In my experience if an employees “separation” paperwork is not done to the letter, the severance check will be delayed. If everything is done properly, by both the employee & the manager, it’s less than 6 weeks- closer to 4. You will be surprised at the scope of the documentation, but hey AT&T does know how to cover their butt. It’s probably the 1 and only time you will have full disclosure from this company. You feel like Boy Bye! Also in my experience only 1 out 20 managers know how to do the exit paperwork- after all they seem to believe it doesn’t concern them, and you know where that bunny trail goes. My advice is if you want that check, stand your ground and demand you both sit down together and go through your exit paperwork. If your manager won’t do it, doesn’t know how do it or doesn’t care to do it, go up the chain and demand it be done by your bosses boss.
Or else two months later you will be looking for your check and calling HR, but they won’t know anything because all that paperwork is part of a huge different department. For each HR onboarding specialist there is a opposite HR separation specialist. And yes there are ALWAYS lay offs going on, so it’s a huge department and they are busy.
Thought this was some good advice by @W7Bh4cI-1tvs . It’s much better to double-check that everything is done correctly and demand to go through the paperwork with your manager than to have the severance check not arrive in such a delicate time.