Denied

They denied my request for them to re-evaluate the severance offer that was made to me. I’ve decided I’ll just post the letter I sent them. I have changed the name of the company to the title of my blog to protect their name and mine for legal reasons and omitted the names of my former coworkers. They were all with Potential for less time than I was and received more severance than I did. My layoff was personal. I was singled out. And the severance offer was insulting. I have removed my former Director from my Facebook friends list. I won't associate myself with lowly human beings as him. I feel sorry my friends swho till have to work under him and that worthless no-nothing CFO pretending like she's running the place. It's probably pretty obvious how mad I am.

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To whom it may concern,

I'd like to respectfully request that the severance offer made in the Separation Agreement be re-evaluated. My tenure with the company was long and beneficial. I believe I always presented myself as a dedicated employee in my specific duties, to the company as a whole, and to Potential's business partners. I ask the following to be taken into consideration in determining my severance package.

I was officially hired in May of 2007 after starting as a temp in January 2007. This was nearly 5 years of employment. Having no finance background, I embraced the duties given to me and excelled in performance of those duties. This was rewarded with a gradual increase in responsibilities and eventually elevation to the role of the AP Manager.

Through those 5 years I consistently worked beyond the standard hours asked of me and beyond company policy standards. I was always willing to stay late when asked, and even when I was not asked, in order to perform the necessary functions of my job, and often had to take on the responsibilities of other positions. I was most often the first person to walk in the door in the morning, and often one of the last to leave in the evening. In March 2010, Potential took on board the additional workload of XXX. While the additional workload was substantial the AP Department incorporated these tasks quickly despite being provided no additional support staff.

When the old Controller position was released from doing the Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, and Xxxxx responsibilities in February 2011 that additional workload fell to me. My team helped and eventually Xxxx would assume the Xxxxxx Xxxxxx responsibilities, but the additional work: processing invoices, addressing discrepancies, emails from the vendors and account teams, making payments, etc. was substantial for all these SBUs.

In June 2011, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx was let go and I was again given the unassigned responsibilities. I informed the Director that Xxxxxxxx has the largest volume of invoices to enter in the department and was hence a full-time position. The work was overbearing. The emails alone from X's vendors delegated hours of my time and there were days when I could do little else, having to push my own responsibilities off to address the higher priority problems. I was told there would be a replacement within 30 days, and to do the work for that time but a replacement was never hired in the five months since. This put a strain on my ability to be able to run the department as effectively as had been before.

Earlier this year, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxx were released and portions of their daily job functions were put onto the AP Department: processing and cutting checks for the rest of the SBUs similar to the above and overhead payments, respectively. My team was always willing to help, but as the manager of the department, ultimately the greater share of the additional responsibilities fell to me once again.

I understand my termination has no bearing on my work performance, but is an unfortunate result of a restructuring of the department. I believe the above record is strongly representative of my dedication to Xxxxxxx through the years and respectfully request a severance package to include 6 months of full salary and health insurance coverage for the same term.

Please reply to this email address, or I can be reached by phone at (000) 000-0000.

Regards,
Xxxxx Xxxx
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