gettin' fired

RIP

forks email me if you need to talk

heaven knows he's miserable now

the day after mothers day too

sending good thoughts to all, let's get thru this together

Forks , tell this to your boss,"my boss has a habit of sending me emails on friday or so once every three months that basically read "you me and the co-owner need to meet at noon on monday" and then offer no additional info when I ask; so every three months I walk around going "am i fired?" then add you're ruining my weekends and i'm messin people about on the net making them feel sorry for me.

you really freaked me out with that "day after mother's day" comment; i was afraid I'd missed it.

jeez me too

I always get caught by this, when US ILXors start saying "hey I got my mom blabh lbah blah blah for Mother's Day" and I'm all WTF!?!? no I've forgotten!

Shall we just come back to this in 3 months?

Sorry, that was mean :(

But appropos!

ax just fell.

seeya later.

Yikes! Sorry about the job.

MORBS. I think this calls for a drink. At least now you have a home computer for us to email you on.

I think i will grab a few gross of toilet paper of the way out like the Office Kathys from TKITH.

youre kidding doc--that really sucks man

You should. There's probably extra dish soap in the kitchen, too.

Yeesh, terrible news.

hey, at least Obama made COBRA cost 35% of standard (temporarily).

sorry to hear that morbs, that stinks

that sucks morbs, sorry to hear it.

still, free time in the springtime!

:(

sorry dude

Sorry to hear it, Morbs -- good luck.

Yipes, sorry Doc. Shout at me.

Are you a cloud?

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?