ARggh I lost my post earlier today 
I pressed Save as Draft and it disappeared.
DH just gave his 4 weeks notice, after May he will not be working anymore. DH just had enough and I don't blame him and I fully support his decision. I'm actually surprise it took him this long. He almost quit back in Dec and again in Jan.
2 years ago there were new bunch of upper management that got hired and I guess they were told to get rid of people. 2 years ago their team used to have 12 people in it and now there are only 3 left and 1 of them has been taken to do something else (he is complaining about it but there is not much he can do). Being the team leader a lot of the stuff falls on DH. 2 years ago they used to have a Business Analyst, a couple of Data Managers, few testers and few developers (including DH). They used to have a boss that looked after them but he left in October and still haven't been replaced, he didn't get along with his new boss DB (which now DH has to deal with, he is horrible to say the least). The BA and data managers and some of the developers and testers had been let go over a year ago. The 2 testers that were left quit this year (actually 1 got another job and the other decided to retired early instead).
The other developer has already told DH that she will not renew her employment if they get extended after June. That's if they actually get extended, they say they will but 2 months to go and there hasn't been any actions to show it yet. DH had been lied to few times now and he just can't trust them. DH had to step up a lot especially since his old boss left but they wouldn't acknowledge it.
Couple months ago they finally got approval to hire DH old boss position, the one that left in October. DH wasn't really interested in applying for it but at the same time thought may as well since he has been doing this job for months now and also the lady that said she will be living in June said that she would stay if DH gets the job. But ultimately DH just want them to hire someone so he can just concentrate in doing his role that he was hired to do. Anyway, he got interviewed for it and at the end DB said that this the last interview and that he will find out in the next 48 hours. 2 weeks later still nothing and in the meantime DH found out that they actually interviewed 2 more people after that. So on Friday DH asked him if he could talk to him but he said he is busy and would like to discuss it later on that day he will call DH then. Anyway 4:45 that afternoon DH still haven't heard from him. He tends to do this he just ignored things that he doesn't want to deal with, like not answer emails for weeks. DH contacted him to ask if he could talk to him, he said can we do it on Monday but DH really wanted to deal with it then he didn't want another weekend to pass. Lucky he did because DB was actually away on Monday and Tuesday. DH thinks he likes to delay stuff in a hope that people will just forget about it he has done it few times before to DH. In Dec last year DH emailed him something and he didn't respond to it a month later and actually told DH off for not ringing him about it instead. WTF. Apparently, a lot have got caught out with it were they email him stuff that he wanted but never get a respond and down the line they get told off for not ringing him about it. Things that are important to him cannot just be emailed to him they must contact him via phone but the problem is people don't always know what he consider important. He is in a major power trip. Anyway, he told DH that he didn't get the job which is fair enough apparently other applicants had a lot more managerial experience. DH understands and wanted to know when the new person will be starting? Well apparently he will not be hiring anyone he wants to post the job again through a job agency this time. Another WTF. That means it would take at least another 2 months in the meantime DH still has to deal with everything. No thank you! He has been so stress out about work lately and hasn't been sleeping well from constantly thinking about work, he just can't deal with it anymore. So we decided that he should just resign now even without another job to go to. He can have a rest while looking for another job. A quick calculation we should have enough cash in hand to last for the rest of the year. I will look into it more this weekend.
Our goals will have to change this year but hopefully only for short time.
Change of Plan - DH just quit his job
April 30th, 2015 at 05:53 am
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April 30th, 2015 at 04:05 pm 1430409957
Dh needs to work out any benefits remaining, holiday pay, medical/dental contributions etc.
May 1st, 2015 at 12:51 am 1430441485
We are not sure how unemployment benefit works really, he might have to go to a place called Centrelink here. The last time he was unemployed he wasn't really eligible and that was 10 years ago when we didn't have much assets and have a lot more debt. DH hated going through it that he gave up and we never received any unemployment benefit for a year and a half that he was unemployed. He probably could have argued more about his situation but he just didn't want to deal with it at all at that time. So we lived on our savings (he got a sizable payout at that time), also from my small income from my casual work and we got help from DH's parents.
Yeah he should have about 2 weeks worth of holiday which he will get paid for. We don't do medical/dental contributions here.
May 1st, 2015 at 06:38 am 1430462337
There are eligibility rules for all the types of insurance. If you leave the keys in the ignition, the car running and the doors unlocked your stolen car claim will not be honored for example. The government keeps statistics on claims by each business and their contribution to premiums is affected by the number of staff claims.
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May 1st, 2015 at 01:08 pm 1430485724
They look at your assets (not including your home) in calculating your illegibility for unemployment benefits. We will definitely be looking at getting it when the time comes but I highly doubt we will be able to get it at this time. I guess thing was set up for people that really needs it.
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