8/19/20 Wife Put Boy To Work?

     Boy had been doing awesome all the way to December of last year.  He had a job offer where he was going to be making over 70 grand a year and although he was still taking classes, the company was fine with it, so there was no need to rush.  Then the new year started and everything just imploded, first with his company going under, then Covid-19 to slow the economy and the world down.  It would seem that he is having a hard time, but it isn't just him, a large percentage of the population is having a hard time getting hired and staying employed.

    He mentions to me all the time that he is applying for any and everything he thinks he can qualify for.  It is a little hard, in my opinion, because he is still a handful of classes short for his degree.  He almost got hired by a Toshiba subsidiary which does failure analysis but after the engineers that interviewed him liked him and brought up salary, HR came around and brought up the fact that he did not have a degree and also questioned his dyslexia, which seemed highly inappropriate, but whatever.

    Wife's boss asked her if Boy was doing anything and after finding out he was just home, he asked her if he wanted to work for a week or two, maybe three or even more if things work out.  Wife mentioned it to him and a salary was discussed, but since it is only for two weeks, he has chosen to work them as a volunteer.  The way unemployment works is kind of shitty.  If he works, his benefits stop, which he is currently covered until October.  When he stops working, he then has to re-apply and he has a friend who has been waiting over a month to get back on the benefits after working for a couple weeks.  It just doesn't seem set up to allow for short work periods like this.  

    Like Wife, I would rather he work here, but I guess right now, work where the opportunity presents itself.  I am not sure what he can get out of this, but it has to be better than sitting around the house everyday making runs to Goodwill to kill time.  I do like that at least he can go with Wife and help her get the stuff she bought off the car and into the new apartment where she is at.  It is also good that she took her bed and one of the twin sized futons (chair that folds out into a bed) so he can sleep in the living room.  Having him there will also help so he can get the TV set up and connected to the wi-fi connection from her cousins main house.  They are taking a signal enhancer and it is better he goes to set that stuff up.