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Old 09-23-2005, 03:59 PM   #21
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Nords:* Just off the top of my head, there are quite a number of "performance issues" to contend with for early retirees:

Maintaining a low handicap in golf,
Choosing the right "pattern" for fly-fishing,
and last, but not least, there is a little blue pill that takes care of the most important "performance issue". (Although, this may be redundent, as Brat may have already addressed this in her post. )

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Re: How to leave current job?
Old 09-23-2005, 04:00 PM   #22
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I got another two weeks to go on my job. I almost like going there now. I don't do anything, I surf, run errands and all sorts of other personal stuff. I make sure my face is seen some time before lunch and after lunch. Ranking & rating, performance and deadlines - shove it all!

I was told my job ceases to exist because there is nothing left to do for me any more. No problem, I will gladly take the three months of pay and 6 months of unemployment bennies. Oops, they just found out that I am the only one who knows how to do certain things. The continuous stream of 'urgent' emails, pages, phone calls, one-on-ones and meeting requests on my latest projects are all ignored answered with a very friendly 'I do the best I can' and it is 'on top of my list'. Geeh, can't they figure out that four months of 'urgent' stuff should not be piled on someone who is walking out in two weeks and has another 30 hours of vacation time to burn before.

Until I am walked out. I will have to pretend that I am performing/working otherwise I can still be fired according to the notorious documents in my grey folder that have been handed out generously lately.

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Old 09-23-2005, 04:06 PM   #23
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I got another two weeks to go on my job. I almost like going there now. I don't do anything, I surf, run errands and all sorts of other personal stuff. I make sure my face is seen some time before lunch and after lunch. Ranking & rating, performance and deadlines - shove it all!

I was told my job ceases to exist because there is nothing left to do for me any more. No problem, I will gladly take the three months of pay and 6 months of unemployment bennies. Oops, they just found out that I am the only one who knows how to do certain things. The continuous stream of 'urgent' emails, pages, phone calls, one-on-ones and meeting requests on my latest projects are all ignored answered with a very friendly 'I do the best I can' and it is 'on top of my list'. Geeh, can't they figure out that four months of 'urgent' stuff should not be piled on someone who is walking out in two weeks and has another 30 hours of vacation time to burn before.

Until I am walked out.* I will have to pretend that I am performing/working otherwise I can still be fired according to the notorious documents in my grey folder that have been handed out generously lately.

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Vicky, it's been many many years since I went through this but I
remember it well. "Lame duckism" sucks, big time!

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Old 09-23-2005, 04:22 PM   #24
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While this is true in some sense, it doesn't mean what sensible people might think it means.* In order to have an enforcible law, "actively looking for work" has to mean something very specific.* It turns out that in most states it means you have to send out two resumes or talk to a couple of potential employers each week.* You get to choose who to talk to or where to send the resumes.

In reality, the only check on whether you do this or not is your answer to a question from the authorities each week.* Many states make the questions available to you over the internet or via an automated phone system.* So once a week you have to call or log on and say "send me the money."* My guess is that a lot of people don't even send out two resumes and simply lie.* As far as I can tell, states do nothing to try to discover the truth.* It probably would cost them more to expose fraud than it costs them to simply pay the benefits.* *
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Old 09-23-2005, 05:17 PM   #25
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Vicky, it's been many many years since I went through this but I
remember it well.* "Lame duckism" sucks, big time!

JG
Interesting observation.* From time to time I go through this in the military.* I am kind of in one of them as we speak.* The organization reorganized about 3 weeks ago an since I am getting ready to deploy I wasn't really given a role.* No worries though.

Today one of the top guys in the organization said you can always tell when a guy is getting ready to leave for a while, he is doing a lot more PT, his run time is improving and the SLIC (self licking ice cream cone) of work just doesn't seem that important.*

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Old 09-24-2005, 08:37 AM   #26
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What "performance issues" would an early retiree give a shi! about?
Having a nest egg that was large enough to fund a Viagra prescription later in life
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Old 09-24-2005, 09:13 AM   #28
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At the beginning of this year, I had planned to give my 2 week notice in June and leave after the 4th of July (to get an extra paid holiday) but my former employer decided to alter my plans and laid me off 3 months before I was going to leave.
As a consolation prize for my 21 years of service, they gave me 6 months of severance pay with health benefits (I tried unsuccessfully to squeeze another 2 months), 3 weeks vacation, 3 more weeks of vacation (due to the vague wording that I caught on their the separation letter) and 26 weeks of UC.

Their plan worked out to be much better than mine. I can live with that.
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Old 09-24-2005, 07:31 PM   #29
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At the beginning of this year, I had planned to give my 2 week notice in June and leave after the 4th of July (to get an extra paid holiday) but my former employer decided to alter my plans and laid me off 3 months before I was going to leave.
As a consolation prize for my 21 years of service, they gave me 6 months of severance pay with health benefits (I tried unsuccessfully to squeeze another 2 months), 3 weeks vacation, 3 more weeks of vacation (due to the vague wording that I caught on their the separation letter) and 26 weeks of UC.

Their plan worked out to be much better than mine. I can live with that.
Thanks for all the posts and comments. I'll wait and see how they handle the termination. They may well turn out to have a better plan than mine. At this point its impossible to out-guess them.

This lame duck transition period it a real pill though. Just get it over with already!

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