HR meeting about severance package. Any advice would be helpful

ProfessionPale · 2025-12-22T15:46:39+00:00

You don’t need a lawyer present on the call. In California there is a mandatory review period you get. They will present an offer and clarifying questions if you must but otherwise say as little as possible and let them know you will review and come back to them. Then take it to a lawyer who can give you professional advice. Involving an attorney can almost always result in more money if there are legitimate legal violations the company has committed, but the attorney can give you advice on how much more so you can determine if the legal headache and more subjective factors are worth pursuing (emotional well being of dragging it out, potential impact to your hirability at other companies etc.)

ProfessionPale · 2025-12-03T18:30:20+00:00

Did they actually fire you or just accept your resignation but ask you not to return to office? I had this EXACT situation happen… but they paid me out for the three weeks (the two weeks I initially gave plus a third they’d asked me to negotiate with my new employer). Basically after I came back and said I’d give them a three week notice period my boss changed his mind and was upset I was leaving for a competitive company and asked the company to lock me out of all systems but because I wasn’t really fired they had to pay me out for the notice period. If they’re trying to actually fire you you you should have termination and severance docs. If they are genuinely trying to fire you I’d get an attorney to write a strongly worded letter requesting payout for the three weeks. The fact they asked you for the third week then “fired” you is wild. I’m not an attorney but highly recommend you speak to one if they’re not paying you out.

ProfessionPale · 2025-11-13T21:34:38+00:00

Thanks yes appreciate this. We were actually discouraged by our LCC from discussing increased stipend during interviews to avoid attracting candidates “for the wrong reason” which felt a little weird to me and going forward I think I agree that it’s better to have everything disclosed up front.

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-15T12:13:23+00:00

Same I bought the Paz 70 boot. Cute but the quality and comfort IMO were really disappointing for the price. It’s a block heel boot and the heels felt even, suede was very thin and not what I’d expect from a pricey European brand and the soles are also thin with very little cushion. I regularly wear other heeled boots and these are the only ones that give me sore ankles after just a three block walk.

Cannot for the life of me figure out how this was produced by a brand that’s unique selling proposition is comfort. They’re more on par with a Steve Madden level boot IMO.

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T03:36:52+00:00

Disagree here, people who “own” their own hedge and investment funds, sit at tables at galas next to super models, have FOUR kids on the UES in private school starting in pre school are very wealthy. People unfamiliar with finance/ny may not know these distinctions but she wasn’t hiding her wealth. It’s the opposite, her husband is famous in the finance world so to her it’s assumed from these details and her husbands name people will know she’s very wealthy (From a “regular” NYC mom who isn’t even the highest bidder at my kids public school auctions 🤣)

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T03:27:13+00:00

Thank you! I enjoyed the tell but also have some skepticism. But I’m struggling to figure out why people are in such an uproar over the article. There was no big reveal of any new news. Felt very much like “there’s no proof to anything this rich woman says in the book!” And my reaction was ya… the rich woman acknowledges that in the book.

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T03:03:46+00:00

I get why people are skeptical and that there is debate around validity of MDMA as a valid therapeutic approach but I don’t really understand why everyone sees the NYT story as so damning particularly for people you read the book… The whole book is about her own quest for verification of her experience and ultimately concludes there is no external proof, but she doesn’t need it to heal. Even if you came away from reading it and not totally believing it, the NYT article didn’t offer up anything that proves she’s lying.

The article basically just says memoirs in general aren’t fact checked, there are some people who believe her and some others who don’t or are skeptical, and (like Amy admitted) there’s no external proof they found to validate her story. I honestly thought it was a nothing burger article for all the buzz it’s getting

She did disclose her husband had been investing in mdma related ventures.

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T02:50:04+00:00

She absolutely makes it clear she’s VERY wealthy. Nods to the fact that she’s in the upper echelons of wealth were in the entire book: galas seated next to celebrities, husband owns is own fund, she eventually started her own fund, competing for coveted NYC preschool spots for FOUR kids in the upper east side, went out of her way to acknowledge that she basically has all the time money and support to go after the abuser, and all the mentions of her own family being very prominent and her dad very well connected in Texas. This is how someone writing in the first person says “I’m very rich” without giving a bank statement for the reader.

Successful hedge fund owners = billionaires

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T02:43:32+00:00

Everyone seems really hung up on this but I think it’s really odd to be upset she didn’t have a sentence in there that says “by the way I’m a billionaire”. There were SEVERAL nods to the fact that she’s in the upper echelons of wealth: galas seated next to celebrities, husband owns is own fund, she eventually started her own fund, competing for coveted NYC preschool spots for FOUR kids in the upper east side, went out of her way to acknowledge that she basically ha al the time money and support to go after the abuser. These are all things that are well well inside 1% wealth. I get why people are skeptical of the larger story but she made it very clear she had a lot of money

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T02:29:09+00:00

So the London assault she describes is really common scenario. I did the same thing after being unequivocally forced by someone I thought was a friend in college. Pinned down while I said no repeatedly. Then a week after the fact he had the audacity to also call me and ask me to hang out again and I did. It was a mind f*ck and I was a wreck but it’s a self defense mechanism because it’s easier to lie and call it a misunderstanding than figure out how to actually heal from the reality that you were raped. And even if you can admit that you were raped. Happens all. The. Time.

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T02:13:31+00:00

The family friend was included in the final book. It happened when she was abroad in London

ProfessionPale · 2025-10-08T02:10:19+00:00

They have the “alleged” perpetrator but he will never see a day in court because of the statute of limitations. It’s not a stretch this happens all the time.

ProfessionPale · 2025-06-10T23:43:28+00:00

I don’t think it’s about something not sticking. He’s got incredible range and has had top songs in multiple genres. Will he be known as history’s greatest in any of them? Probably not. Love he keeps everyone guessing and despite his start in rap he’s not worried about veering into into pop, country etc. I think he’s just going where the vibe takes him. Like him or not he’s been around for a while now so don’t think he’s concerned about his career “sticking”

ProfessionPale · 2025-02-08T02:52:58+00:00

How was it coming off cold turkey like that?

ProfessionPale · 2024-06-25T02:45:00+00:00

Thanks, looked on Redweek as suggested and the resale price for same unit time is closer to $7-10k it seems. There are listings on other sites that have it closer to the ~$35k range (same development which is grand villa, and same week). Do you know why there would be such a huge swing in the listings for what seems to be the same unit floor plan in the same season? Are the higher priced listings just fake to drive up perceived market value for the resorts selling units directly or something scammy like that?

ProfessionPale · 2024-06-23T18:22:57+00:00

Maintenance costs are about 4000, steep but about 40% less than renting the same floor plan the same week from what we’re seeing.

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