Life Happens While You're Busy Living It

My husband is officially unemployed. 

We've known for months that his warehouse was closing, and the product they distributed was going elsewhere. We've had months to prepare for this. But it's still a bit of a shocker.

The end date for his employment was supposed to be October 31st. Yesterday, they started offering early release to those who showed an interest in it. My husband was the third person they spoke to. 

Hubs had been unhappy for years at his place of employment - a series of things that were unfair, and just not right. All to ensure that the company continued to make a profit. His supervisor started changing toward Hubs, and damn near became a tyrant by the end. They wanted him to quit, and they tried every method they could to get rid of him, but he never did. They tried to set him up to do something that they could fire him for, and that never worked either.

Most of his co-workers were so frustrated, they just walked away. Without the severance package, or the retention bonus, just as the company planned. My husband refused to let them have the satisfaction of him just walking away, and them not paying him. So he stayed.

Until yesterday.

It will be a couple of weeks before his severance is paid out, along with the vacation time owed to him, and that retention bonus. In about a month, he will be contacted about his group RSP and we can move those funds to our bank.

Being down to one income will likely make our budget so tight it squeaks, but we have money in our Emergency Fund to fill any little gaps that might happen. We are fortunate in that respect.

Hubs has a plan to take some down time for himself and to do some thinking on what he might want to do next. We are at an age when getting a new job could be a bit tricky because we are less than 15 years away from retirement. 

We are so fortunate to able to handle this bump in the road without much stress. In fact, him not going to the warehouse lowers his stress level. We will take this season of uncertainty in stride and put the plan we have into action.

We will get through this.

Down to one income a mere six days before our one year wedding anniversary. How interesting life can be.