[at-l] I Have This Friend

[gregbrown at mindspring.com (Greg Brown)]

A couple thoughts.  As was previously mentioned many states and 
counties require you two submit X resumes each week while on 
unemployment and go in a periodic reviews to ensure that you are doing 
"your end" of the work to qualify for unemployment.

Instead of quitting your friend can come straight out and asked to be 
laid off.  I did this at Lucent a couple years ago.  I volunteered for 
the layoff early, got my exit package, and out the door I went.

A third option is to investigate her companies short term disability 
plan.  If the job is causing that much stress, and I have lived through 
jobs that did and seen jobs that were even worse, there may be a chance 
a physician could claim that the stress is causing physical damage to 
her (high blood pressure, lack of sleep, constant bouts of insane mood 
swings, etc) and he might sign the forms claiming that she is disabled. 
  And, if so, she gets a percentage of her paycheck for a couple months 
while she walks the woods and levels back out.

I'd investigate option #3.

Greg

On Mar 28, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Nina wrote:

> So, like, I have this friend. She's really cool and nice and all.
>
> She really hates her job and is planning to resign in the very, very,
> VERY near future. Then, she heard that, like, she might get laid off
> anyway, but she doesn't know if it'll be next week or next month, or
> in six months. So she's wondering if she should just wait it out so
> she can get unemployment, or if she should, like, hand in the
> resignation letter this week as planned. If she stays at the job much
> longer though, she'll end up in, like, the loony bin or something.
> Really.
>
> What does this have to do with hiking? Well, this friend, she's a
> REALLY COOL hiker who is planning on a two-week AT hike between her
> last day at work and Trail Days. Then she's gonna look for a job after
> that. And if she waits to get laid off, she might not end up having
> time to do that hike. And if she can't do a somewhat lengthy hike
> soon, then, well, maybe y'all can visit her in the state mental
> hospital or something. She'll be the one with the straightjacket.
>
> Any suggestions/advice?
>
> Waterfall
>
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