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I got laid off yesterday.
I'm still not really 'upset' about it, although that might change when I'm all alone on Monday morning and Nathan's gone off to work.
Basically yesterday at 4:35, after I 'd stayed a few minutes late to finish up something and after I'd spent the whole past two days helping clean and paint* the office, my supervisor asked me to meet her in one of the owner's offices. Well, you don't get terminated several times in the past as I have and not know what that means (it's at least bred a healthy paranoia). They thanked me COPIOUSLY for my efforts, told me I was an extremely smart young woman and would do okay, gave me a letter I can show to the unemployment office so I can get some kind of benefit, and both got a bit misty. The company as a whole would be experiencing a severe dry spell in the next two-three months, and they just couldn't afford to keep me on. If it was only going to be a month, they said 'We wouldn't even be having this conversation, we'd keep you on!' They'd put me in project management in order to train me but there was literally nothing for me to do sometimes, they just couldn't keep me on.
Happily, since it's not a performance issue I can get some unemployment, and if that doesn't feel like a strange thing to hear coming out of my mouth I don't know what does. I've never even considered it in the past. And I have almost a month's wages coming to me, between my last paycheck, vacation pay, a small severance package (about a week's worth) and that government tax check.
I have a few things I can look into doing, off the top of my head. And it sounds stupidly optimistic, but maybe this will be a great opportunity, the way onceupon's layoff worked out. Obviously I'm not so optimistic that I'm ignoring the crummy economy, but it's early yet. Give me a few days and I'm sure I'll be hysterical!
I'm still not really 'upset' about it, although that might change when I'm all alone on Monday morning and Nathan's gone off to work.
Basically yesterday at 4:35, after I 'd stayed a few minutes late to finish up something and after I'd spent the whole past two days helping clean and paint* the office, my supervisor asked me to meet her in one of the owner's offices. Well, you don't get terminated several times in the past as I have and not know what that means (it's at least bred a healthy paranoia). They thanked me COPIOUSLY for my efforts, told me I was an extremely smart young woman and would do okay, gave me a letter I can show to the unemployment office so I can get some kind of benefit, and both got a bit misty. The company as a whole would be experiencing a severe dry spell in the next two-three months, and they just couldn't afford to keep me on. If it was only going to be a month, they said 'We wouldn't even be having this conversation, we'd keep you on!' They'd put me in project management in order to train me but there was literally nothing for me to do sometimes, they just couldn't keep me on.
Happily, since it's not a performance issue I can get some unemployment, and if that doesn't feel like a strange thing to hear coming out of my mouth I don't know what does. I've never even considered it in the past. And I have almost a month's wages coming to me, between my last paycheck, vacation pay, a small severance package (about a week's worth) and that government tax check.
I have a few things I can look into doing, off the top of my head. And it sounds stupidly optimistic, but maybe this will be a great opportunity, the way onceupon's layoff worked out. Obviously I'm not so optimistic that I'm ignoring the crummy economy, but it's early yet. Give me a few days and I'm sure I'll be hysterical!