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  • I have bought and sold over a dozen houses, my credit has been shit and I repaired it, and I have worked for a number of insurance related tech companies that evaluate your credit. What is considered when evaluating your viability as a borrower is your debt exposure. Credit cards are pre-approved debt. If you have $100,000 of combined available credit on credit cards, then you might as well be $100,000 in debt. This is especially true if you got these cards while you were in a higher income bracket than you are currently. If you had a nice job paying $125k but had to move and now make $95k, then those cards might represent a debt burden you might no longer be able to carry. That is a huge ding when being evaluated for credit.

    EDIT: By the way, most people also believe that only the outstanding balance is counted. That is true for loans but not for credit cards.















  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldOut of Office
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    Salaried employees get paid by default. Someone has to notify accounting to not pay the person, not the other way around. This has been the process for every company I have ever worked for, or owned. I am not saying that what you are saying isn’t true, I am saying that it is fucked up.





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    Severance, you’re right. Unemployment is likely still on the table depending on the state. In Texas, the person can file for unemployment. The company can challenge saying they were a no show but the employee can argue that it isn’t true. It is just easier to allow unemployment to just cover it.

    EDIT: I once had a guy work for two week as a 1099 and he still filed for unemployment. That got denied because he was never an actual employee, but had we not noticed the claim in the mail, he would have gotten paid.