Corporate Kate

Out of pure laziness (I have never bothered to go into the bank and cash them in), and because I did not want to pay the taxes, they are still sitting in a fireproof envelope long past their maturity date. But if I was laid off? I would be cashing these in immediately. No sense in having them sitting around if I need all the cash I can get. They are also part of my emergency-fund liquidity plan, a way to make sure I am preserving cash wherever I can in a crisis.

So if layoffs can coincide with quarterly financial reports, will semiannual reporting mean fewer layoffs? If you have been through a mass layoff at a large corporation, you have probably noticed that these cuts land near the end of a fiscal quarter, or right after a disappointing earnings call, or in the weeks before a company has to tell Wall Street how it did.

And I think that was the right choice. Even though I did have all of my ducks in a row financially due to layoff signs, quitting for the sake of quitting wasn’t going to solve all of my issues but instead would create new ones. If anything, going in to work every day was extra motivation I needed to buckle down after work and send out job applications in the hopes that I could get out of that place.