# Is this an OK email to send to my team lead at work or should I revise it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-ok-email-to-send-to-my-team-lead-at-work-or-should-i-revise-it/913475 "2020-06-28T00:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-ok-email-to-send-to-my-team-lead-at-work-or-should-i-revise-it/913475/41 "2020-08-01T23:09:08Z")
Generally, there are way more claims that normal and the systems in all States are being stressed. Some of them are much worse than others and I have no idea about NJ specifically. The good news is that when you do get paid, you’ll get back paid for every week for which you are entitled money. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-ok-email-to-send-to-my-team-lead-at-work-or-should-i-revise-it/913475/42 "2020-08-03T07:49:48Z")
I don’t check the mail for a couple of days, today I get a mail with my benefit. In a week I get this. Wow. This is the best thing that has happened to my in a while, even if I did not get unemployment. I got a little money in the bank It is settled, I am going to pack everything I can into a rental SUV and move back to my hometown in Virginia, live with my parents for a couple of months. Then decide if I want to get an apartment there, or come back here. I am so happy. This month, I don’t have to do ANYTHING except feed myself and my cat and look for a job. And end of month, go back to spend some time with my parents, which I usually do for a week at Christmas. And which I had thought about doing anyway, moving there permantely, although I thought I would be working remotely doing the job I was doing until last week. But I would have never done it, I hate change, I would have stayed here and renewed my lease. If there was ever a time to lose a job, it is this. I get the news just about the time I have paid my rent on the last month on my apartment in NJ . Lease is up end of August. And my brothers here were planning to go down for a visit end of this month anyway. I don’t even have to pay movers, other than the SUV rental cost. Even if I were to get a great job offer here in the next couple of weeks, and I have many contacts and references here and I have sent out applications, I would not take it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-ok-email-to-send-to-my-team-lead-at-work-or-should-i-revise-it/913475/43 "2020-08-03T14:28:13Z")
Will your unemployment continue if you’re not in-state or available for work? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-ok-email-to-send-to-my-team-lead-at-work-or-should-i-revise-it/913475/44 "2020-08-03T17:42:29Z")
**Mike\_Mabes** - I’m sorry to hear about your job. Do make sure about the benefits transfer before you officially make the move to VA. StG ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-ok-email-to-send-to-my-team-lead-at-work-or-should-i-revise-it/913475/45 "2020-08-06T18:29:17Z")
I got something in the mail a couple of days ago which I thought was an approval but now I am not so sure. It listed the benefit amount and said I qualifed based on money made over the past couple of years. But it did not say they have talked to HR nor when I would get the first check. And there were no instuctions, like in RI a few years ago I had to go to a website and list jobs I had applied for. I think the requirement was 5 a week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-ok-email-to-send-to-my-team-lead-at-work-or-should-i-revise-it/913475.md?page=2)