confirmation. The college wrote they will lose the money if the voucher gets lost. LOL what money? They have not set me up with the course and I am therefore not taking the course. I haven't signed the second line and that is what this petty and non-intelligent conversation is about. I wrote them I do not believe the voucher will be lost. If it is I will send my entire WorkForce1 experience to interested Senators.

My $66 a week zero unemployment benefit plus my income tax return pays my $1100 rent, utilities and food and job hunting.

So they want to take at least $10.00 more of my money and over 3 hours of my time. I already paid $4.90 to mail the voucher. I allot myself $10 a week to eat. This last week I had to deduct the $4.90 and $4.50 for the round trip to WorkForce1 to sign and pickup the voucher. Yes it is a 1.5 hour roundtrip to WorkForce1 with pedestrian sidewalks that you can patch together for a somewhat safe trip.

They are asking me not to eat this week because of their mistakes. Sorry no can do.

I chose this college because the Gaitlin online course is nationally recognized. The program emphasizes research by giving Westlaw access from home and it follows up with free National paralegal certificate training (whether you are eligible to take the test or not).

There was only one other paralegal certificate offering and it was not from a college. It did not allow Westlaw access from home and it made you do the paralegal training manually, that is where the emphasis was. They slated you for working in an unautomated office. geez Additionally you were not getting the full course. You had to pay thousands out of your pocket to do so. They would accept $100 each week to place you in a paralegal internship. You would not be paid. Lol top of the line legal secretary with over 10 years experience who has won four pro se cases this year. Not a match. Who has already done litigation research with westlaw. I have already been trained in Westlaw and Pace.

I was glad to have gone through the WorkForce1 process. It is truly exploitive of the masses of workers.

Unfortunately all of the WorkForce1 paralegal certification training offerings are not American Bar Association recommended, a fact that I pointed out to them. If you want to get a job with a paralegal certificate, you sure better have certified from an American Bar Association. Answer. None. Ignored. I am not a robot.

The dwindling accounts, its their business but I pay for their oops

Today I called up WorkForce1. They said they had not received my email concerning my voucher's second signature. I explained I was taking the Gatlin Online paralegal course. They said that the school wasn't suppose to be asking me for my signature until after the first week and that I could send original signature on a copy of page 2.

I then emailed WorkForce1 again with the previous email. I was starting to faxzero the info when I received another email from them. They stated that the school was correct I had to sign the second line before starting the course. Sorry but you should have signed the second line. See your counselor. Pass.

Remarkable Customer Service Note: I know we made a big deal of not signing and sorry we should have specified there are exceptions please see us if you are taking a course online.

I'm not surprised at this lack of attention to detail. I found such attitude and habit prevailing in the WorkForce1 at Varick (they told me I could not use their center, the federal government knowing my situation wrote back that I could) and at 125th Street (I went through 3 IT work grants and wound up with the lesser one). I researched how other unemployed NY state citizens (the program is open to all of New York State) were faring with the WorkForce1 center at 125th street. Hundreds are saying they don't have training for us that is applicable, they don't have job help. Basically we are not provided with the help we need.

I called the school after that nifty WorkForce1 turnaround. I asked them if they would mail me back the voucher (everything) when they get it so I can sign the second page. I would immediately sign it and mail it. This time of course I'll not do priority mail unless its too thick again :S .

Just received a call from the school. I was talking about the fares to get there. The woman said that actually the shuttle and bus are free if you are taking a subway ride to the ferry. So I will go to the school based upon that conversation? why not? On the college site the directions by public transportation states an additional bus fare and on Google the directions include express buses. The trip each way is 1.5 hours and possible additional fare outside of the base $5 is required both ways. There is a 12-minute walk with

Beta: Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.

Snail mail will be ok.

In 2010 the college was voted #1 in the nation by US News and World Report for two categories; one for post graduate education excellence and the other in attention given to students.

It was WorkForce1's duty to know their business. They knew they had an online education voucher because they offer it in their training guide. They spent alot of time looking at our vouchers before and during their transfer to the grantees. There really is no excuse. Its their business and they should do it remarkably. They factory produce their service and they think that's smart.

