Urban: Received $50,000 corporate retention bonus before leaving to pursue Whole30
Melissa Urban · Whole30: Melissa Urban · Apr 1, 2024 · at 36:32
Melissa Urban, co-founder of Whole30, discusses quitting her corporate insurance job in 2010 to pursue Whole30 full-time.
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“At this point in the company, they had done a round of layoffs, but offered several employees retention bonuses if they agreed to stay for the next three years. And so I signed on for that retention bonus, which was great. My job was secure, and I knew that at the end of three years, I'd have this, like, little lump sum of cash coming in. And my retention bonus was coming up in April, 2010. That was the three-year period Where, whether I stayed or left, I would get that 50,000 dollar bonus in my bank account”
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