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How did they make you sign something, in a situation where you were resigning (however they internally scored it)??
by hga 11y ago
How did they make you sign something, in a situation where you were resigning (however they internally scored it)??
- potatolicious 11y agoI've had one former employer (not Amazon) threaten to withhold my remaining paychecks if I did not sign a non-disparagement agreement upon leaving - this was on my last day. Of course, wildly illegal - but also a verbal conversation (deliberately so of course) so no hard proof it ever happened. I told the HR person that's illegal, refused to sign any exit paperwork whatsoever, and left the building. Of course, my remaining paychecks arrived without trouble, LOL. I can imagine someone less savvy or newer to the industry to easily be fooled.
- hga 11y agoYeah, that trick doesn't work for going concerns. It wasn't threatened before the 13 senior people at a startup I worked at faxed in a group resignation to the devil investors that had taken over the company, but they sure did fight trying to not give us our back pay, or all of it. But the state, Virginia in this case, takes a very dim view of such stunts (hey, on top of everything else they lose tax money), has an office staffed with no-humor people who've seen it all, and all we had to do was to wait and accept only the full amount.
- late2part 11y agoAlmost certainly they offered him a large financial inducement in exchange for A/ signing it and B/ agreeing never to say disparaging things about Amazon.
- hga 11y agoI'd use the word "induced" rather than "made" in that context. Maybe offered to forgive relocation expenses he'd otherwise be on the hook for?