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    So, I have been working a day job at a major financial services institution since I started business graduate school in the Fall of 2007. Just a little over a year. I graduate this spring, only a couple of semesters to go. So, the position is part-time and no benefits. The only reason why I took a no-benefit job is because my other job offer was at the bank my dad works and he was feeling all weird about me working with him so closely. Anyway, my managers have treated me so bad since I started but I tried not to take it personally. Eventually, I ended up with a "demotion" about 9 months ago, but what my boss said was that they needed help in the operations department and would be moving me there in six weeks. So, I moved there and she started yelling at me about work and how things should be done. I figured that I was being "trained" since I knew very little about this side of the market. I never received a job description of my new position, however I was appraised highly on my bi-annual performance review, even though I knew nothing about the position. Red flags. Is this a case under Fair Employment?Anyway, so I have learned this harsh position (bottom of the totem pole) through and through, and have actually brought some dignity to this position. They always make fun of the guy who had this position previously. So, today when I come into work my boss ask me if I could stay until 4:30pm. Sure, i said. Then an e-mail is sent out that says there is a mandatory meeting for everyone in the conference room at 3:30pm. So, everyone goes into the meeting and the manager is talking about how we are consolidating two branches together due to revenues remaining steady and the need to cut expenses. So, all departments are pretty much full, where are we going to put these people?So, At 4:15pm, my boss grabs me and says that she would like to introduce me to a few people. This is the first time she has done this my whole entire time there (contrary to previous positions I have had at other companies). So, I get excited and follow her down the hall. I see two women looking out the window in an office at the end of the hallway. As I walk by one, someone yells "don't jump." Anyway, I get in the office introduce myself and my boss leaves promptly. The intriduce themselves as the Regional Director and Human Resource Manager. They explain about the consolidation, blah blah blah. And finally to the point, "we are offering you severance package."So, pretty much they want me to work until the consolidation is done in January 2009. Then they will offer my official letter of termination and severance package. My official severance package is about two and a half months of pay without any benefits. Not acceptable. I planned to have this job until graduation, which would only be a couple of months away. I'm wondering what I should do? Should I stay until January 2009 (wrapping up the consolidation) and leave with the miniscule severance package? Should I stay until January 2009 (wrapping up the consolidation), get emotionally and mentally tortured, and claim unemployment until grad school finishes a couple of months down the line? I don't think I could claim unemployment now because the letter they gave me states everything as a "if you are involuntary let go at the consolidation", even though they have already voiced that it is going to happen. Should I look for a new job in this horrible economy (even though with just school and work, it is very hard for me to find free time) and risk my grades faltering? Should I visit the unemployment office tomorrow and see what they have to say? Doesn't the company have to give you your official termination to have those benefits? When I left the office, the office was deserted. Nobody could be found.

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    Can you get any ins through school and just dance until you graduate? Sorry honey..that really sucks. But I dont see any point in staying if its going to make you miserable and you wont get benefits in a cpl months anyway.

    If you stay...go to the Dr EVERY DAY...and dentist and eyeglasses...EVERYTHING. Use those benefits to DEATH until Jan.

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    I didn't want to dance while in grad school because I am to scared to risk having a cohort or professor see me. The curriculum is strenuous already. I already have rumors going around about me because of my prior dancing "in a past life"- is what I call it. I don't want to add more fuel to the fire. I have my own private individual health, dental, vision for awhile, so benefits isn't the problem. It's just that they are offering a severence that states that it includes benefits but it doesn't matter because I don't have benefits with them anyway. And if you elect the severence package then you relinquish your rights to unemployment. I just need some sort of employment (or income -unemployment- until graduation). I'm weighing the options:

    * staying on board until the consolidation is over and getting a two and a half month severence package and looking for employment during the last strenuous semester of grad school.
    *staying on board until the consolidation is over and dancing the last few months and risk getting caught, approximately $90,000 in student loans down the drain, possibly
    * staying on board until the consolidation is over and possibly getting unemployment until I graduate, so I can concentrate on my studies like I planned
    * finding another job now in this bad economy (which I'm hearing that people in my field "financial services/banking" are taking about six months to find jobs) and having my grades suffer from the job search and training for the new position.

