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I wish we knew how many, if any, were desperate enough - to go with Mercedes!

Posted: Sep 10, 2014

i hope - not one single person (nm)

What was sad was the first person chosen to ask questions yesterday... - anon

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expressed her enthusiasm for signing Mercedes contract without any hesitancy at all. Seemed like she couldn't have been happier to sign.

Sad.

I bet I know who it is. - Not me!!

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A "real" person - or a bait troll?

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Lol!

Yep, a real person. - nm

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She may be happy now, but what she doesn't - (sm) - Layla

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realize is, Mercedes (snooty name, by the way) doesn't really want any of you. They want your ACCOUNTS. There was probably some sort of a deal made between them and your current company to offer you "jobs" in order to save either of them having to pay for unemployment benefits. And those they DO hire obviously are naive enough to think they're going to be able to live on what they plan to pay you. They'll only keep those employees until they get the new accounts up to speed, then they'll be switched over to something new and hideous, and will be nitpicked until they quit, so they can send it all offshore.

These days it's hard to believe there even IS any employee at your current job who would be "happy" to join Mercedes. More likely, this invisible "caller" in the conference call was a company plant.

None of us are employees, we're all IC's! No unemployment bennies. - OTIer

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Who could possibly be excited about a 50% pay cut? - LongtimeMT

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My opinion is that "caller" just had to be a "company plant." Because I don't know ANYONE (MT or in any other industry for that matter) who would be enthusiastic about getting their pay cut by 50%. A person would have to be insane to be excited about doing the same work but now at only half the pay.

Bingo. You got that right. - no msg

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If you turn down their offer - can you draw UE?

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Just curious?

No - not if you're an IC. You have to be a laid off employee to claim - UE

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Ah! Okay, didnt realize they were ICs - TY (nm)

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unemployment - cindy

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I collected it a year after being let go from a major company, but I was an employee. I you have worked at a job within a year to 16 or 18 months before this job you can collect it it just won't be as much. I worked for about a year as a CNA and then when my job ran out of work as an IC CNA I tried to collect unemployment and they go back and make you list the jobs you have had and I collected it from my previous job. That's the good thing about being an employee.

That is not always so - pays to file

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In some states, especially if you can show you were more of an employee than a contractor, you will get UE if you are a contractor. You have nothing to lose by filing. Worst case is you get denied. Best is you are approved.

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