Losing My Job

My leave of absence ran into a bit of a hitch a couple of weeks ago. My vacation ran out in late June, and someone in HR put my paperwork in the wrong pile. Instead of going on a leave of absence I went on a permanent leave (e.g. pink slip time). I didn't notice until I tried to connect to the company network...and was summarily denied. Things were fixed pretty quickly, but the fake termination ended up cancelling our insurance for a couple of days and it was a bit of a pain getting the insurance company and my company on the same page to get us reinsured.

I had a feeling something like this might happen, but it sure was a surprise when it did.