The whole culture of entitled public employment has to be changed. All you hear from them is "we have not had a raise in 3 years!", blah, blah.... aetius476 THAT WOULD BE 8 YEARS BLAH BLAH BLAH. SO BEFORE YOU WHINE GET YOUR FACTS. The small person who gets no money is not the one not doing their job BLAH BLAH. It is the upper so called people who have no clue as to what they are even suppose to do. I worked for DMV and I can assure you the lowest paid people knew three times as much as their bosses. All of State departments are in a mess. Husband works for state and he does more work by noon then his boss does all week and when ever there is a problem they all go to my husband for a answer including his boss who makes four times what he makes so BLAH BLAH BLAH THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really some one is finally speaking about something that is old old old news. Our unemployment office is run by people who only care about how many of each race is working there. I am so tired of these government offices more concerned about how many whites and blacks they have employed and not look at the real picture. How many employees know what they are doing. I could not believe when I heard prisoners were still collecting unemployment. I guess I am use to the north who only hires people who are experienced not what race they are.

Don't blame the worker bees. That's like blaming a snake for being a snake. They didn't hire themselves. DES' problems start at the top. The heads of divisions and departments have for many years now have discouraged employee accountability, buried their heads in the sand when it comes to dealing with problems, and generally not been competent or decisive enough to make the decisions that need to be made. Here are some quotes from various DES managers I've heard about: "We are the EMPLOYMENT Security Commission. We are supposed to hire people, not fire them" - this was regarding disciplining an employee that would've been fired 10 times over in the private sector for what they were getting away with at DES. "I've learned that if you leave a problem alone, it usually solves itself" - this was regarding an issue that needed attention, but the manager was too lazy to deal with it. With comments like these from the people in charge, none of these reports should be suprising.

After reading many of these comments, I think I'm in "whine" country now.

No surprise to me... My husband was unemployed for six months in 2011. He had been laid off from his job. After being told he was eligible for benefits not once did he ever receive them. It made it very difficult on us because I was on disability and had to pay $1000/month for medical insurance but only receieve $1300/month in disability benefits. Those that need it can't get it and those that aren't eligible continue to receive benefits... More of who you know politics/benefits...

ncpilot2, I'm not sure the Department of Revenue operates all that well. I reported a medicaid provider agency that works all over the state for improperly not withholding taxes. They didn't really seem concerned.

I have a degree and 15+ years business experience...I've applied for 18...yes 18 jobs at ES and can not even get an interview.....So you tell me what the problem is!

typical State, County, City, Federal incompentence.

What party has been in control for all these years and had a chance to change it? Why didn't they change it? They let it go on and on.

Where shady money is involved, it seems like the dems are up to it to their elbows.

gordonwjackson, I agree with you! I have owned a small business for almost 25 years, paying into the unemployment system, which I had no problem with. Only two claims over twenty five years! Last month, I received my new premium...it went from $500 per quarter to almost $3000. I was planning to hire another employee but now I really can't afford to. Something is not right with this program.

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