WorkForce1 Needs to Get Better at Zoning In

If they used a step through program just like NYC has for its small business licenses etc they could do away with the part that is really just mass waste. They could zone in on the detail that is required. WorkForce 1 should have a survey that the applicant can take from home, library, internet cafe or even in a kiosk at government and WorkForce1 sites. The survey printout would provide the job/training seeker with exactly what courses are available and some of the research that is included automatically in the grant they choose.

Right training, Right grant, Right job.

WorkForce would establish a profile with the information the survey taker provided. Most of that paper work would be on file for the survey taker when they decided to take action. The survey taker could initiate such action online and receive a response that lined up the interview, training etc that was exactly needed. Tons of the mass sessions could be eliminated. The amount of work and expense would be narrowed down to get to the point, right training, right grant, right job.

WorkForce1 could also zone in on the Work; they could become a Purple Cow

WorkForce1 could even do the same for all the businesses in New York City. They could have the job already lined up. Is it true that for every one job there are 20 applicants in New York City? When one gets into the underbelly of the market I think not. But then who, who and who is getting into the underbelly?

I am grateful that WorkForce1 at least answered the phone this time. It would be too too much to have to ask 311 for the fourth time to get them to respond.

We work hard at getting a job

I'm just doing whatever I can to get a job. I feel this certificate will allow me to get a job for legal secretary/paralegal that is quite good in the governmental, non-profit and real estate sectors. Lucky is the person who employees me as I am par excellence on each part of the square.


Knowledge Attitude

Skills Habits



Blue Cross/Blue Shield started our capitalistic insurance disaster

    Blue Cross and Blue Shield Lead the Way

  1. The American Hospital Association designed Blue Cross as hospitals organized to reduce competition for pre-paid hospital services plans. As a non-profit corporation, Blue Cross was exempt from insurance regulations. Blue Shield was born to organize in the same way for physicians, and the ensuing lucrative market enticed other insurers into the health field when they found commercial insurers could charge lower premiums to healthy people, luring customers away from non-profits obligated to charge the same rate for all.--How Did Health Insurance Begin

  2. Note that other countries started offering healthcare to their citizens through nationalized healthcare. The United States did not.

An interesting lesson about buying shoes because the sidewalks are icy

I was taking this entrepreneurial workshop this last week and got stuck in the tourist zone of mid-town manhattan in the snow.

I had avoided getting new boots because my apartment and building have a history of bed bugs. Since its like a dog kennel in this building I vowed I'd not buy any boots until I moved out.

However I was slipping and sliding because the stores etc were not cleaning up the street.

After almost falling I went into the nearest shoe store. Huge mistake. I should have thought go to the last place where you got great shoes and customer service (http://www.yelp.com/biz/clarks-shoes-new-york). Clark's. 993 3rd Avenue, 59 and 60th. Since I am a loyal customer this slip was unfortunate. They make you feel like all shoe retailers operate like they do. It was only four blocks and a few avenues over. That's alot in a city that isn't having their snow cleaned up.


Remember my feet are broken so I'm pretty much always in pain.

This salesperson at Shoemix.com on 665 Lexington between 55 and 56th street told me I should get men's boots when I briefly told him that my feet are arthritic, half broken and I was advised to have them reset. We finally found a pair that wasn't huge. I asked him about the tightness of the leather on my leg. Wouldn't that cut me. He said he never had a customer come back to him with that complaint. He also said I could use rubbing alcohol on the boot. By the time I got home I realized that I would not use rubbing alcohol because that does break down the leather but it also takes the seal off on the dyes that were used and I'm allergic to dyes.

My legs had been cut up by the boots. I took the boots back today. They were worn just to get to the bus but its true their bottoms had been roughed up.

The store, shoemix.com (they gave me a bag with studio 55 footwear on it) refused to take them back. I told them that I had worn out a shoe successfully that came from Clarks. I went back and bought the same style and size but it cut into the back of my feet. Even though I had worn the Clark's shoes on the street to bus to home Clarks immediately took them back without question. As to my wornout through the sole Clarks the store had even offered to replace them for free. I felt that I had received good service from them so I did not consider it.


The salesperson in return told me that he had a lovely couple in the store and they were just the opposite from me. He said the guy said he had learned an expensive lesson that you just wear the shoes in the house for a while. You never wear them on the street.

