I'm thinking my days here are number, and I already have a replacement job lined up. I just don't want to leave before I know for sure if severance is or isn't an option. My question is, will Honeywell know if I start working just days after being laid off? Will that affect my severance - if I get one - in any way?
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If Honeywell doesn't have enough staff to make their product and service their customer properly,...... What makes you think they have enough HR staff to track all the people they are shoving out the door?
Look after yourself, and get out, and take all you can.
You may or may not get unemployment right after you are laid off and getting severance ( depends on your state's rules). DEFINITELY file for it regardless!
Use caution and read any severance agreement you are offered very carefully. Such an agreement, to which you must agree to get any severance, is likely to contain a couple of relevant clauses:
1) That you will inform the company if you get another job, or even the OFFER of another job, during your severance duration, at which time your severance will cease.
2) That if you are at any time found to be in violation of the severance agreement, the company has the ability to "clawback" (their term) some amount of the severance they have paid you.
So if your severance agreement has clauses like these, and you agree to it, and do not follow it, and the company finds out about that, it could come back to bite you, and you could be hard pressed to defend it since you had agreed to those terms.
So keep your eyes open and be sure to read anything you sign, then make your choice.
Honeywell is the type of job where, you know you're getting mediocre pay and respect, on top of that having someone breath down your throat to meet whichever metrics management decides to stick it to you with. So all you'd do in return is, do your work within 40 hours and no more, take your vacation, and enjoy life.
Do your honeywell job and get paid.
Take severance the moment it is offered. Realize that it is not a sure thing.
The Coon Rapids folks are not getting anything I understand.
Work any other job you want. None of Honeywell's business.
Quit = no severance
Laid off = severance and eligible for unemployment. Do NOT let them convince you to collect unemployment after your severance runs out. It's yours. Take it. The company and all of your employers have paid unemployment tax for you the entire time you have worked. It's available within 2 weeks of being let go (if you file immediately, or 2 weeks after you file...Do Not Wait!!!). Many are convinced to forgo unemployment and find work within their severance period and never tap into unemployment. Big mistake. Honeywells tax rate depends highly on how much the Feds have paid out to the company's laid off workers. Do not let the company convince you to start after your severance to "level out your income", as more often than not, it significantly reduces the Federal pay out and thus, artificially lowers Honeywell's rate.
Give Honeywell the same respect they give you.