And the Beat(ing) keeps going on

It's something about beating a dead horse, or dog.. or something...

These days it could be about my situation.  As you may, or may not, know, DH was fired from his job two weeks before Christmas.  Just two weeks before he was going to be on leave for the season and receiving unemployment.

We were still hopeful that we were going to fall under the category of being able to get unemployment, then I finally talked to a live person.

The way it stands, the former employer sent in 13 PAGES of documentation on why they said DH deserved to be fired.  The way they paint the information is very damaging and I would totally have fired him myself, but of course everything can be explained much nicer than they put it.

The roll over accident that he was in was listed as being the fault of his speeding and said that he damaged two major company vehicle pieces beyond repair.  ~ read this as he was doing 20 miles per hour getting on an expressway and the sludge in the vehicle surged and caused the back end of the truck to start to roll to the side, which in turn, caused the main cab to roll.  It was a controlled fall, no leakage of the biosolids from the tanker, and it is still intact.  The tanker does have a "flat spot" on the side though.

Speeding ticket.  ~ Read this as they put him in vehicle that does not have a working speedometer and he often used his iphone App to gauge his speed.

Speeding ticket.  ~ He was passing a vehicle and an officer was coming over the hill and saw him, in the passing zone, passing.  Ticket was for 4 miles an hour over.  :/

Damage to vehicle.  ~ He was in the field, middle of winter, and was driving at an idle towards where he had to park.  He was nearing the pole to park and realized that, even at an idle, he was going to bump, he turned last second and barely clipped the pole right where the driver side light was.

Each time they are saying that he was "speeding" and because its his word against the company (that is using the police tickets to back up their theory) there is no way we will win.

Our plan was to look for a decent job while he was, hopefully, going to be getting unemployment, until we found out this information.  Information that we would not have gotten until the middle of February had I not called in.

BUT... Being that I don't like sitting around waiting, and am a momma of action, I enrolled BOTH of us back into college.  We have applied for every job that was 7.45$ or more that were within our skill set, and there were not many options.  While we wait and see what can come up for us, we might as well increase our skill set right?

I know that taking out college loans is not the best of ideas to keep us afloat, but it is much better than asking for cash assistance from the state and doing the work first program.  We can work around each others schedules this way, and eventually, it will all get paid back in the end.  :)