My workplace just shut down abruptly - the whole business, gone. In other words - I’m out a job now.

I heard they hired some consultants to help restructure the business. Maybe that was a sign I should have updated my résumé? But I understood that if I were fired, then the business was fucked. My job was only worth 17$, but it was one of the many pillars in my department that could not break. “They can’t fire me,” I thought. I guess it was naïve of me to think that toppling the structure wasn’t an option.

Filing for unemployment is always the most tedious shit. I’m not looking forward to it.

I had 71 hours worth of vacation time. I had scheduled some PTO in the morning. Approved in the afternoon. Valueless in the evening.

From the owner, “For you it’s your jobs. For us it was everything”

Fuck you.

Two of my checks bounced back. You better have my money.