#Terminated #Unemployment #JobLoss
🚫 Just Terminated 3 Days Ago: Understanding Unemployment and Moving Forward 🚫
If you’ve just been terminated from your job, you’re probably feeling a whirlwind of emotions. Whether it was unexpected or a long time coming, losing your job can be a devastating experience. But fear not! You’re not alone, and there are steps you can take to bounce back and find your footing. In this article, we’ll delve into the world of unemployment, provide some guidance, and offer hope for the future.
### The Rollercoaster of Emotions
When you receive the news that your employment has been terminated, it’s natural to feel a wide range of emotions. From shock and anger to sadness and anxiety, it’s okay to experience these feelings. Allow yourself to grieve the loss of your job, but also remember that this is not the end. You have a bright future ahead, and taking proactive steps now will set you on the right path.
### Understanding Unemployment Benefits
After being terminated, one of the first steps you should take is to apply for unemployment benefits. These benefits are designed to provide temporary financial assistance to individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Here’s what you need to know about unemployment benefits:
#### Eligibility Criteria
– Each state has its own eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits, but in general, you must have lost your job through no fault of your own, meet certain work and wage requirements, and be actively seeking new employment.
#### How to Apply
– Visit your state’s unemployment website or local unemployment office to file a claim. You will need to provide personal information, employment history, and details about your termination.
#### Financial Support
– Unemployment benefits typically provide a percentage of your previous earnings for a limited time. While it may not fully replace your previous income, it can help cover essential expenses as you search for new opportunities.
### Coping with Job Loss
Losing a job can have a profound impact on your mental well-being and sense of identity. It’s important to give yourself permission to grieve and process the loss while also taking proactive steps to move forward. Consider the following strategies for coping with job loss:
#### Seek Support
– Reach out to family, friends, or a support group to share your feelings and receive encouragement. Surrounding yourself with a strong support system can help ease the emotional burden.
#### Take Care of Yourself
– Engage in self-care activities such as exercise, meditation, and hobbies that bring you joy. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle will positively impact your mental and emotional well-being.
#### Explore New Opportunities
– Use this time to reflect on your career goals and consider new paths or industries that align with your skills and passions. Networking, updating your resume, and applying for new positions can help reignite your sense of purpose.
### Moving Forward
While the road ahead may seem uncertain, remember that your termination does not define you. Embrace the opportunity for growth and explore new possibilities. Here are some actionable steps you can take to move forward:
#### Build a Strong Professional Network
– Leverage your connections and reach out to colleagues, mentors, and industry professionals. Networking can open doors to new job opportunities and provide valuable guidance.
#### Invest in Skill Development
– Consider enhancing your skills or acquiring new certifications that will make you a more competitive candidate in the job market. Online courses, workshops, and volunteer work are excellent ways to expand your skill set.
#### Stay Positive and Persistent
– Job hunting can be challenging, but maintaining a positive mindset and staying persistent will ultimately lead you to success. Celebrate small victories along the way and keep pushing forward.
In conclusion, losing your job can be a difficult and disheartening experience, but it’s crucial to remember that this is not the end of your journey. Embrace the opportunity for growth, seek support, and take proactive steps towards a brighter future. You are resilient, talented, and capable of overcoming this setback. With determination and a positive outlook, you will find new opportunities and achieve success in your career once again. 🌟
Cant you sue them for dubious information ?
Contact the department of labor in your area, unless you’re in a right to work state. This seems to be an unlawful termination.
You need an attorney that deals specifically with workers rights and wrongful termination
That last line saved this whole post. Thankfully you saved. I was going to say hopefully you invested those bonuses and checks. Corporate America will use you, then spit you out in a heart beat. Sorry to hear you got the can though, that is never fun. I’d take come time off and get back to it, if you want to. Or maybe you’re at the point of retirement.
I hope you negotiated a greatseverance package and filed for unemployment immediately
IT worker – a few years ago my boss’s boss (at another site 3 states away) just sent an email to our team saying summarily “if you don’t see your name on the schedule then we have no more work for you”.
Geez sorry that’s bs
I have story remarkably similar to yours (12 years at a telecom company) was terminated around 5 years ago in a similar way after an investigation. I couldn’t eat for days and felt like a failure. I did end up getting unemployment somehow and have bounced back and make over double what I made with them. Let me know if you need any advice. I strongly feel like you’ll end up in a better more challenging role and this will turn out to be a good thing.
You may consider getting an attorney. If you didn’t do anything you didn’t. I would write everything down in order with dates, names and discussion. This is reputation for future work.Good luck!
you didn’t lose.
You gave your all for a worthless shitty employer, they fail their employees while making money off their backs, stealing their work, stealing their ideas, and then throwing them into the abyss while without so much as an apology, and nobody in power gives a fucking fuck.
