Welcome to our world, by which I mean those - of us on the 10:30 call Posted: Jul 26th, 2018 - 7:15 am In Reply to: This is crazy. I am retained until September and - sm
Work started dwindling a lot just after the last PTO payout in April, so be prepared for less and less and then mainly nonexistent work.
If not already, you should get on partial UE since it takes a few weeks and if you still have some work at least you won't be without any income at all.
Weeks before that I was often getting less than full hours, sometimes half, but I actually did okay with less hours since I could keep my line count up.
But once it dropped below half and then lucky if you get 10 hours a week, the writing was on the wall. Account after account disappeared with no explanation - occasionally on weekends you got it back for awhile (presumably the contractors could not meet TAT, is it any wonder with the stories you hear?).
This past month has really been very dry, and a dearth of info from OM, so the obvious conclusion of course was we would be laid off and it was right.
Of course, by that point I was not unhappy at all to be let go since I blew through whatever savings I had including 401K (I had only recently started it anyway and unemployment is not great in my state) and I am uninsured, so I am waiting to see what kind of insurance I am able to get through TAA.
For me it was worth waiting it out to get on TAA and severance, but I have never been on UE before and it's not fun. I do not want to be IC but that's really all there is left, and I realized - after applying for and not getting a few jobs I could have done when I was a teenager - that I do have a profession and I will try to do it for as long as there is any job to be had.
Not for Nuance contractors though, that's for sure. I can deal with lower than minimum wage, but not when they run out of work too and you still have Nuance QA to deal with. No thanks.
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