Do the numbers...

So, being without a job, I am getting unemployment. I get $370 per week, which really doesn't cut it, but is better than nothing. I started taking some contract work, which grosses me $270 in one week (I worked less than two days), and so the unemployment folks decide in their infinite wisdom that I don't get anything for that week.

If I had not taken the contract job, I would have gotten more money, but I mistakenly though that the EDD would just give me the difference. But no. Next week though, there will be a phone interview, and I will point out the quandary they have placed me in. And hopefully a job will come along soon.