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A lot of companies will also say if the former employee is eligible to be employed there again. A negative on that plus a January separation date won't look goo
by doktorhladnjak 5y ago
A lot of companies will also say if the former employee is eligible to be employed there again. A negative on that plus a January separation date won't look good for those folks.
- tablespoon 5y ago> A lot of companies will also say if the former employee is eligible to be employed there again. A negative on that plus a January separation date won't look good for those folks. I suppose that may mean something if you're playing detective with a former Blizzard employee's resume, but I'd be cautious in reading too much into "if the former employee is eligible to be employed there again" generally. I know of a company where HR policy is that all involuntary separations are ineligible for rehire, including things like downsizing layoffs.
- awb 5y agoWhy would you be ineligible for rehire after a downsizing?
- barkingcat 5y agoYou'd be surprised at the kinds of hr policies that makes their own sense, but has no common sense. Most likely to avoid someone returning on false pretenses to retaliate against being downsized in the firstplace.
- Gibbon1 5y agoYeah that's the sort of policy a sociopath would think is a good idea.
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- nohr 5y agoBecause someone made a shitty policy.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoPresumably for the same reason that, after sleeping with your friend's wife, you wouldn't try to make friends again.
- ketralnis 5y agoMaybe because when downsizing you pick the lowest performers that for whatever reason you haven't already fired
- tablespoon 5y ago> Maybe because when downsizing you pick the lowest performers that for whatever reason you haven't already fired "Lowest performers" doesn't imply bad performers (e.g. a strong team of A & B players). Also downsizing can happen in different ways. For instance: "we're closing this whole site and laying off everyone who works there," or "this project failed [due to bad leadership], so we're laying off the whole team."
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThere was an interesting comment on HN a while ago to the effect that "I have personally seen one team laid off and another kept, while everyone agreed that the laid-off team was performing better, because the rent on the building they were in was more expensive".