ok. so it doesn't matter if i was aware the job would end and haven't found anything else yet?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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 : (
― velko, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
ask forks for advice. hope you're doing ok, forks
― prostitutes all over the place (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, I thought forks didn't get fired.
― hormone mice in bikini paradise (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
hey morbs if u get bored of unemployed NY, come see me and anni3 and we'll hit a giants game.
― 69, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't but i'm told it's lolzy to pretend i did
― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw Morbs, that sucks, I'm wishing you the best.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha for a moment I'm like 'Andy and Abe? What the hell designer brews are those?'
― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i posted my woes here even tho i didn't get "fired." I was laid off.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
My sympathies, Morbs. It sounds like your employers were chuckleheads.
― Event Horizon (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry to hear about that, forks
hang in there bud
― brocktune (jeff), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
well, that's slightly better then.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Fog Fucking Hat (u s steel), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
btw, i did get fired from that job but it ended up being a good thing.
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Warner Bothers (u s steel), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
either going to get fired or resign, when shitty nazi boss rejoins our team next week. we'll see how we go.
― Ste, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
^ 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.
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know if I was on the verge of getting fired today, but I seem to have worked my boss's last nerve. :\
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Friday, 29 March 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Friday, 29 March 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
Seeing, duh.
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Friday, 29 March 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
Hello dere!
8 years, longest I've been anywhere.
My profession is extinct.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
Ugh sorry Morbs, best of luck.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
fucking hell, sorry Morbs
― Simon H., Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
that sucks....good luck pal
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
so much for my "the cancer guy has security" theory
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
Sorry to hear that meeting turned out to confirm what you suspected...
Was it you and an entire department? Reorg?
― Evan, Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
That sucks man, sorry to hear this.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Ugh, sorry.
― Yerac, Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
sorry to hear that morbs - best of luck for quickly finding better work
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
Sorry Morbs, good luck.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
Yes, "greater efficiency" is what the German guy said, Evan. After training us on the new software for six months or so. Several departments! Fewer humans needed.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Reorgs are nightmares! My clients go through these way too often and it's such a stressful environment.
― Evan, Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
ugh that sucks morbs, all my best
― mark s, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
morbs, goddammit. i'm sorry.
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
really sorry to hear this, morbius! is there any severance at least??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
5.5 months, and 8 months of health coverage
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
fuck yes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
that's awesome :)
good luck dr morbius
― marcos, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
yeahhhh, except no one will hire me
xp
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
what do you do? Could always keep an eye out
― Evan, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
proofreading! close to completely dead.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
I work for a company that needs proofreaders and copy editors. It's freelance work, but it's something.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
Commiserations and g'luck morbs
If I hear of a requirement for a rabblerousing proofreader movie buff over here you'll be my no 1 rec
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
these ppl have been very good to me over the years:https://aquent.co.uk/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
whoops i guess you don't want the .co.uk link - they have a nyc office and have had one for years - https://aquent.com/contact-us/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
oh god I’m sorry morbsyou are welcome join my pity party, i just restocked the booze & the chips
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
That's terrible. Sorry to hear of it, old chum.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link