You need to get something in writing. If they extend the position again, say you need it for a short-term lease extension or anything. At worst, that means you have written evidence of the next end date you can use in a court to prove that you were laid off from that date, and have the right to the severance benefits and unemployment. And if they extend it and only tell you that they do, that's not something they lay place in front of a judge, is it, if you just walk out on the written end date?
Can you call in sick without a doctor's notice? Just one day of you not being there just might show them how important you are and how much you do...
I don't have any evidence of the company negotiating new terms with the union. So I need the union to provide me with something in writing, that they supposedly had before. No one has ever produced anything in writing
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I was thinking 'skills in other fields'... I'm a computer and network support/admin guy, but I can drive a tractor, even with trailer, or with 'ensilation grass cutters' together with the trailer. I know how to muck out a cow shed, and milk a cow. (Not too good at it, but I can get by) I learned to row a boat before I learned to ride a bicycle.
Odds are that if I decided to quit my job I could 'homestead' without too much difficulty.
In the USA there are people making a living digging for 'bloodworms' for sale as fishing bait. Others are collecting wild mushrooms. There's one cooky type catching and smoking eels for sale, too. (I watch way too much TV sometimes)
If you can think of just one thing you could do, no matter how weird, you would have a mental 'out'.
I did get things in writing, with severance. It wasn't spelled out clearly, so I was confused when it ended before I expected it to. I guess they technically paid what they said they would, but how it was done was strange, especially how it was stated in the severance agreement. Not that I had much choice. It wasn't something I could negotiate. It was more, "Here you go. Sign this
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I think it was important for you to get this down. For posterity if nothing else.
This isn't even all that you're dealing with in life either, so it's just pile on top of a pile on top of another pile. Their expectations of you as you attempt to mop all of this up are absolutely nuts. You've done this before by yourself, not for this long of course, but once it's all over, you'll finally have some time to reset and refocus to try to find something that you want to do from here. Get the heck out of the desolate wastelands. And I know the prospect of not having a job at the end of this isn't any less anxiety-inducing, but my goodness that place you work now seems like one of the most toxic that I can imagine. In one aspect, at least you'll be breaking out of that dungeon. Who knows what the future holds, but you're resilient and you are strong. You may deny that, but you have to be to get as far as you have. That's it.
So just keep at it kitty. And you know where to turn to when things get tough.
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At worst, that means you have written evidence of the next end date you can use in a court to prove that you were laid off from that date, and have the right to the severance benefits and unemployment. And if they extend it and only tell you that they do, that's not something they lay place in front of a judge, is it, if you just walk out on the written end date?
Can you call in sick without a doctor's notice?
Just one day of you not being there just might show them how important you are and how much you do...
Now, what else than your current job can you do?
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I'm a computer and network support/admin guy, but I can drive a tractor, even with trailer, or with 'ensilation grass cutters' together with the trailer. I know how to muck out a cow shed, and milk a cow. (Not too good at it, but I can get by)
I learned to row a boat before I learned to ride a bicycle.
Odds are that if I decided to quit my job I could 'homestead' without too much difficulty.
In the USA there are people making a living digging for 'bloodworms' for sale as fishing bait. Others are collecting wild mushrooms. There's one cooky type catching and smoking eels for sale, too.
(I watch way too much TV sometimes)
If you can think of just one thing you could do, no matter how weird, you would have a mental 'out'.
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This isn't even all that you're dealing with in life either, so it's just pile on top of a pile on top of another pile. Their expectations of you as you attempt to mop all of this up are absolutely nuts. You've done this before by yourself, not for this long of course, but once it's all over, you'll finally have some time to reset and refocus to try to find something that you want to do from here. Get the heck out of the desolate wastelands. And I know the prospect of not having a job at the end of this isn't any less anxiety-inducing, but my goodness that place you work now seems like one of the most toxic that I can imagine. In one aspect, at least you'll be breaking out of that dungeon. Who knows what the future holds, but you're resilient and you are strong. You may deny that, but you have to be to get as far as you have. That's it.
So just keep at it kitty. And you know where to turn to when things get tough.
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