The Reagon Administration mandated loophole closings for disability benefits to the mentally and physically ill citizens. The project exceeded the dollar-wise savings projected by the government figures by two-hundred percent. Many mentally and physically ill people were told to go to work, and that they wouldn't receive any more financial assistance. Thanks to some of the review personnel, ninety and eight-tenth percent of the mentally disabled have been reinstated. Now the disability budget has been cut again, and some of those same reinstated mentally ill and disabled people may be cut from the financial assistance rolls again.
My tenant, Tracy, says that the store that employs her has a policy not to hire any full-time female employees, only full-time men. She says that the only women who even get hired part-time are women who are willing to sleep with her married boss.
She says she is fortunate that she was hired before he was the boss.
Cecil moved in. He got to meet Tracy while I was here, which I was glad of. I think that all three of us will get along fine. Cecil seems interested in helping me with a garden this spring, but he can't swim, so I don't imagine he will be interested in the pool.
My first day of training went okay. I was glad that I had taken a keypunching cource, and working in a temporary job for a very short time at a nearby bank keypunching, because this job entails computer data entry. The training will last until Saturday when I start the actual job. I won't have a day off 'til Monday. My days will probably be similar to today, getting up late, reading the paper and drinking coffee, fixing my brown-bag-it lunch, getting dressed and ready to go, driving the twenty-two miles to work, working, driving home, watching TV, bathing and going to bed. I won't have to wear make-up. I won't be seen by the general public, only the women I work with. Pretty dull, huh! Oh well, it's a job, part-time, but a job. I don't know if I'll like it yet or not. I have to look at it this way, it may help me get other jobs later on. Since it's interviewing on the phone, while data is punched into a computer, it will give me experience. Maybe I'll get to work for them again.
