Hello Reddit,
I am seething with anger and disappoint. I work(ed) for a call center (Bloom Insurance) that was contracted with a insurance company (Aetna Medicare & Silver Script). Everyday I got to help people with insurance. I am I licenced insurance agent. I was paid $17 plus commission for making sales. I've had this job since August 2021, I was one of their top sales agents. After our busy period they offered voluntary furlough to people, I have bills to pay so I didn't do that. Now today, I just got off a Zoom call with some HR lady I've never met before. Myself and lots of other employees have been placed on that voluntary furlough. This was with no warning. I was working one minute and told to go fuck off the next. They'd like up back in August. I won't be coming back.
In very Gen Z fashion I did not take the HR lady's empathy very well. She's been there less than I have, and she said that. I yelled at her that she doesn't understand because she has her job and isn't the one being furloughed.
Today I'm going to apply for unemployment, and work on my small business. Tomorrow I'll apply for jobs, hopefully I get one before bills are due.
Thank you for reading,
A very pissed off insurance agent.