Ok so this store not only won't take returns but they insult their customers. The salesperson could say that you need to wear the shoes at home before you take them on the street. I just now looked them up on yelp where people log in incredibly satisfying experiences. I could not find Shoemix on Yelp. hmm second lesson I should have taken out my phone and searched on yelp for them, duh. I totally blew my shopping experience.

The salesperson that sold these shoes to me knew I was wearing them on the street and he knew that I had asked about the tightness. Wouldn't you think he would advise to wear them at home before wearing them on the street?

Shoemix is definitely not a company I want to do business with again. Is their shoe defective? I would think so as the leather should not be that stiff against your leg. You would be damaging the shoe to put rubbing alcohol on it. He said to use a butter knife on it. I was thinking that's something they should have done at the manufacturer. The manufacturer of this boot is www.pajar.com made in Canada. I entered my message to them at http://www.pajar.com/en/contact+us . At this link they write:

At Pajar, we care for our customers. If you have any comments, please let us know!


I just let them know about my experience with their boot, the solutions the retailer gave and the retailers refuse on return because of street wear despite they saw that I had a red gash at the point where the upper boot wore on my leg. I did not wear them long.

I don't regret trying to take the boot back. I hope the salesperson who sold this shoe to me took this as a lesson. I doubt it though. It seems I am the only one being given a lesson. The lesson is stick to Clark's. My great aunt paid for those boots by the way. She said to buy some pretty shoes with it. I wish I had.

On the web return of shoes is a hot topic.


I would think that stores are not addressing the problem correctly. Street wear is totally different from home wear, particularly when most apartment buildings require 80% carpeting. The rough streets of New York City particularly during a snow storm are a jungle. Its just not the same test at all. I have a deep red scar on my leg from these shoes. I could have been because of the dyes, but definitely they were rubbing against my legs and making me absolutely miserable for the short time I wore them. They cost $109.

p.s. I had been exploring the vegan solution, the market does not bear it. The Moo Shoes waterproof boots would be rejected by the law firms I work for. I kid you not. Each time I wear my privos I get a call from my agency, they love you but change the shoes. http://www.mooshoes.com/products2.cfm/ID/376/name/Jennifer-Boot-from-Toewarmers/a/3

The City has two codes of ethics, Nah :S


Bloomberg moves his money from the fire and creates his own private equity company to what over business. Hello does this not scream ethics. Mr. Bloomberg is involved in his business and finances and for a city mayor this is not allowed.
See:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/10/2010-01-10_mikes_foundation_takes_hit_investments_with_rattner_firm_flame_out.html


http://gothamist.com/2010/02/20/bloomberg_moves_his_money_from_frie.php

Quadrangle probe run by Bloomberg Friend Rattner
see:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/02/19/2010-02-19_mayor_bloomberg_pulls_5b_of_his_money_out_of_quadrangle_group_co_probed_in_pensi.html


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/01/16/2008-01-16_mayor_bloombergs_moneyman_is_hillary_cli.html



New York State's MTA Chairman is a transit expert but does he know about his Customers?



Notice no reported observation of who MTA's customers are and what they need and how he can solve that.


("Jobless Rate" means only those that are receiving unemployment benefits)


Sign our petition telling MTA Chairman Walder to use stimulus dollars BEFORE he hikes our fares:

http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=781

A company that donates some of its sales to WorkForce Development

the story is here


the company is PlowShares

the product sharing sales is WorkForceBlend



I saved $5.00 today

I had planned to go to Delancey and Essex street to stand in the cold for 45 minutes and then I might just might get my taxes done. I already did my fed taxes on the free turbo tax. Problem is they do not provide for how much underpayment you forked over to New York State last year. Underpayment caused by your unemployment people not taking the tax you asked them to. Ah yes, New York State, a state that is totally at odds with income and the needs of their impoverished, unbenefited citizens. I thought I would get an amended federal return and the state return done manually at center. I already know how to do it. I just wanted to sign up for benefits at that easier to get to location and arrange for the 2 week job hunting boot camp. I might surprised if they find a loophole for me as well.

