My wife decided to stay home last year with our child. She was a teacher and decided to quit at the holidays (the daycare was a nightmare - one day she asked for his empty bottles at the end of the day and there was a look of terror on their faces. They didn't feed him all day. Needless to say, she quit her job and stayed home). I lost my job a week later on December 31st, so we were both unemployed. My company actually kept you on the payroll for a few weeks b/c the layoff was due to a downsizing. They wanted to keep everyone on payroll until they flushed everything out and found out if there would be open positions left that the could offer you. So, they paid you for a few weeks, but your last day was at the 31st. There were some open positions across the country, but we weren't interested in moving to the open places. Fortuantley I found a job 6 weeks later.
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