You can ask but I wouldn’t expect much, if anything. My former employer did not offer me any severance after 8ish years of busting my butt for them with little in the way of acknowledgement/appreciation or decent raises. Never once promoted. I was put on the spot by HR and asked what I had in mind as far as severance. Mind you this was after they had already tried to interfere with my unemployment claim, which was my only avenue of bringing in any income especially with them not giving me any severance. I was offered six months of continued health coverage paid by them, that was it.

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August 20,2024 at 5:57PM UTC

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You can ask but I wouldn’t expect much, if anything. My former employer did not offer me any severance after 8ish years of busting my butt for them with little in the way of acknowledgement/appreciation or decent raises. Never once promoted. I was put on the spot by HR and asked what I had in mind as far as severance. Mind you this was after they had already tried to interfere with my unemployment claim, which was my only avenue of bringing in any income especially with them not giving me any severance. I was offered six months of continued health coverage paid by them, that was it.

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