Sign our petition telling MTA Chairman Walder to use stimulus dollars BEFORE he hikes our fares:

http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=781


I had an inspiration. Since Monday I am retaking my bartender class during the day in hopes of getting a job like now in that field I'll just walk over to the hard location after class and sign up on Monday. I'll manage to go to the easier location on Tuesday for signing up and getting evaluated for bootcamp. Gee I wonder what their terms are. lol can't wait.


I found this nifty sight for the unemployed to keep their job applications, cover letters etc. Its called becomed.com I'll start using it from today onwards. My two CDS are filled to capacity and my 3" binder can't take it anymore. I laughed yes that is a great book on New York State Labor Department and Age Discrimination: The Ghetto Years.

Since Mayor Bloomberg has not revealed what he is doing to stop the gluttony of the MTA (our transit authority ghouls) I might as well find ways to keep cutting down on use of the much bragged about transportation system of NYC. My feet are broken even though I tried to get that taken care of in the two months of Medicaid benefit given me and now taken away. Still I'll save $5.00 and probably some needless exposure to getting sick. The temperature in my apartment is 81 degrees. Noone seems to care. I have the window up a crack for an hour and its 80 degrees. The landlord has been informed three times and the super told twice in person. They never looked at the radiator. This has been going on a long time.


I don't want to waste my time with 311, they are information, all the wrong information. The departments they link me up to as far as housing go no where. I must say though that they did link me right up with WorkForce1 when they weren't answering the phone on three occasions. WorkForce1 has a huge phone problem. They said they called me to pick up my voucher a week ago. Lol I have a phone system that records every call and every message. There is none from them. I'm used to WorkForce1 holding me back from getting a job. How many times can I tell them that I face age discrimination. That one of the ways to circumvent that is to get a certification and degree with a brand new date. lol to you that is.

I don't know what they'll pipe up with Monday. I'll call them during all my school breaks after class while walking to the benefits place beyond delancey street. There is no way I am going to let them get away with a delay. Trust me if you don't follow up with these people or any governmental official and even 311 and its links you are not going to get anywhere. You must reasonably followup.

I think I might squeeze a month more out of my accounts. $10 a week for food. $0 for transportation. $1100 for rent. I can't afford to have another governmental agency fuck me over though. I rely on the Senators to help me beyond that. I don't need lip service. I am maxed out on lip service.

My hope is that I am able to get a bartending job that is somewhat sustaining. Then I'll be the one not answering governmental calls. I won't need you ever again.

Am I doing one of my businesses? Most certainly. I received wonderful tools that I implemented on one idea. That idea will take some skill, authority and relationship building before it can launch. I gave September 2010 as the launch date. I will squeeze in a few concentrated hours on it a day.

I'm on three agencies list as a top notch legal assistant and I have always been. I correspond with them weekly, replying to their availability queries. Next week I am open for nights and weekends. Even if I get a bartending job I'll still answer my agencies. There is no way I'm letting go of that.

If I look at my life and what I have done for other people as well as myself, the taxes I've paid, the companies I have supported. The universe is way overdue. I'm expecting it to deliver.

I talked to the Noisy Neighbor

I'm sorry but it was 10:00 pm on a weekday night and our house rules (signed by both the landlord and the tenant whether rental or proprietary lease) state to keep the noise down after 10 pm on a weekday.

The guy had been blasting this radio show into my apartment for two hours already.

I knocked three times with a polite space of a few minutes between each knock. The guy asked who it was. I just asked if he would mind to keep the music down. He opened the door and he blushed. I guess he did not know that he lived next door to a princess.

Still can't figure out why he never answered my letter, why the landlord never did a thing and why HPD just wrote no further action necessary without notifying me.

The guy is not a musician, his son is. According to this neighbor his son comes and plays occasionally. I stated that I kept a detailed diary as I had written him and asked the landlord about it and nothing was done. The drowning out of my life happens more than occasionally. I said his door slams and the blasting stops and the door slams and it starts again. He asked when I last heard the band playing. I stated two days ago he angrily states then that can't be his son. hmm I have experience with fathers who lie for their sons.

When I was 9 years old a boy came along with a bat and bashed in my bike in front of me. Totally unprovoked. My dad went with me to the guy's apartment. His father lied for his son.

At any rate the guy turned down his radio show and I've only heard it faintly since. The band practice and playing has ended so far.

I guess the weekend will be the true test of what is going to go down.

