Tale as old as time…. Got a random meeting with my boss and HR, and within the hour was locked out of my laptop and all accounts. Completely shocked, didn’t see it coming at all. I worked in corporate sales, made $81k a year completely remote as a 25f. I got a whopping 2 weeks of severance from my company, all 200 hours of my PTO I had saved for the holidays is not being paid out. Was also 3 weeks out from my 20% bonus pay out…ugh.
I guess I’m looking for general advice, but some specific advice as well.
How do I handle my next steps, job wise? Do I go get a retail job in the mean time, or is being on unemployment a better use of my time so I can continue to have my schedule open for interviews/job searching in my field (if I can get any)? the job market is so awful right now, and i cant relocate. I know this is antiwork, which is what im hoping is an audience that won’t just tell me the obvious “go get a job, loser” stuff unless it’s accurate.
Like I said—I was so surprised by this. I felt so confident in my job that I recently took a huge chunk of my savings and put it into a my Roth IRA so I can meet my goals for the year. Regretting that right now. Should I be living like i am in poverty? I had so much guilt spending $20 last night at dinner, where a week ago i was buying $200 perfume to treat myself. Do i let the guilt continue, or should I relax a little?
Do I go ahead and buy my family Christmas presents on credit, or tell them Christmas isn’t happening this year? i don’t have kids, but live with my boyfriend and have plans with his family this year.
This is partially rant, but I genuinely would love advice about lay offs.