Re: Happy Holidaze?

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:39:03 -0500, The Lord of Eltingville
<tthomas@[REMOVE_TO_REPLY]ogre.net> wrote:

>Brad Greer wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:27:59 -0500, The Lord of Eltingville
>> <tthomas@[REMOVE_TO_REPLY]ogre.net> wrote:
>>
>> >cj wrote:
>> >>
>> >> i found out that we we were getting laid off this week so i quit! it was
>> >> a lame job anyway.
>> >
>> >That seems like a dopey thing to do. If you'd let them lay you off, you
>> >could have collected unemployment (and maintained health insurance)
>> >while looking for a new job. Unless you can prove that you had good
>> >reason to quit (a pending layoff won't qualify), it's unlikely that
>> >you'll be approved for any sort of benefits.
>>
>> Not to mention most companies give some sort of compensation package
>> when they lay you off (if for no other reason than getting you to
>> agree not to sue them for wrongful termination in return for getting
>> some cash). For example, I was laid off of a job about 11 years ago.
>> I got two weeks pay plus two weeks pay for every year I had worked
>> there, rounding up to the next highest year. So, for me I got the
>> "base" two weeks, plus an additional 6 weeks for the 2 1/2 years I had
>> worked there.
>
>The last full-time ofice job I had (BBN Planet/GTE
>Internetworking/Genuity) laid me off in 11/2001. I got 6mo salary, plus
>all my unused vacation time (5 weeks) and unused sick time (1 week),
>plus the bonus I was due to receive the following month (~3 weeks'
>pay). Then there was the unemployment benefits that I'd been paying
>into over the years....

This is a common misconception. Unemployment benefits are financed
entirely by taxes on employers.
>
JimK
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