I live in Oregon, filing for unemployment online when you select the drop down for how you applied thru don't even have the option for "online". Phone, in-person, verbal...so every week people have to select "other". 2026 and their online service doesn't acknowledge employment may have applied to acquired online. What's worse, it's supposed to be the entire bureaus area of expertise. So fucking embarrassing as an entity.

It took 9 weeks to get my check the last time I was laid off in the last few years. Nothing interesting or special about my case. They just took 9 weeks to review and approve it. They noted this was normal. Since most people can't wait 9 weeks without a check, they start working for lyft and shit.

Oregon employment department got trashed, rightfully so, during the pandemic, they took 6 months or more to pay people. Their website is still poorly designed and barely functional for something you want to be intuitive to the entire adult workforce. They still can't pick up their phone in less than 8 hours. I wrote my state reps emails, none of them even responded. Funny how the tables would turn if their paycheck stopped for 9 weeks.

Motherfuckers.