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My old company stopped contributing to our 401k even when they were taking the $$ out. The CEO Irma gave us her personal message that they were going to take care of it and that we were doing just fine.
Then we got a surprise video meeting over memorial day. The oh shit moment was everyone was told via the call that we were indefinitely furloughed. I didn't even know that was thing. Unfortunately when you get furloughed like we did, you can't get unemployment since your not terminated, you can't get insurance, and paychecks started to bounce from over a month ago. It was a bad situation. So yeah that was my oh shit situation.
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