NOVA GREEN has a couple songs on the queue, keeping it real for Mi Gentes...
Arguably one the first pioneers in Tejano (Mexican-American) Country artists from way back in the 1970s....
Our next door neighbors in the Apartment Blocks are Mexican-American (He went to HS in "The Sac", and she graduated from a HS in Albany, Oregon.
They got two small kids together and are currently separated.
Ran into her at a nearby convenience store an hour or so back, and she's got a work "tag" on her neck, and asking how things are going.
She's got a good job now with the state and she told me it was a "Union Job"...
As the lines thin out and we're buying our stuff, one of my reg clerks chimes in: "wow--- Union Jobs are the best"...
Anyways... fast forward to
Johnny Rodriguez: "
Corpus Christy Bay"
Many fond memories of Corpus, but before we ever went there on vacation from Houston naturally had a certain country song in mind...
Damn can't remember how many times I listened to this album driving back and forth from Tejas to Oregon, when me and my wife were separated for awhile and trying to reconcile...
So my wife got sacked from her Caregiving Job about a month or so back and the employer apparently denied her UI claim on the grounds of "misconduct".
Needless to say that was bunk and she finally got her ruling from the Oregon "Adjudicator" that she was not guilty of misconduct, but we still haven't seen the checks yet from the "Great State of Oregon", which would we roughly half a months rent for us working-class folks.
Naturally she needs to to a personal appearance at the "Unemployment Office" for job retraining and job matching skills and all that crap...
She gets offered minimum wage jobs, well below her experience level, where the nice lady is simply trying to help match people up by the playbook.
Naturally a song jumps to my head when it comes to matching up unemployed people with job opportunities through government agencies:
The Clash: Career Opportunities Meanwhile... I've been on another two week factory furlough scene, after the last one, plus got another two week coming up in December.
Still haven't gotten my unemployment check for my 2nd furlough week, and just got a letter in the mail from the "Great State of Oregon", courtesy of the "Office of Administrative Hearings" that it will likely take 1-2 months before they review my claim from a temp factory layoff?
Screw that S**t
Johnny Paycheck in the house...
"Take This Job and Shove It"
