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Originally Posted by LiveThruFear
@seesaw sounds like you worked in the service industry at a restaurant?? I still have nightmares from waiting tables and all the stupid employee popularity contests!! That’s probably just something you should count your blessings as you no longer have to go back to that environment and let it go moving on to bigger, better, brighter opportunities. It’s not re-traumatizing unless you make it happen to yourself by letting your thoughts dwell on the past instead of here & now. Forgive & draw unemployment because that’s the same thing without paying a lawyer $5-10 grand.
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I would also like to point out that unemployment only lasts for 12 weeks and it only pays out $3500 at the MAX, which I was getting. So no, it's not comparable at all to the settlement I will most likely get on my lawsuit, and no, my lawyer doesn't cost $5k to $10k. He's paid on contingency, which means he gets a set percentage of what we get through the court or settlement. So he's very motivated to win. And the fraction of money I got from unemployment was nowhere near my salary or enough to pay my bills. There seems to be some kind of misconception thatt unemployment is more than a pittance or that it lasts forever. It doesn't.
Also, the jobs in my industry are very competitive and I'm at the director-level, typically reporting directly to the CEO, so those jobs take at last six months to land. So 12 weeks of unemployment is nothing. And when I have a very viable lawsuit with direct proof of discrimination, I'm going to pursue it.
But regardless, the question in my original post was is it possible for a toxic/hostile work environment to retraumatize you. Which is not what your response addresses.
Thanks,
Seesaw