I got laid off yesterday. "Reduction in payroll/force" was the check box I had to sign off on. I haven't lost a job since 2000.
It's not so much the direct loss of job. It's the loss of the benefits that is bothering me. Finally landed with a great company with great benefits and just got the ball rolling on bettering my physical health and BAM! I'm out.
Between my final check, remaining PTO and my tax returns I have about 3.5 months to recover before I have to start dipping into my savings and other resources. I'd really like to avoid that.
At least I have extra time for games and keyboards ...
If you're worried about health, Tp4 recommend the Tp4 health plan.. comes with Free veggie chat..
At least tp4 from the best of my knowledge is not the smurfing type. Pretty straight forward and to the albeit sometimes ad nauseam point. Hope you're not out for too long, etc.
My wife is a chef by profession so getting quality meals isn't really a problem. It's actually making it happen after we both work a 10-12 hour day and gorge on late night pizza before bed that's killing us.
As far as being out for too long, I am going to have to be now. My insurance runs out at the end of the month so tomorrow I'm going in for surgery before it does. My recovery time will be 3-4 weeks before I can go back to work light duty, then 4-6 before I can be back at it with no restrictions. It's convenient that I don't have to go to work but it sucks not having anything to go straight back to.
It's a simple surgery, be 1.5-2 hours.
I'm just bothered because I have to be put under and I don't even take sleep aids because of some irrational fear of not waking up.
They're using a robot so that's cool I guess.