text: you know we 've got people here that really you know need to be working and so that we had just you know it was this way we didn 't have to layoff an active person and we 'd just let you go and it took me about a year of arguing i said you know you 've got to put this in writing to me and because until they put it in writing i couldn 't get my insurance benefits and i couldn 't get my uh termination benefits either
  
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  I was reassured that they spelled out my benefits in writing .