gettin' fired

Condolences Morbz - though as goole hinted it couldn't have come at a better time in the schedule

don't forget to photocopy your resume too, a la TKITH!

and be sure to turn in yr wig

o no morbs. that totally sucks. damn. if we weren't cutting things right and left at our shop i'd tell you to look in about some freelance work, but we just ditched all our freelancers (some of whom had been working several days a week for years).

The Gray Lady has replaced em w/ robots?

Well, I made it home w/out having an Anna Karenina moment on the F train platform.

Of course, they disabled my office email before I'd gotten back to my desk. So cute.

Morbs, you thought of a place for drinking this evening yet? I'll bring the McDonalds salad.

who the fuck fires people on a monday?

aw morbs :( :( i buy u drink soon!

well, at least they didn't do it last Monday when I was on my "last vacation ever."

dunno yet ian, mayb the KY bar if I go out, i'll let you know.

I wonder if the freelancer who filled in for me for 3 days -- they had NEVER paid for that shit before -- convinced them I was dispensable?

The Gray Lady has replaced em w/ robots?

there's no "replace" at all -- just, you know, "doing more with less."

sadly too true

Of course, they disabled my office email before I'd gotten back to my desk. So cute.

Holy shit!

sorry Morbz

Sorry Morbs! Good wishes and hopes for a speedy turnaround. You are in my thoughts.

thanks, NPS.

well, it appears that because I got 3 weeks' severance -- excuse me, SEPARATION -- I can't file for unemployment till I get that check on the 15th. So I just wasted 45 minutes filling out the goddamn online application.

Time to go to the movies.

only 3 weeks?? haven't you worked there for a while?

4-1/2 years. That's pretty typical for US companies.

shitty

so if my job is temporary (not through an agency, just came on as a non-perm employee) and is wrapping up soon, can i get unemployment?

yeah, i got the 'oh we need to start talking about references, prospects, and wrapping up your work for us' bit yesterday and now it's really hit me that i'm going to be unemployed soon :(

don't know how it works outside of Ontario but here you have to have worked a minimum number of hours to qualify, I don't *think* it matters if your job was classified as permanent or not..?? G'luck!! :(

You just have to have had wages in the "look back period" - even if you worked through a temp agency. They generally base your benefits on how much you made in that period.

Aw, tza. hit that linked in action!

ok. so it doesn't matter if i was aware the job would end and haven't found anything else yet?

i think you're ok tza re: unemployment eligibility

also, companies aren't really obligated to give severance but 3 weeks for 4.5 years is super crappy, esp. in this job market. sorry, morbs : (

ask forks for advice. hope you're doing ok, forks

wait, I thought forks didn't get fired.

hey morbs if u get bored of unemployed NY, come see me and anni3 and we'll hit a giants game.

i didn't but i'm told it's lolzy to pretend i did

Aw Morbs, that sucks, I'm wishing you the best.

I dunno about ny, but in texas if your 'fired' (terminated with cause) no unemployment benefits for you! I hope you were laid off instead.

Anyway, if you do get unemployment benefits, Obama is giving you an extra $25 a week. Won't go far in the city, but it's still an Andy and an Abe.

Haha for a moment I'm like 'Andy and Abe? What the hell designer brews are those?'

i posted my woes here even tho i didn't get "fired." I was laid off.

My sympathies, Morbs. It sounds like your employers were chuckleheads.

sorry to hear about that, forks

hang in there bud

well, that's slightly better then.

VERY slightly

God, no unemployment after being terminated at all: sends a message that the employer doing the firing is absolutely "right", even in the moral sense. You were "bad", be punished. It can be a death sentence these days, you lose your health care, lose your home!

btw, i did get fired from that job but it ended up being a good thing.

I got fired once but I never felt so relieved in all of my life. It was like "no disrespect, if you can stand this shithole you're welcome to it!" It didn't hurt that my mom won a settlement right after I left, so I had a year's salary or more to live off of.

either going to get fired or resign, when shitty nazi boss rejoins our team next week. we'll see how we go.

^ same

line manager is ex city worker, small man syndrome, writes extremely aggressive long winded "official" emails asking me to only listen to my headphones during lunch hours and stuff like that. everyone listens to their headphones here.

current concern is my time management, i've been late a couple of days a week for the last few weeks. gf is going thru a horrendous grief process, things are a bit fucked up, tempted to just get signed off work for a couple of weeks.

anyway the annoying thing about all of this, is that i consistantly do about 5 times more work than anyone else. some aspects of the job are fairly mundane and i can kind of switch off and blast through my work at a ridiculous rate. this has saved our team from everyone doing lots of overtime on a number of occasions.

gah, anyway, feeling like you're about to get fired sucks. i'm sure things will sort themselves out.

Don't know if I was on the verge of getting fired today, but I seem to have worked my boss's last nerve. :\

First, he got annoyed when he wanted me to crunch some numbers and compare it against another set he gave me and I returned the results to him in a different order, then he gave me another job where I had to dig through the email to figure out what was being asked for, and when I said that it was as difficult for me to find that info as it was for him to check the numbers, he went off on me. (All this happened over email, so I'm not looking forward to sing him today.)

Seeing, duh.

Hello dere!

8 years, longest I've been anywhere.

My profession is extinct.

Ugh sorry Morbs, best of luck.

fucking hell, sorry Morbs

that sucks....good luck pal

so much for my "the cancer guy has security" theory

Sorry to hear that meeting turned out to confirm what you suspected...

Was it you and an entire department? Reorg?