Author: Olivia

Inflation is 7% so make sure you don’t let them steal the same amount of work for less pay.

It was clear that they'd overhired, there wasn't enough work for all the workers so we all sort of saw it coming. I'd had some attendance issues related to depression so I knew that if they did a round of layoffs I was vulnerable to due that. By today I'd worked for about 5 1/2 months in the company, from October to February. They told me they were laying me off and I told them I'd seen it coming and no hard feelings. They then deliberately postdated the “last day” to march 1 so I'd have another month of bennies and gave me 2 weeks PTO to help me look for a new job — this also, “coincidentally,” stretched my time worked so that I just barely qualified for unemployment in my state (which has a cutoff for jobs worked less than 6 months) and made sure the paperwork reflected…