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So what. If they decide to fire you before the effective date of your resignation, you're eligible for unemployment benefits and/or the severance package. I'v

by cmccabe 14y ago

So what. If they decide to fire you before the effective date of your resignation, you're eligible for unemployment benefits and/or the severance package. I've known a few people who knew that layoffs were coming, but chose to stay anyway, simply because they wanted the severance payout and were confident they could find a new job relatively quickly. Financially, you usually come out ahead, although you now have to admit that you have been fired in the past. (Interestingly, layoffs are legally distinct from firings.) But if you already have a new job lined up, I don't think it's that important. Looking at the bigger picture, if they weren't willing to keep you on for your last two weeks, either they saw you as not that important or useful at the company, or the company is in serious financial trouble. Either way, you're probably better off forgetting about that company and enjoying your extra two weeks.

nmcfarl 14y ago
There is another common reason companies send people home as soon as they resign: security. These company consider all dissatisfied employees as security risks, and resigning clearly means you are dissatisfied, so they have policies saying upon resignation you'll be escorted from the building. (Usually, to keep it legal, on a 2 week vacation.) This is not too uncommon in financial services. I consider this flawed reasoning, but the people I've known who where hit by it considered it a nice bonus vacation...
rprasad 14y ago
Being fired generally means you were terminated for cause. Being laid off generally means you were terminated for business reasons.
danielweber 14y ago
I think this may vary by state. A friend gave 2-weeks notice and was fired immediately (from a non-tech-sector job) and said that, according to the state, he wasn't eligible for unemployment, because he had resigned. I was unwilling to dig through the laws enough to find out for sure. Until he told me this, my understanding was the same as yours.
- cmccabe 14y ago
  I think this may vary by state. A friend gave 2-weeks notice and was fired immediately (from a non-tech-sector job) and said that, according to the state, he wasn't eligible for unemployment, because he had resigned. Probably there was some kind of paperwork that the office had to file to make him eligible, which it didn't occur to them to do in this case. I'm willing to bet that its something they should have done, although I could definitely be wrong.
  - danielweber 14y ago
    It seems that unemployment shouldn't function that way: the employer has to actively deny the UI claim, not have to do work to make their own UI premiums go up. Said friend may also suffer from social anxiety and just not want to talk to the UI office. By all means, anyone in this situation should call your state's unemployment office to find out. The worst they can do is say no. The one time I got laid off I was amazed at how nice they were.

by cmccabe 14y ago

nmcfarl 14y ago

There is another common reason companies send people home as soon as they resign: security. These company consider all dissatisfied employees as security risks, and resigning clearly means you are dissatisfied, so they have policies saying upon resignation you'll be escorted from the building. (Usually, to keep it legal, on a 2 week vacation.) This is not too uncommon in financial services. I consider this flawed reasoning, but the people I've known who where hit by it considered it a nice bonus vacation...

rprasad 14y ago

Being fired generally means you were terminated for cause. Being laid off generally means you were terminated for business reasons.

danielweber 14y ago

I think this may vary by state. A friend gave 2-weeks notice and was fired immediately (from a non-tech-sector job) and said that, according to the state, he wasn't eligible for unemployment, because he had resigned. I was unwilling to dig through the laws enough to find out for sure. Until he told me this, my understanding was the same as yours.

cmccabe 14y ago
I think this may vary by state. A friend gave 2-weeks notice and was fired immediately (from a non-tech-sector job) and said that, according to the state, he wasn't eligible for unemployment, because he had resigned. Probably there was some kind of paperwork that the office had to file to make him eligible, which it didn't occur to them to do in this case. I'm willing to bet that its something they should have done, although I could definitely be wrong.
- danielweber 14y ago
  It seems that unemployment shouldn't function that way: the employer has to actively deny the UI claim, not have to do work to make their own UI premiums go up. Said friend may also suffer from social anxiety and just not want to talk to the UI office. By all means, anyone in this situation should call your state's unemployment office to find out. The worst they can do is say no. The one time I got laid off I was amazed at how nice they were.