While we're on the topic of kids, Dylan cracked me up with a kidism yesterday. We were rehashing the plan of how getting home was going to work ("We're going to cross the street, go inside, check the mail, go upstairs, etc etc") and after he more or less told the whole plan back to me in order I said "Exactamundo!"

To which he repeated, "Exactly...a window!"

Yep, I read up on it. I thinky I will be packing with multiple band-aids and a latex glove on my right hand.

MJ has nothing on my mad packin' style, bitches!

You need to contest that firing with the unemployment folks, Erin, so you can get benefits.

Wait, they fired you AND they're denying you unemployment?!?

Gack, Kristin! Isn't there anything they can do to waive the four-month constraint, given that this is entirely THEIR FAULT?

It just happened yesterday -- I haven't filed yet, so I dunno, Tep.

I would imagine that they will, though. I'm gonna file, anyway, and see.

Oh Erin, I'm so sorry.

Gack, Kristin! Isn't there anything they can do to waive the four-month constraint, given that this is entirely THEIR FAULT?

Yeah, that's what I asked in the email I just sent. I'm trying not to freak out.

It just happened yesterday -- I haven't filed yet, so I dunno, Tep.

Okay, I totally misunderstood someone's post, then.

I would imagine that they will, though. I'm gonna file, anyway, and see.

I always thought -- although it might not be true -- that if you're fired for performance, you can't be denied unemployment; it's if you're fired for stuff like theft that you can be denied unemployment.

But I could be full of shit.

Resort companies will find a reason to weasel out of things. Hubby and I had signed up for a free weekend in Vegas to hear a condo spiel, and the form had a place that said you met a minimum income level. The guy who signed us up said that didn't really matter and initialed that line on the form that we didn't check.

Six months later, we're trying to organize the trip, and the phone minion asked again about the income thing, and I said, no, we don't meet the minimum, and Oh, look, here's my copy of our form with that line unchecked but which is initialed by your representative. Minion's brain locked up at the discrepancy, she got a supervisor on the line who said, "Sorry, you don't meet the requirements, and according to the fine print your deposit is nonrefundable." Unfair and cheesy, but legal.

I always thought that if you were fired for performance, you couldn't file for unemployment.

I think it varies by state, but most places do make a distinction between being fired for performance and misconduct.