Being Laid Off

This is my first experience being laid off. I have quit, I have been fired, but I have never been laid off.

I gave myself a week to wallow in self-pity and denial, but I now have to be productive. So I'm starting this journal to amuse myself, hopefully others, and chronicle the growing number of employees severed from employment with a kick in the ass.

I'm a journalist, or former journalist, however you want to phrase it and I was laid off from my media company in California. I'm not identifying who exactly because it's not important. It could be any media company since almost all of them have decided those who create the product are explendable while executives, who simply draw seven figure salaries selling that work, do not get laid off ... and if they do, severance is a lot more than two week's pay. Another reason not to mention them is that it's the past. The future is now what matters.

I have a five-page paper to sign that basically says I promise not to sue said company to get my $1,512 check and 12 weeks of insurance coverage. I have until August to sign it. Should I? I don't know.