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The painful thing is being asked to stick around for a few more weeks or sometimes a couple months for a transition. That sucks, because you join daily standup,
by yeukhon 9y ago
The painful thing is being asked to stick around for a few more weeks or sometimes a couple months for a transition. That sucks, because you join daily standup, have tickets in your queue, but you have to pretend you care... Go to meetings where people just want to suck out everything from you, including your soul, so they can replace you. That's a nightmare, but many don't have a choice because they need to pay bills.
- notyourday 9y agoSerious question: why would you not laugh and say "Yeah, no"?
- CommieBobDole 9y agoBecause the company is usually offering some sort of severance, which will be withheld if you say "Yeah, no". They're not saying, "you're laid off, effective today, but you have to stay for another two months", they're saying "you're laid off in two months, and your job duties are now to train your replacement". Saying "no" means resigning.
- s73ver_ 9y agoI'm not sure, but wouldn't saying no also mean forfeiting any unemployment you might otherwise be entitled to?
- CommieBobDole 9y agoMost likely, yes - depends on the state, of course, but generally you don't collect unemployment for a voluntary resignation.
- notyourday 9y agoOk, so if that's the case I'm seriously having a problem understanding this dilemma: if ($money_to_be_received > $aggravation ) { remain_here(); happy_whistles(); } else { say_bye_bye_suzi(); }
- s73ver_ 9y agoCause then you don't get your severance. And few people are prepared to lose their job out of the blue like that.
- rconti 9y agoBecause you get a runway to find a new job, you get a paycheck while you're on that runway, AND you get a severance at the end of the rainbow to tide you over if you haven't found that new job (or a killer bump to the savings/nice vacation/whatever) if you HAVE found a new job by the end. In addition to your PTO payout, or whatever. Else if you flip your desk and walk out, you get your PTO and now you have no job.
- pascalxus 9y agobut, you'd have great work life balance, right? no pressure. low workload, etc.
- yeukhon 9y agoNo. Imagine a manager... you still have to maintain the team until you are gone. Otherwise you will get more angry emails and more angry calls from the upper management despite you are "fired". It's a torture, because you know your work isn't going to make big change anyway. If you like your team, you are there just to protect them...but that sucks... what a paradox.