My Company changed my hours from 6am-4pm (There is very little time to take a lunch during the day, and I have it in the last six months) I have an hour commute. I told them I was pregnant really struggling with the schedule in the first trimester, I am barely getting to see my children. I asked them for a workable solution, so they came up with the severance. Trust me, if I didn’t take the severance they would’ve walked me out not too long after that anyways and I would have no compensation help. Budget cuts due to the pandemic has been a hot topic with our managers.

They took my position and dissolved it. They hired two people to take my spot at a lower cost to the company And gave them better schedules.

I am fighting with unemployment, because the company said it was voluntary because I took a severance. That stress has got me awake half the night.

The fool in me that I was safe from losing my job due to Covid because I was deemed essential In the worst wave of the pandemic has passed.