I wish it weren’t that way. The fact people can withhold references and essentially blackmail you for life if you review bad companies is a big problem too.
Godspeed.
Sounds like this was a setup to let you go without severance because you’re fired “for cause”. There are companies that will pull this shit to save a buck. All for the sake of the dollar!
I am assuming you are in the US based on the way you speak and spelling, but if you are not in the US then none of this applies.
1. Forget talking to an attorney, you were not wrongfully terminated, at-will employment means they can fire you at any time for any reason (except expressly being part of a protected class) or for no reason at all.
2. If you knew about the illegal actions of your bosses and didn’t report it then you are an accessory after the fact. Not likely to rise to the level of criminal charges, but I certainly wouldn’t keep an employee around who turned a blind eye to fraud occurring. In fact I would argue that that would be considered fired for cause and make you not eligible for unemployment.
3. You should file for unemployment and let your former company make the claim, many companies, especially larger ones, don’t bother trying to block unemployment.
4. With that much sales experience and that record I suspect you won’t have much issue finding a new job and being very successful at it.
You will be fine! I am two years younger and I also started in the telecom. Transitioned over to the fintech and now working in the pet nutrition industry. You have a ton of sales experience! use those skills during an interview, even if it’s a different industry. for the most part, the technical information you can learn, it’s the work ethic and hustle you will bring to the table.
It’s shitty, but if it helps, know that it wasn’t personal and the firing didn’t really relate to someone thinking you were part of the fraud.
This is simply the “advantages” of at-will employment the employer enjoys. The employee supposedly has advantages, too, because without any other overriding governing employment contract, they can just quit instantly without cause or explanation, and there’s no legal recourse for the employer against you. They cannot sue you because your departure “left them in a bind” or was somehow otherwise costly or inconvenient for them.
But reality being what it is, at-will is somewhat un-level, as the employee almost always needs the paycheck far more than the employer needs the employee.
The employer either structures the company and work, so no one person’s absence is catastrophic, or they get a substantial employment contract in place. One that generally offers significant “consideration” (pay, a guaranteeed term of employment, bennies, bonus, or just the job itself) to the employee in exchange for accepting the contract.
In this case, I would suspect that your termination was simply because of your boss and their boss being terminated for possible fraud of some sort, as a “better safe than sorry” sort of thing.
They have no evidence or overt reason to believe you were involved in the fraud, and probably nothing that proves or even hints you knew of your superior’s fraud.
Perhaps they don’t totally 100% understand how your former boss & their boss carried out the fraud, just that it happened. And they worry there’s a chance you do know how it’s done, and could carry on with an improved/updated version of the scheme, based on avoiding whatever revealed your boss and their boss.
Or that your former boss and boss-boss might contact you with such information, getting some sort of revenge if you carried on with it in their place.
Possibly, they are worried you are unhappy or disgruntled that your boss and their boss got fired, regardless of possible fraud. Or that you might tell other employees about the fraud, causing reputational harm to the company. Maybe fearing it gives others the idea of looking into how such fraud might work and if they might get away with it.
Then, the company is now on the hook to spend millions restructuring processes, hiring auditors and compliance people, or adding technology & security to prevent such things.
As an active employee working during or under the fraud scheme, even if not participating in it or knowing it was happening, you are possibly someone a government or regulatory agency could question. Or perhaps another internal corporate security, compliance, or audit department could question you.
And they have no clue what you know or might say.
Or, perhaps honestly and truly knowing nothing makes the company, that division, or department look bad somehow.
If you don’t work there, perhaps that severs the relationship, and you can’t legally be interviewed or questioned by the regulatory authority or the company’s internal compliance department. Or, it removes you from a list of employees that could be retrievable for such interviews. Granted, any such minimally competent organization ought to look at anyone who quit or was terminated close in time to the fraud or problem. Although, maybe such a simple ruse indeed “hides you” well enough because it’s a lousy or convoluted bureaucratic system.
At any rate, providing ANY of this as reasons to terminate you, to you, or even to themselves as internal documentation of some sort, there’s zero upside to it, and only downsides.
By doing so, putting down: “_Terminated for maybe something – something vague and the chance of being somehow related to the former boss’ fraud_…” puts them in the position of then having to document it. Creating paper trails or records that could be subject to legal subpoenas or discovery in a civil suit by you or someone else.
And then, if they tried to hide, erase, or destroy such information to avoid subpoena or discovery, they are now in even more trouble than whatever the whole thing was about in the first place.
And by firing you under at-will employment without cause and not listing any reason, they avoid any or all of this. And from having to document anything related to it.
If you’re salty about it, the way to dig in and bring pain to your former employer over all this is to see if there’s any internal audit/compliance, ethics department, or “corporate ombudsman” you can bring the whole situation’s attention to.
In a similar fashion, if you’re in the US, possibly the FCC has some authority over this since you state it was a telecom company.
