Sad to say that I'm still unemployed. I've been out of work for 6 months now (longer than any other period of time for me). Elwood Staffing has had any work that qualify for. One job that they would send me to is one I was on previously, and that job didn't work out with another agency (it resulted in me being wrongfully fired) that I can't be sent to a place called Roll & Hold. It's a place that handles wrapping up steel coils (from the steel mils) in either cardboard or plastic. I just don't like handling those heavy oily coils. Not only that, you work in the elements. This place has no heat or air conditioning, nor any fans. With all that is why it didn't work out for me. Davis Staffing had me fired over the place releasing me from the assignment, but it worked against them when they eventually lost the contract to the place. Elwood now has it and sounds more like they're being upfront what the job is about. But I had to tell them even if I wanted to work there again, I couldn't because of how Cyndi Sanchez who used to work at Davis lied to get me to take the job and caused Davis to lose Roll & Hold's business. I also am going thru Spartan Staffing (in Indiana, they used to be PMI Staffing & before that, Star Staffing Services) hoping that I'll get some work with them. Spartan Staffing primarily deals with Ashland Hardware at the moment (my former employer) and won't be working there again. I even talked with Kelly Services in Merrillville Indiana. I asked them about how the Frankfort Illinois office denied me employment, claiming my attendance at Ashland was why they wouldn't help me out. It had nothing to do with Ashland. It had to do with an asshole named Russ Conte remembering me from Hidden Valley and had not liked me being on assignment at Hidden Valley, and didn't want me working on any assignments he had this time around. Anyway, one of the ladies at the Merrillville Kelly office looked in the computer, she noticed my application was incomplete. So basically, Russ thought he was smart by making my info incomplete to keep me from working for Kelly Services, but another office (the Merrillville office) asked for me to finish it up online. They're gonna see if they can find me work. They however will have a difficult time due to my ineligibility to be sent to Ashland Hardware (worked there previously under Star/PMI Staffing & eventually being employed with Ashland, but employment ended on bad terms) & Dawn Foods (supposedly Dawn Foods has a no rehire policy) because I worked there briefly. So they'll have a challenge. Had I been able to get work at the Frankfort Illinois Kelly Services office, I would have been back to work in October. Since I live in Indiana, my residency has made it nearly impossible to get work on the Illinois side. I blame Indiana for not willing to work with Illinois to work out the reciprocal income tax agreement. I also blame most of Chicagoland for refusing to make their own taxes affordable that some people either move to Wisconsin or Indiana (wherever people live closest to their jobs) to live somewhere more affordable. Nothing against those who live in Chicagoland, but I can barely afford to live where I do now due to the jobs I get. I also haven't been able to get help with any temporary residency that I'm stuck living with my mother who refuses to move out of Gary Indiana. So I'm stuck.
While I'm on the subject of TV, I just looked at my outdoor antenna and I may have to replace it soon. I noticed that the UHF portion of the antenna is slowly bending downward. I have a suburban/rural VHF/UHF antenna that I bought in 2002, and the UHF portion has no support to hold up the weight of the back of the antenna. The VHF portion is in 2 pieces in a V shape. The top portion has one set of VHF elements & the bottom portion has another set of VHF elements. That portion isn't affected, but the UHF portion eventually breaking off will make the antenna useless. So once I'm back to work, I'll be in the market to buy a new antenna or 2, maybe 3. I haven't decided whether I'll get another VHF/UHF combination for Chicago & a separate UHF for WYIN, which transmits out of Cedar Lake Indiana (where their transmitter is located at). The other combination would be separate VHF & UHF antennas. If I go that route, I would need 2 UHF antennas & 1 VHF antenna. Chicago has 2 VHF stations (WLS-TV on channel 7, but rumor has it that they're vacating the channel in June and staying on channel 44 fulltime, which they're also broadcasting on; & WBBM-TV on channel 12). All other Chicago stations are on the UHF. So if I go this route, I'll have 1 VHF antenna & 2 UHF antennas since WYIN transmits southwest of me while Chicago stations are to the northwest. This a VHF/UHF antenna I'm considering from Winegard. Here's another VHF/UHF antenna I'm considering from Antennacraft. Here's a UHF antenna from Eagle Aspen I'm planning to get to use for WYIN TV, since I don't need a big UHF antenna to get their station. For a VHF only antenna, I'm either an antenna from Antennacraft. For a UHF only antenna, I'm debating on this Channelmaster antenna or this Antennacraft antenna. I'm even thinking about this Winegard UHF antenna. Whichever antenna combination I go with, I will need a signal combiner. I already have this signal combiner if I go with separate VHF/UHF antennas from Antennas Direct. If I go with the separate VHF/UHF antennas, I still need this signal combiner regardless from Wingard. If I go with the VHF/UHF combo antenna for Chicago & UHF only antenna for WYIN, then the Winegard signal combiner will be the only combiner I'll need. If I go with a separate VHF & separate UHF antenna for Chicago & a UHF only antenna for WYIN, then the Winegard combiner will be for the UHF antennas while the sole VHF antenna would hook directly into the VHF/UHF signal combiner.
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