http://www.startupnation.com/business-blogs/index.php/2009/03/06/a-reporter-wants-to-feature-you/ By entrepreneurs. For entrepreneurs. Sun, 27 May 2012 06:23:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.startupnation.com/business-blogs/index.php/2009/03/06/a-reporter-wants-to-feature-you/#comment-19584 Jim Jaggers Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:12:24 +0000 http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/?p=4397#comment-19584 I am in the process of starting a business using my severence pay to live on while we get it up an running. I am in the process of starting a business using my severence pay to live on while we get it up an running.

]]> http://www.startupnation.com/business-blogs/index.php/2009/03/06/a-reporter-wants-to-feature-you/#comment-19133 B Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:51:03 +0000 http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/?p=4397#comment-19133 Severance?!? What's that? LOL. I even lost all accrued PTO (vacation, sick personal) and they barely paid me what they owed me as I was scheduled to have 3 days off the following week. In 2006, 5 weeks after getting married, I got laid off after 7 years at an ad agency They're actually part of a publicly traded global company. Employees were told they had to sign paperwork understanding they would not see any unused PTO upon leaving the company but it was still a punch in the gut when it happened. My business is still being funded by whatever I can scrape together until I hit the big time. Severance?!? What’s that? LOL. I even lost all accrued PTO (vacation, sick personal) and they barely paid me what they owed me as I was scheduled to have 3 days off the following week. In 2006, 5 weeks after getting married, I got laid off after 7 years at an ad agency They’re actually part of a publicly traded global company. Employees were told they had to sign paperwork understanding they would not see any unused PTO upon leaving the company but it was still a punch in the gut when it happened. My business is still being funded by whatever I can scrape together until I hit the big time.

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