Or, since you state, “orders” were related to the “fraud” somehow…
Perhaps they were direct accounts-payable fraud & checks to fake vendors that were really just your boss and her boss as embezzlement?
Or were these orders for your former employers telecom services? Possibly fake ones to boost commissions or metrics for the department?
And it’s a bigger, publicly traded telecom company?
Again, the FCC, AND now the SEC, and the CFPB could all get involved… The FCC under all sorts of telecom-related stuff, the SEC under Sarbanes Oxley compliance, and the CFPB under Framk Dodd.
Even if whatever your boss and her boss stole or faked was ultimately “small potatoes,” HOW they did it, how or why the company didn’t catch them, and for how long, _might be a very big deal_. Especially if it gets into significant flaws in how a publicly traded company, and possibly also a telecom/utility/common-carrier operates and gathers information on profits, which is “material & privileged information” related to public financial reporting…
Certain Federal Whistle-blower laws & rules provide for a percentage share of fines & things charged over an investigation to whoever reported it.
Your company is not your friend , this is giving your fullest is bad idea all together.
I had been through something similar. My previous director had terminated my job because the upper management wanted to begin embezzling money. My position was overseeing any unlawful activities. The problem we are facing is the ‘at will’ law gives employers to terminate workers who have a long tenure and/or ways to save their profits.
I now face a more difficult situation because of my age. I’m not old, but many employers will discriminate based upon their age.
Unfortunately, more employers will choose the easier path of resistance than trying to ensure longevity for their employees.
Do you as well faced similar challenges? I really believe that changes are necessary but how do you change an individual and/or a team’s behavior of way too much power?
You need to ask for a mutual arbitration agreement STAT. don’t sign anything until you get that taken care of
I wish you the best in getting another job
Oh. Did I ask?
Boom sucka!
Sounds like Comcast
Florida?
I couldn’t imagine working at 1 place for that amount of time. Consider it a silver lining. A doorway to bigger and better opportunities. I’m sure you’ll find a new job in no time.
Shit happens. Move on. Do not let the job situation defines ur worth in particular family. And ur ex-coworkers are no longer ur coworkers
Did they offer you severance? (assuming they have a severance policy)
I would be curious if someone did a reference check on you if they would say you are eligible for employment or not.
File for UI, it will be interesting to see if they challenge that. And if they did, it would be interesting what they would say in a UI appeal hearing as to the “for cause” reason.
This happened to me 4 months ago . My whole store was terminated for sales and I was part of management . They did a whole investigation on us and were also told we should be fine . But that was wrong . I think it was the best thing for me that happened . I was with them for 12 years. I was comfortable there . The money was great and the people but companies don’t care for anyone . What I hate is that upper management knew how sales were being done , they said we weren’t doing it the right way but they were the ones pushing us to sell more and more . But they still have their jobs…
I was able to file unemployment in my state , maybe give that a try.
To be honest I was depressed for a month or so just due to being there for a while and I just couldn’t believe that just happened but you’ll realize things are meant to happen for a reason and maybe this happened to you for a reason . Best of luck ! 🤞
What is the deal with all the people on here that have to be right or they get all hateful about it? You want to call me an idiot? How about this – so supposedly I can’t take 2 seconds to check Wikipedia (SERIOUSLY- WIKIPEDIA?!?!) to check the difference between at-will and right-to-work but YOU can’t take 2 seconds to read the thread rules against hateful content??? Who cares if it’s 2 different pieces of legislation? In practice, in the real world, it means the SAME THING. You as a worker have no protections and they can fire you for anything. Period. Get over that junior high bully, keyboard courage crap. It’s unbecoming, unprofessional, and immature.
Not to mention really callous given that a lot of people on this thread have recently been fired from a job for frivolous reasons and all the sucky crud that goes along with it, like the feeling of letting your family down, like OP said. So these people are already hurting enough and you’re going to go and add to it?!?! Wow I hope you’re proud of yourself. I hope you feel like such a big man because you made it through law school at the University of American Samoa. Will be scouring this thread for any additional hateful content and will be reporting it, as I have already done with one user.
Sounds like telecom, 20 years with a lec, through many buyouts and name changes. Finally.had enough when the last buyer tried to make the national business side act like the local union side. Now I splice fiber
Your wages were costing the company too much money. That’s it.
Two things, get a decent employment lawyer asap and give them all your ‘evidence’ that you started saving from when your old boss got the bullet, you did start gathering evidence right?
Secondly, if you’re genuinely a good salesman and top in your industry then you will have no worries as your old company’s rivals will snap you up in an instant.
Though keep it quiet that you are starting legal proceedings against your old company as company bosses tend to get a bit shifty about employees that have balls and take people to court over their shady dealings.
Good luck and hang on in there, you will get a win in the end!