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Why would someone who wants you out help you find another job? What kind of mess is in the head of a person that thinks everyone owes them a helping hand?

• jkrems 8y ago
  Because you will be talking to other people, including the ones you have worked with and built a relationship with inside of the company. And the company has an interest in being seen as a viable place to work for others. So making sure that ex-employees are being taken care of (to a certain degree) is in the company's best interest.
  • algaeontoast 8y ago
    This is a ridiculously backwards and privileged / entitled position... Your employment / what you need money for is your problem, not your superior's...
    • rocketpastsix 8y ago
      To a degree sure. But at some point, if NPM continues to do this, they will get known as a less than great place to work. And if you get that type of name, it will be harder and harder to get quality talent to work there. If NPM/managers can help out, it gives them some goodwill.
      • algaeontoast 8y ago
        I sympathize with your point, however, in any case complaining about your manager / prior employer not doing this will label you as a whiner. Nobody likes whiners / being one is without a doubt a compromising position for future employment (i.e. knowing it's likely that if they hire you, you'll just complain about anything you don't like abt the company on twitter etc)
• f1l3m0t 8y ago
  Progressives that can't own up to anything or take responsibility — It's always the fault of someone else
  • tom_ 8y ago
    Well I'll own up to thinking that this ain't a great comment that you've written here?
    • f1l3m0t 8y ago
      Sure
• hsk823 8y ago
  Because it's in the end a small industry and community of people who specialize in the same things as you do, and burning bridges is never a good move.
• apocalyptic0n3 8y ago
  It's at least somewhat typical in mass-layoff situations where the problem is business-related (i.e. not enough money or work) and not individual related (i.e. performance or personality). We had a round of layoffs at the Fortune 200 auto lab I was working at close to a decade ago and everyone that was laid off was offered contract agency placement (which guaranteed a job within, I believe, 1 month) and most were offered interviews at the Big 3 and a few smaller shops in the area. Most of the 30 or so that were laid off at our plant went maybe a week without work (which their severance more than covered). I haven't seen it in the smaller companies I have worked for, but then again a 30 person layoff would be every single employee at those companies so they don't typically happen.
• algaeontoast 8y ago
  Yeah, I've never really understood this position. It's a ridiculously childish and entitled line of logic to have IMO. I find it analogous to people who work for Amazon who whined about "not knowing I had to give my signing bonus back if I left before a year" after leaving because they didn't like the job after a few months... (come on, parts of being an adult is reading the employment contract that clearly states you can't keep your signing bonus if you leave before the first year...)
• dredmorbius 8y ago
  Small world principle. Hang around a while. Tables turn.