r/jobs • u/Whole_Relief8299 • 3d ago

Layoffs Just got laid off via text

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I’ve been crying so much over this. I genuinely can’t believe how heartless some people can be…

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u/Shadow_Integration 3d ago

Time for a follow-up text to request your record of employment and to file for unemployment insurance due to layoff. If they contest it, you'll have this screenshot as evidence.

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u/TIC321 3d ago

When its a legitimate layoff, I don't panic anymore. I learned from covid. Unemployment isn't bad. I see it as a vacation from work. During that time, I enjoyed not working after many years of working very hard.

I work 2 jobs now and I miss it sometimes. I have a full-time job thats very stable and a part of a union. I cant stand working for private sectors anymore because they can fire you for any reason very easily

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u/FluidLock 3d ago

Unemployment is only fun if you have money set aside for this exact situation. Fortunately when I get laid off early in the year it was ok I had some money saved up. But by the time I found a job I was super lucky because my UEI was running out and so was the money I saved up.

I can say I miss having so much more time to relax, go to the gym at whatever time I wanted to, play video games and sleep in. But I’m more happy that I can pay all my bills and still have money left over at the end of the month. The unemployment checks were barely cutting it for me and wouldn’t be enough if I wasn’t living with my parents. I would’ve been living in my car.

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u/Suavecore_ 3d ago

Well, he learned from Covid which means he was getting his UEI and another $600/week on top of it

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u/imapilotaz 3d ago

Yeah. If i get unemployment, i get a roughly 75% pay cut. So, yeah UI doesnt magically fix things.

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u/Tearakudo 2d ago

The last time I collected UEI I went from 40/yr to $200/wk - yeah, it's not a good time. Especially with so many states pushing into the 'effort' bullshit conservatives enjoy so much. I had to drive 50miles round trip to a UEI office EVERY WEEK and have an appointment with someone to continue collecting, eating roughly 10% of my UEI in gas

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u/pissedpiglet 2d ago

Yeah you definitely need to have additional money sitting aside when you go on unemployment. My ex went from an $70k/year job to about 200 a week. That pretty much was just enough for our groceries. I had to pick up the utilities on top of the mortgage I was already covering by myself. And she rode that unemployment out until it ran out. And she was slacking on getting a job, applying was so hard and gave her headaches apparently. Anyways, that’s why she’s an ex now lol

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u/SourceFire007 2d ago

No, but it’s better than loosing 100% of the salary…

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u/Freedom_by_vanlife94 2d ago

I made more on unemployment during covid than I've ever made from working. It was a paid vacation for like a year and it was awesome.

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u/Suavecore_ 2d ago

Everyone getting the Covid payment, even before their own unemployment income, was already making more than me while I managed a gas station during that time. I had a friend who had the audacity to complain he was bored while making more than double what I made while working. What a time to have a "non-essential" job..

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u/Bodees1979 2d ago

This is what has always bothered me. I worked two "essential" jobs during covid and would have made more money on unemployment still. I am still mad that they never made it up to those of us who worked through all of it. I had no issue at the time since I think a lot of people would have been homeless and stuff without the extra money. But why couldn't they try to do anything for us in the future? Better interest rates on homes and cars and loans in general? Given us tax breaks on a lot of things in years to come? Instead we kept everything going and got completely sh*t on for it. So we could struggle while we watched most of the world have an extended vacation.

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u/SeaworthinessHot2770 1d ago

I agree! My daughter worked through Covid at a grocery store. I worked through it as a hospital secretary. Neither one of us made big wages. There was talk at one point essential workers would get extra compensation. Of course nothing came of that. We all worked stressed and scared we were going to die from Covid.

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u/Parking-External-112 1d ago

Yeah, that shit was fucked.

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u/Summer-Rain206 2d ago

I was collecting EI during covid (Canada). Payments were capped and I received less than I would before covid. There was no "double dipping" if that's what you are implying.

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u/One_Addendum1873 2d ago

Yeah. As someone unemployed NOT during COVID, twice in the last three years (tech sector mass layoffs). It is not fun. I went from having a robust savings to considering bankruptcy and am still living paycheck to paycheck trying to catch up.

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u/CubedRubyx 2d ago

People were getting unemployment + $600/wk in COVID? I'm so mad I was an "essential" worker... Fuck that nonsense. I worked at McDonald's for $10/hr and struggled through my bills and food every month.