More details:
It’s nothing personal. “CHI is in a maintenance mode and they’ll be utilizing the web resources available through Caremark and AdvancePCS.” No reflection on my abilities as an employee, it’s all financial. Just as I expected.
3 months severance, 3 months optional insurance, 3 months “we’ll help you find a job with our outreach (or something like that) program.” Also I will still be eligible for the retention bonus that’ll be paid out in May-ish, which is a big plus, and I’ll be getting my vacation paid out instead of taking it. I’m eligible for unemployment.
So overall, the situation really isn’t that dire. We suspected this was coming, so we’ve been saving the advance money (except for the first big one, which we paid the Jeep off with), and there is more advance money on the way.
I had hoped to quit the day job at the end of next year to pursue writing full time; with luck I won’t have to find a new one, even though that schedule’s been moved up a year.
I think I’ll go email Jenn and ask her to chew on Tor’s ankles now, though. o.o
It’s never personal, but it still stings. Jobs may not always be fun, but lack of income can get old pretty fast.
Good job hanging on to advance money, to help you over the hump until… well, until you find a new job or adopt writing as your living. :)
The situation definitely sucks mightily. At least you get SOME severance, which is a hell of a lot better than no severance. Three months of that, stacked on unemployment, will keep you going for a while. Still sucks though…