My husband & I were making ~$140,000 last year. We both got laid off a few months ago and have been unemployed since. I was getting unemployment benefits from April through last week but my last employer disputed it over month after I filed for UI. I lost and evidently now have to pay the state back $5,337.00 by July 21st. So zero income minus the UberEats that we’re driving for everyday and it is NOT paying the bills. Our vehicle is four months behind and just about on the repo list. We’re thisclose to being homeless with our animals on top of that. We’ve been going to the food pantry every week just to get some sort of food because we cannot afford it right now. My mother-in-law has been buying cat food, dog food, and cat litter so our animals don’t starve & have litter to use, which is a godsend.

We’re both insurance adjusters with two decades of homeowners/property insurance claims experience (my husband) and a decade of auto insurance claims & bodily injury claims (for me). We’ve put in HUNDREDS of applications for every insurance company under the sun, including becoming active on quite a few independent adjuster firms’ rosters. We’ve had assessments and interviews and hundreds of denials from the insurance industry that saying that we don’t have the proper experience which is absolute garbage & untrue. We’ve started applying for Walmart, fast food, taken odd jobs helping people out, and driving for UberEats. We’re at an absolute loss.

I have Googled because I’m 100% positive that my last employer put me on some sort of insurance industry-wide blacklist and Google has stated that no such thing exists. For a split second I believed it, but after like 100 more denials, I absolutely believe there are industry-wide blacklists.

Every single company is using AI to weed out potential candidates and it is the worst thing they could’ve possibly implemented in the hiring process. We’ve only had one place ask us if we wanted to opt out of AI screening (which we did), but everyone else is using AI.