I briefly worked with my last week is a teller up at my local bank. Both she and her mother are really nice--her mom is a hoot--and the few times I've gone inside and seen "B", I've asked her how her mom was doing. I recently was inside the bank and got a chance to speak to B. I asked her how her mom is, she said good. I then asked if her mom was still at my former workplace...B grimaced and said yes, but she's not happy. She then said things have continued to spiral downward since I left, mostly due to...she said "new ownership" but I think she meant new senior management. I left just after a new senior VP came in and started throwing his weight around. My former workplace used to pride itself on only hiring from within...new senior VP has clearly never stepped foot on a manufacturing floor before (or if he did, it was a long time ago and he forgot everything).
marks a year since you left a job you hated and that was a good thing. Can I ask what you mean by your bank account being “technically good” for 4-6 more months? Does that mean you have that much time until you’ll start having to dip into your retirement savings/funds? Or does it mean you have that much time until your bank account will be….empty? 😱
It means I have X amount of money in the bank that can pay my bills for the next 4-6 months and leave me with a bit left over each month. I have two 401Ks--one through the bindery and one through the place I left last year. The one through the bindery is significant, and I have no intention of touching it. The one through my last workplace is just slightly less than what I currently have in the bank and I have from time to time considered cashing it out. But it's so deeply ingrained in me not to do that.
You may remember I used to work with a woman just a little older than me ("Granny"). She'd been a STNA and while she loved the patients, she hated management, so she quit to join us (and make a bit more money). About six months before I left, she was permanently transferred to another building where she clashed with her supervisor (I never heard the supervisor's side but if Granny was telling the truth, I'm on her side). She wound up leaving shortly after I did and going back to her old STNA job. When she left, she had around $8K in her 401K. She asked me if she should cash it out, and my knee jerk reaction was to tell her no. And I did. But she claims some kind of "money expert" in her circle of friends and family told her to cash out and take the tax hit. She didn't have nearly the savings I did and was struggling to pay rent and her car loan.
Either way, I hope you find something soon that you can enjoy or at least live with.
Thanks--me too!
