Originally Posted by cattle
Did you pay for these or your previous employer? If your previous employer paid for them and you can't return them (which is what I am assuming is the case) then I would fly the segments and earn the q-miles with back to back flights in one day until you use them up

Not quite. Until recently I used to freelance and have paid for the pass myself (i.e. my corp paid for the pass). I have now crossed over to the dark side of salaried employment... still shell-shocked, as we speak.