I’d be surprised if an employer would let a former employee continue using their old voicemail and email accounts for security reasons. As an employer, I’d want to be fair but gone means gone.

“Negotiate termination packages: Employers welcome the chance to deal directly with a just-dismissed employee, unsophisticated in the strategy of negotiating reasonable severance. While employees are seldom deprived of the opportunity to meet with a lawyer – and often encouraged to avail themselves of a lawyer – not all heed this advice. My initial demand letters on behalf of dismissed employees usually seek five or six concessions. Practising exclusively in this area, I customarily find that three or four of those items were unknown to the employee, prior to my involvement.”

Have just stumbled across your blog and am enjoying it!