Lynn has worked for the Hyatt for 14 years and had 5 weeks vacation banked. We had plane tickets (bought in January) to fly to L.A. to visit her mom for two weeks in May. We also had a plan to spend a couple weeks with my sister and BIL later this year. That would have eaten up another couple weeks. The other week would have been spread out with a day off here and there (3-day weekends usually --- ie; 1 vacation day and a weekend). Last Friday, Lynn was told by her GM that she needs to take her vacation NOW since business is slow. (she didn't really have an option ... she was TOLD to take vacation) Well crap, that screwed up our plans for May, as we would then have plane tickets, but no vacation time. Ok, it's not a good time to fly right now, so moving our flights up is out ... and we really don't know if it'll be any better in May, so we cancelled our flights and travel plans completely. So, she officially started her vacation on Monday, as "ordered". Wow, on vacation and no place to go or any way to get there.

That brings us to today, day 3 of her 5-week "mandatory" ... ummm, vacation. This afternoon, she receives an email from her GM saying she's now officially "laid off". Ok, we kind'a saw the handwriting on the wall there, but she still has 4-1/2 weeks of vacation coming to her, so that'll give us a little room to come up with a game plan. Wrong! She was informed her company insurance ends as of today .... AND she will lose any vacation time she has not used. WTF????

Can they do that? Anybody know? Those dirty f'n rat-bastards!

Now we're really scrambling. She turned 62 in February and can "retire" on Social Security earlier than planned, but her 401K as well as her IRA (which we've contributed to for 30 years) are both in the toilet! So here she sits with no job, no medical insurance, no retirement income and the dirty thievin' cock-suckers have "stolen" more than a month of pay from her (IMO).