Things have gotten worse

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Two Fridays ago, my daughter was laid off, after only being back to work for two weeks. They offered her a month's severance, so we thought we'd be good to go once unemployment kicked in. Midway through the next week, the old job sent an email telling her she needed to sign a non-compete agreement that had a copy/pasted paragraph added saying she had to agree to not sue them for having laid her off because of her injury. Sound suspicious? You better believe it!! She was one of three people laid off, but her boss was only told about the other two. She was a surprise. He was angry, updated his resume and began looking for another job. Plus, it took half a day to get them to give her access to the database after she returned to work. It's all TOO coincidental. Now, today she learned that she isn't getting unemployment because she worked a second job the first week she didn't work at the old job. And, they won't give her severance until she signs the non-compete. We have NO money at all because once all the current bills were paid, nothing was left. No money for rent or utilities. Or gas in her car. Or car insurance. We had no idea that a second job would basically erase the unemployment covering the loss of the first job. Basically, we may be homeless in a month.