It amazes me that the landlord made themselves liable for noise habitability of their building via their house rules and yet they refused to enforce these rules when notified three times in writing and twice in person. The neighbor on the other side of me received a note based upon house rules from the landlord. They asked her to stop putting so much trash outside. The guy downstairs (the infamous "barking dog" owner) told her to do something about her dog and put carpeting on 80% of the floor. There was a legal scuffle.

I have to ask is it because we are single women? or because we are rentals?

In either case don't expect HUD to do anything whatsoever. What did they do for me when my last apartment was disabling me? They sat on their chair and did nothing. They wrote me emails that stated that they intended to do something, notes from a phone conversation stated that they were taking it to court because the landlord had not even addressed the situation, not even bothered to come in to the apartment and had willfully mislead HUD as to what they did. What happened in the end? HUD and a private conversation with the lawyer representing that landlord. Then I was sent a letter stating that the case was not administratively feasible in accordance with their mission. Later I was sent another letter that the case was found to have no merit. Hello. That is totally illegal. I have to take them to court but excuse me in three weeks I will have starved for two weeks and will not have enough money for rent. I will be sleeping on a cardboard box in front of some church. So I don't exactly have the means to fight injustice.

But one day, oh boy, one day we will have a very nice supreme court case. A woman not much older than me who moved into an apartment building knowing there was a no pet policy received HUD's speedy attention for prosecution of the landlord because she needed the pet for psychological reasons. The apartment I was in caused me to have asthma, caused me to vomit non-stop due to smoke and carbon monoxide from their inept care of the stove, it disabled me.

That sickness lead me to miss two days of work as a temporary. I was being placed permanently at that firm after five years of service. I was told not to come back again and was sent a rejection letter by that firm two months later. Was it because they were laying off people, not hiring temporaries? Of course not. People in my agency told me they had started working there after I left. Many temporaries were hired. It was not bankruptcy season at that time. I did not work for that firm again for a year. Pretty freakin amazing. No firm would hire me after that because I did not have tenure at a firm. Yes because I was a temporary there the time did not count. That is the persecution I am facing right now. That because I am a temporary it doesn't matter that I am qualified by my earnings to benefits. I am held to the same standard as a permanent person who would not have had to work one single day.

I put this latest NYSDOL bumbling before the New York State Senator as soon as I had done all I could with the New York State Labor Department (NYSDOL) over two weeks ago. I have followed up twice. Still nothing. They agreed that the NYSDOL's position was fraudulent. NYSDOL stupidly placed 00 in quarters where I had sizeable income so that it would look like I had nothing. I however just recreated the statement putting in the correct info. All I had to do is open my 3-inch binder on my prosecution case against the NYSDOL. I won the last case, would they like to go for another? This time it will be in my venue, not theirs. I've read most of their cases, even the brag ones for their Commissioner. Not impressed, not impressive. They are goners in court, that's for sure.

They also left out a major employer. Over the phone they refused to own up and said anyway it doesn't matter what we did you didn't meet all three rules. Just to feel right about it NYSDOL sent me a letter stating that they were right. They did not prove it. I laughed my ass off. Their Rules are discriminatory they create and exclude a ghetto of workers with rules designing to prefer permanent people. The reality is that that all the NYSDOL rules were met by my temporary work and the NYSDOL just hid the fact. How many other people did they do this to so as to achieve the 6% drop in unemployment?

In the last six years I have been trying my best to stay above water. The government should have helped they were helping people who made 3x the amount I made. They did not. I have not sat idly I have worked hard at getting jobs. The three agencies that connect with me each week still maintain that I am their top person. I have added to my skills via the internet. I have been using WorkForce1 and literally begging them to help me after months and months of their lamo changes. What can I do? I've borrowed from my own 401K plan and I've played my credit cards against each other to survive. I have excellent credit.

Interesting to note in this FastTrac class they put a square formula on the board. On the left side the postive traits of an ideal employee, knowledge and skills and on the right, negative Attitudes and Habits. So I ask I have superior knowledge and skills and my past employers write because of her attitude and her excellent work skills and expertise she made one day jobs go into long term spots that we never dreamed we get. She is an asset to our company. My coworkers she is a lovely person to have around. And always always I do the job until it is done and to perfection and it is done most expeditiously. I am always 15 minutes early to work and if someone needs something done as I am walking out I gladly do it for them.