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    I'm confused why you thought or expected they would give you a severence with benefits when you dont have benefits with them now? That doesnt make sense...???....A severance is a continuance of what you get paid, not an increase...so if you HAD benefits you would keep them for a few months....

    Take the severance instead of unemployment...unemployment is typically only 1/4 or 1/2 of your income so....youre not doing any favors for yourself by taking it.

    Can you dance somwhere far away from your home? I think you're too worried"getting caught." Even if you did get caught by one person, it's not like your life is over.. It's not like everybody in the whole industry will know...

    Furthermore if you danced somewhere even an hour away, you wont run into anybody. I danced in Chicago when I lived in Milwaukee during college and I ran into one person I knew from MKE in two years...and he wouldnt have recognized me if I hadnt said hi!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honey71783 View Post
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    *staying on board until the consolidation is over and dancing the last few months and risk getting caught, approximately $90,000 in student loans down the drain, possibly
    Why would it be down the drain?? You cant get kicked out of school for dancing...a few people might make it difficult by being a-holes about it,but you'll still have your education.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VegasPrincess View Post
    I'm confused why you thought or expected they would give you a severence with benefits when you dont have benefits with them now? That doesnt make sense...???....A severance is a continuance of what you get paid, not an increase...so if you HAD benefits you would keep them for a few months....

    Take the severance instead of unemployment...unemployment is typically only 1/4 or 1/2 of your income so....youre not doing any favors for yourself by taking it.

    Can you dance somwhere far away from your home? I think you're too worried"getting caught." Even if you did get caught by one person, it's not like your life is over.. It's not like everybody in the whole industry will know...

    Furthermore if you danced somewhere even an hour away, you wont run into anybody. I danced in Chicago when I lived in Milwaukee during college and I ran into one person I knew from MKE in two years...and he wouldnt have recognized me if I hadnt said hi!
    I don't expect a severance with benefits. I was just mentioning that the Directors had mentioned it during the meeting like it was a consideration when in actuality it isn't because I don't have benefits. Therefore they knew nothing about me, my academic/business experience background, and my boss couldn't give me the respect to do it herself. I hate when other people do people's dirty work. Or, I may be overracting.

    You make a serious point about the severance being the entire amount and unemployment being only like half. I did the calculations and the weekly rate proportionate to the wages I earned over the last year was DISGUSTING!!! I could only pay one bill with that.

    Because of your advise, I am definitely considering working through the consolidation and taking the severance package. I just don't know how to compose myself at work for the next three months. What do I say if people ask in a round about way? Like, everyone knows our department is overlapping. People are gonna talk. I know because I was wondering about the receptionist just a minute ago. Just like the other office has a receptionist so what's going to happen to her? She is so nice. Corporate America doesn't have a heart, and if it does, its as hard and cold as stone. Anyway, see how questions arise. People are going to ask. I just don't want to crack (meaning cry or spill the beans) in the next few months. I want to leave with some dignity. I will take my package and then I will only have two months to think about income until graduation. I could probably dance in West Palm Beach or Orlando for those two months. And then finally graduation in June... It's been so hard to work a legit job in the industry that I have my bachelor's in... I've kept this job for so long to be able to have something to contribute during my MBA discussions... I'm going to cry when I walk across that stage and get handed my master's... I already know...

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    Quote Originally Posted by CKXXX View Post
    Why would it be down the drain?? You cant get kicked out of school for dancing...a few people might make it difficult by being a-holes about it,but you'll still have your education.
    I'm not scared of getting kicked out of school. I already have people antagonize me about having me on tape. It's just that the a-holes have already shown their horns. I just don't want it to get any harder than it is. I have nightmares of a video of me dancing being shown during a Powerpoint presentation. I don't know if I could come back to class after that. But, I would continue anyway. Nothing can pretty much stop me now. Except if I got super sick from all this stress or something.... I can't wait until this part of my life is over....

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    ^^If they do that you have a slam dunk lawsuit!

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