Kicked out of store for being Unemployed

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i haven't read any other comments yet, so i am replying just to the OP without seeing the subsequent conversation. i apologise if it's all been said before. i am from edmonton, so i speak from personal experience.

you're living in the city with extremely low unemployment rates (like around 4%). if you want a job, they are there for the having. which brings me to the next point... the job board the guy was talking about is http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/intro-eng.aspx , which is available through the unemployment office or from the comfort of your computer. it doesn't just have government jobs (in fact, those are hard to get) - it has thousands of private sector jobs.

another point: the oil patch pays MORE than other regular jobs, not "less than you're worth". you can make a massive amount of money if you're willing to work in a remote area. the key there is "willing". you don't sound willing.

i can't imagine a stranger in edmonton asking you what job you do, because in my several decades there i didn't have any store clerks asking me about my work situation. i wonder about what your previous conversations were, because you said people are verbally abusing you every single day! this is edmonton, where people won't even say hello unless you stand in front of them for 5 minutes staring first.

I wont work for jobs beneath me. Because they're beneath me. McDonalds isn't beneath me, or at least it wasn't
until they screened me out at least five times after going in a number of times to talk to the manager.

I don't think that I should be condemned for choosing government money
over an oil patch job.

Maybe the policy makers in political positions should study
physics or economics so that they understand incentive a little better.

See - when you decrease the supply of private positions, you increase the incentive to live
on gov't money, especially when managers and other store clerks don't
like your resume. And when they see that yes, you're a derivatives engineer
or a statistician, they could care less. They're looking for real students, with real degrees.f

And when you hedge product inflation to taxes, you're forcing tax-payers to foot the bill for your
food or candy etc. And those with disabilities, are singled out of the job market
because of a lack of credentials, little opportunity or interest in the skills or abilities
that someone with Aspergers can contribute.

I don't want to segregate myself, and I wouldn't mind building 100 engines in a day,
but let me build them a little closer to my house, a little less longer, for a little more pay,
and stop taxing the consumer for your gov't gravy train. Maybe I'm just a person
who notices problems, aims to fix it. Yes I do want to go into framing, no I don't have any
training, so sorry we don't need you.

That, or it's off to the patches

Apparently it's taboo nowadays to rebel against something you find uncomfortable. Jeez, I wonder how
women or unions acquired any of their rights.

I do believe I have studied more than politicians. Not every politician is an engineer or is in Mathematics. Infact, your president
Obama admittedly stated he doesn't "do math" very well.

But he regulates Wall Street...?

I have been living primarily off SSDI over the last 9 years, and I am not particularly proud of that. I am filling up my time by helping out the community around me. I am also putting a lot of work into my recovery from mental health and addiction issues. I would love to work full-time again, but I would lose my medical coverage if I did that.

From what I can tell, you are able to work, but you prefer to waste your life by not contributing to society. People like you have a stigma that other people like using against all people on government assistance. I find it difficult to send any pity in your direction.

What special training do you have that MAKES you worth so much more than a menial job? What special experience? Education?

"I'm smarter than most" is not reason enough...

I asked WhiteWidow about "losing my government money in the stock market". This was not meant as a put down or an insult. It was the only productive thing he mentioned and I made an attempt to go with it.

Thinking that you're above doing work that you just don't feel like doing is not a disability, just so you know.
If you really could work certain jobs but are collecting disability because you think you're too good for said jobs

A. You're defrauding the welfare system.
B. You're taking money unneccessarily from people who've earned it.
C. You're taking money that could be used to help those in need.
D. You're feeding the stereotype that people on disability could get a job but just don't want to, thus making it even more difficult for those who actually do need help.

Well done.

I am so glad some people here are being honest. I wanted to tell the OP he was abusing the system and feeding into the stigma about being on welfare and feeding into peoples minds that lot of them are leeches. But I was afraid if being judgmental because this is a disability forum.

I'm abusing the system? I have aspergers. I've lost 29 jobs. I have no experience other than
being a Mascot in the last two years.

Other than that, I study Physics and Economics.
But I know a lot more than bachelor's
and even some students in business. I also talk
frequently with a University Economist. And he's interested
in what I have to say.

The whole reason I'm on disability, is because I was on income support, and the
whole reason I was on income support was because
I had to drop out of college, and the whole reason I had to drop out,
was because I was living on someone's floor and I lost my job
because I was being ripped off on my pay checks and I got really angry about it so they fired me.

Like I said before. I don't have any duty to look for work. We're not at war with the unemployment rate. The policy
makers are. We are not the policy makers. We are the policy demanders. Why can we not demand
higher gas prices? And more Wall Street futures now and not in 2017? Why can we not demand these things?
Why can we not demand a spike in all securities related to currency hedgers? Are we that apathetic? That we
can see the problem, but we don't care about rallying our politicians or other people about it? After 1929
our entire industrial culture was so shocked, it only knows how to mould itself now to the shocker.

And I'm not in an emergency situation, and the emergency situation is the disability, and the lost credentials and
lack thereof.