mellowtigger | potential employment trouble (Reply)

There are so many issues I wanted to talk about today. I also wanted to talk about a Border Patrol helicopter spending about 2 hours overhead today. This is my Reddit post about it, but other people posted elsewhere too. Those topics all got pre-empted this afternoon by an email from our boss. In it, they explained that those of us whose home states were named in this update to our employer's remote-work policy will get to stay in our current jobs. They are still trying to get an answer if it would affect any potential promotions within our team.

The latest version of the remote-work policy is linked below, and it names U.S. states from which nobody will be hired for either full-time or part-time work. It's about half of the USA. These United States seem increasingly not to be.
https://hr.psu.edu/more/flexible-work-arrangements/out-of-state-notice

Minnesota is currently listed as prohibited for part-time work. I work full-time. It was also listed that way in the oldest archive copy of that statement, from after I was hired as a remote worker. Other people in my team are full-timers in now-prohibited states. Since I don't know why any of the states are on this prohibition list, I can't guess if I might someday be on the full-time prohibition list too. Or... if someday they might just suddenly decide that we can't stay employed either.

This kind of job insecurity wasn't on my Doom Bingo 2025 card. I need to save as much money as I can for any potential future unemployment. Unfortunately, I also have house repair/replacement projects that need to happen. We live in interesting times.