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Excuse me, is it really the norm to just cut off people who are being let go, without the opportunity to say goodbye to their former colleagues? In my country i

by xyzal 4y ago

Excuse me, is it really the norm to just cut off people who are being let go, without the opportunity to say goodbye to their former colleagues? In my country it is 2 months notice by law...

reaperducer 4y ago
is it really the norm to just cut off people who are being let go, without the opportunity to say goodbye to their former colleagues? It varies from company to company, and often based on your relationship with your boss and coworkers, or just how the higher managers want to handle things. In my country There are 200+ countries, and 200+ ways of doing things. Not everywhere is like home.
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joshmanders 4y ago
Majority of the US is at-will employment, meaning you can be let go or quit at any time with no need to give notice. The only difference is we were conditioned to believe that we as employees to "not burn bridges" must give at least 2 weeks notice, but companies never give notice to you, just wake up one day and you're no longer employed.
WWLink 4y ago
Yes, it's the norm. Typically they'll call a mandatory all-hands meeting (or a mandatory meeting with the laid off people with HR or something), and then when that meeting begins they deactivate those people's access to everything. They announce the layoffs and hand out final paychecks, and have security guards escort people out of the building. For people working from home, depends on the company - most will send a message to the laid off person's personal email and immediately lock the person out. If they don't have a personal email on record they'll just lock them out and send a letter in the mail or something. Yep, pretty shitty behavior. They do it to keep people from retaliating or organizing a protest or starting drama or whatever. To me the really weird thing is the way people talk so positively about getting fired on linkedin.

by xyzal 4y ago

Excuse me, is it really the norm to just cut off people who are being let go, without the opportunity to say goodbye to their former colleagues? In my country it is 2 months notice by law...

reaperducer 4y ago

is it really the norm to just cut off people who are being let go, without the opportunity to say goodbye to their former colleagues? It varies from company to company, and often based on your relationship with your boss and coworkers, or just how the higher managers want to handle things. In my country There are 200+ countries, and 200+ ways of doing things. Not everywhere is like home.

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joshmanders 4y ago

Majority of the US is at-will employment, meaning you can be let go or quit at any time with no need to give notice. The only difference is we were conditioned to believe that we as employees to "not burn bridges" must give at least 2 weeks notice, but companies never give notice to you, just wake up one day and you're no longer employed.

WWLink 4y ago

Yes, it's the norm. Typically they'll call a mandatory all-hands meeting (or a mandatory meeting with the laid off people with HR or something), and then when that meeting begins they deactivate those people's access to everything. They announce the layoffs and hand out final paychecks, and have security guards escort people out of the building. For people working from home, depends on the company - most will send a message to the laid off person's personal email and immediately lock the person out. If they don't have a personal email on record they'll just lock them out and send a letter in the mail or something. Yep, pretty shitty behavior. They do it to keep people from retaliating or organizing a protest or starting drama or whatever. To me the really weird thing is the way people talk so positively about getting fired on linkedin.