You should cry upon reading this because all that is left is age discrimination founded only on the evidence of a federally required Identification.

I am not mad because when I deal with the government I know I am dealing with losers. So I am of superior mental and intellectual ability and they are swine. Therefore I will win. Its just a matter of time. They are not worth any of my time and I sure would not give them my life. It does make me cry that I have had to give them so much of my time and my precious few dollars. The government is not a representative of the people. I do not know what they are. All I know is that they are inept at their job, highly inept. Challenge them and you will win. Never take no. Take them to the higher courts. Do not let them rob you, they are swine.


When Yes Means No and Bright means Blight

Honestly one would think the future was bright for me.

I graduated from the New York City FastTrac Venture program this week.

I received my WorkForce1IT grant voucher for Paralegal certification today.

but humma Sent the voucher to the school by priority mail and scanned even the stamped receipt with voucher. I received an immediate reply that they would set me up based upon the email.

However they hoped that I had signed the bottom line on the page 2 of the voucher. Something WorkForce1 repeatedly told us not to do. If we did not like the school then after the first week we could change to our second choice.

Since the school is too far away for me to go in and sign the second page after the first week I was told No. I was told not only No but don't blame them blame WorkForce1.

I had written them I have a copy of the second page and I will sign it and mail it to you after the first two days. No.

In legal terms such signature would be valid. They would have two pages with signatures. Both pages would have my original signature. The first signature has nothing to do with them anyway.

I forwarded the conversation to WorkForce1.

As the guy in Texas wrote the government is insane, indeed, he is right. Why is the government trying to blight that guy's reputation. I've been through the absurd of the government and I found nothing wrong with what he said. Then again I'm not a big fat ass.

Get Mad or get Snail Mail 1.0; Get Chuck

So who knows if yesterday's post ever went through. That's what kind of day it was yesterday.

This morning I called HIP from whence the very informative "Sorry to see you go, NOT!" letter came. I convinced the individual who received my call to enter 180 days continuance for me. I need about 30 billing days of that then I'm like, take it, keep it away from me already. These ultra helpful folk stated at the end of the conversation, but you must call Medicaid. I thought they gave me a Yes, but then they gave me a No.

I did call Medicaid. They had no mercy. You did not return the renewal to us. Wait a minute did I call HPD instead, pinch. Nope I called Medicaid. LOL I'm pretty sure there was no renewal. I still get forwarded mail from that address. How come all of their other communications keep coming out of that sore spot in upper Manhattan, forwarded? hmmm

Medicaid logic is mindboggling. If they ended my benefits on January 10 and their communication that I had some benefits was dated May 29 2009 and received way past June, humma? Sure didn't give any time to return such renewal. Do I seem like the kind of person not to give a very important benefit my change of address? LOL I have the Medicaid paper that I was there in their office way after I moved. I wrote my new address on every paper they put in front of me. I called Medicaid four times and complained bitterly to HIP that my address was not being changed and that could result in some communication problems. Just a couple of weeks ago HIP got it, my address is changed with them. Give it up already.

I asked for the Supervisor at Medicaid. She was nice enough but said nothing she can do. She was willing to give me the Board # and the Conference #. LOL no way I'm going to waste my time on months of lawyering again. What is this anyway? Victim month?

I immediately searched for Chuck's FAQ. How to do business with Chuck. Chuck wants Snail Mail 1.0 and a Privacy Act release signed, allowance to discuss what you give him with anyone. For all I care tell Oprah. LOL Alright. Its about time. I appealed to Chuck's first adopter sensibilities, to any edge that he might possess. The first three paragraphs of my Snail Mail 1.0 clearly and adequately informed my reader(s) of the problem and what I needed from Chuck. I attached the paper trail. Then I wrote a story for the next 3.5 pages. That should give him plenty to talk about.

What Chuck Wants, Chuck Gets :)

See Help with Federal Agencies.

Lol it cost me $1.80 to mail that thing, certificate of mailing included. The postal worker was putting the envelope through her thickness tester. She wanted more of my ever dwindling $50 after tax weekly allowance. I told her if it goes over just give it back I'll find someone heavier to sit on it. :P