Not sure, I just applied for it
on friday. They are processing it. $1K a month for unemployment, my house payment is more than that. Work said they would not contest it, but I didn't get that in writing. They were in a hurry to let me go for some reason. They have ads in the paper for new positions and one of them would replace my old one. So I think they had planed to get rid of my position and hire someone else in the start of 2002.
So far it is too early to tell if I am going to get unemployment. Someone else who was in almost the same positon I was, but he got let go last year, he at first didn't get unemployment but had to fight for it and finally won. Right now he has to work two 40+ hour fast food jobs a week to make ends meet, and his wife divorced him in the process. But he only had like 8 months experience in the IS field, where I have over 10 years experience. I think that makes me more marketable. I still keep in contact with him via email, I think he got a raw deal.
