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Should I try to get severance from my current employer before I leave?
I'm in the seattle area working for a large tech company A (<i>woo mysterious</i>). I have an offer from another large tech company B in the Bay Area. Would it be wise to ask A for severance instead of just giving my 2 weeks notice? Is it a "bridge burning" move, or just a strategic play that's acceptable? I accept I'll never be able to come back to A, and I'm totally ok with that. Will it blackball me with B in anyway? I.e. HR talking to each other etc? Do people usually do this? I don't really need the money, but it's more of a statement to my current boss. May not be worth it, but I wanted to ask for people's experiences.
- zoowar 14y agoYou're leaving them, they owe you nothing.
- SEAthrowway 14y agoThat's one way to look at it. That was my initial line of thinking, but my career trajectory has suffered because I stayed and believed certain promises from management. It's on me that I trusted them without doing my own fact finding, but they also bear a portion of the responsibility. Maybe I'm just bitter.
- antidoh 14y agoJust move on. You're assuming too much significance in where you are, will be or have been in your life. The universe, and most relevantly Company A, doesn't care. We are merely instances of fungible transactions in the retail employment economy, notwithstanding the mutual stroking we and our employers give each other. You'll probably enjoy the extra freedom from not giving this any more attention.
- SEAthrowway 14y agoYou're right. Why do I feel so bitter about some shitty company that I'm leaving and never coming back to anyway =/ Fuckin' childhood dreams.