Re: Unemployment

[Kat Nagel <kat_nagel -at- rte -dot- com>]

I started the ball rolling this morning.  Based on previous
experience, it will take the state the full two weeks to process the
paperwork.

Kat Nagel          kat_nagel -at- rte -dot- com 
Seen on the Net:
"The cup is half empty. Deal with it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cavalcante [mailto:JoeC -at- shakercom -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:48 AM
To: STC Lone Writer SIG
Cc: TECHWR-L list
Subject: [stclwrsig-l] RE: Unemployment


Dear Kat,

First things first:  Go and file for unemployment as soon as you are
released.  Your FORMER employer may be reclassifying you as an external
resource in its project plans, but that matters not a whit to your state
board of employment.  Go file and let the state determine your eligibility.
I can't stress that enough to ANYONE who has EVER been let go.  THE STATE
DETERMINES YOUR ELIGIBILITY, NOT YOUR FORMER EMPLOYER.

Employers pay a portion of a claimant's unemployment check, so some
companies do everything they can to discourage terminated employees from
filing.

Worry about how freelancing affects your unemployment when it actually
happens.

With you,
Joe Cavalcante
Senior Communications Specialist
SHAKER Computer and Management Services, Inc.
518 242-7200



-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Noftz Nagel [mailto:katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:42 AM
To: STC Lone Writer SIG
Cc: TECHWR-L list; STC Lone Writer SIG
Subject: [stclwrsig-l] Looks like I'll be freelancing again


Got called into NewBoss's office this afternoon.  RTE "has 
re-evaluated the way it handles documentation, in the light of the 
current economic situation, and has decided that it would be in the 
company's best interest to continue our relationship on a freelance 
basis".

In two weeks I get my last paycheck as a full-time employee.  No firm 
commitment to how many freelance projects they plan on, of course, or 
to a specific pay rate.  <sigh>  It isn't clear whether I'll be 
eligible for unemployment benefits, either, since I haven't actually 
been laid off, just 'reclassified as an external resource' (whatever 
that means).

That was at 5:30 PM.  When I got home at 7:00 and looked at the mail, 
I found the estimate for car repairs from my close encounter with the 
deer---$5200+change.  Thank <insert Deityname> for a good insurance 
company with a reasonable adjustor and a dynamite local agent.
-- 
Kat Nagel
"If the business notion of best practices had been applied from the
  dawn of human civilization, human beings never would have achieved
  civilization."         Christopher Locke,  EGR newsletter 15May2001

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