I hear what you're saying, but BP has slashed US sales forces quite a bit over the last few years, so only the cream of the crop retained their jobs amidst the layoffs - surely there are good middle ground reps that couldn't find jobs because nobody was hiring? Which brings up another point - it's way easier to get hired for any job if you're already working and just want to switch employers for some reason, like better benefits - the longer you've been out of work the harder it is to get hired. I recall that when I finally got SSDI benefits approved 4 yrs after my LTD provider applied for them (you get auto-rejected on first try, always have to end up in front of an appeals judge), the judge wrote in the decision something like "he's been unemployed for so long it's highly unlikely he could get hired in a job similar to the one he used to have". That wasn't how or why I got approved for SSDI of course (CFS/Lyme was), but it was apparently on the judge's mind. Trump thinks it's too easy to get SSDI, wants to push disabled people off it, make it harder to stay on it so he can help pay for his $&$^ corporate tax giveaway, but he has no frigging clue how difficult it actually is to qualify and get approved - thank god my LTD provider hired lawyers to do all the work for me (they saved money because my LTD benefits were cut dollar for dollar by what SSDI provided), because there's no way I could have made it through the maze w/o them, health problems would have prevented me from doing that kind of (and that much) work. I'm pretty sure you have to hire a lawyer for the appeals court process, it's not the sort of thing you can do on your own like small claims court - that makes it expensive on top of being difficult.
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