Yeah man, sure have. But the Danish one. That's one of its kind. Would probably be equivalent to like $2,300-$2,500 a month in todays money.
I was 16-17 or so, had been working as a game developer at a small software company that went broke. I'd quit highschool to take the job and it was awesome. I had my own huge office and 2-3 computers available to work on. We're talking the c-64/c-128 days here.
Anyway, I got laid off, sued them for 3 months pay which I got, and on top I discovered I could get unemployment welfare like an adult since I had been employed.
It was so cool, I mean, I was getting paid almost normal wages while I'd have had to work for like a quarter of that had I gotten a real job instead since I was younger than 18. I was loaded.
Didn't last though, I took an education instead ;)
It's a fucked up system here, fortunately they've finally started to have another look at it and are trying to make it a bit more restrictive. For some it's turned into a "pillow" of sorts since for the most part it doesn't pay off to actually go to work once you're in the system.
Man, those were the days....
