Recently fired employee uses the perfect tactic to collect a bigger severance: ‘I send a thank you and it doesn't register as sent, seems he immediately blocked me’
Laid-Off To DreamlandSome of us can only dream of something like this ever happening to us. We dream not only of being given the opportunity to stop going to our boring jobs one lucky day, but also of being paid to do it. That's extremely luxurious. And also something to be celebrated.If this employee had planned it, it wouldn't have come out this good. But sometimes, stars align, and things like this happen- not always, but they do.Being laid off can be really stressful. If you have no savings, which is something that's becoming increasingly hard to have, you are forced to get a job as soon as possible, and that can be tricky and stressful in itself. You're running out of money, and you have to seem professional and easygoing, like you weren't worried about whether you'd be able to afford groceries the upcoming week.At any rate, at risk of sounding too cliché, some of the best opportunities in our lives appear in the worst possible moments; at least in my life, it always happened like this. This doesn't mean it doesn't take any effort to be granted an opportunity; it just means that sometimes, even though we work hard, things don't seem to be going our way, but if we hang in ther…