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Yeah, if you read the letter informing workers of the layoff, it's clear that their severance depends on continued good performance until a separation date. Go
by geebee 11y ago
Yeah, if you read the letter informing workers of the layoff, it's clear that their severance depends on continued good performance until a separation date. Good performance includes training the replacement.
- astrodust 11y agoIsn't this where people live up to the letter of the agreement but flagrantly ignore the spirit of it?
- MattyRad 11y agoGood point. What is the bare minimum to qualify for "good performance?" What training information is classified as critical and necessary? Some specifics could be easily omitted, I expect. There could be a tinge of satisfaction in crippling your replacement.
- slayed0 11y agoI feel like in such a highly technical field it would be fairly easy to deliberately omit plenty of critical details without anyone noticing. It seems it would also be possible to make small additions to the system such that you would be the only person who really knows how things work. As long as you answer all of their questions you would certainly be meeting the good performance stipulation. There would be no way for them to know whether you are providing the whole story. Why offer up information that is not specifically requested? After all, the hardest part of engineering is knowing which questions to ask in the first place.
- WalterSear 11y agoI don't think I would find myself ignoring it as much as finding ways to violate it catastrophically.
- wyldfire 11y agoWhen I first read your comment I thought you were referring to the employer with respect to the H1-B visa requirements. :(
- itsybitsycoder 11y agoThe severance is only one month's pay, though, and they had to train their replacements for 3 months to get it. Not to mention that at the end of those 3 months the market will be flooded with all your ex-coworkers. Doesn't seem worth it to me.
- emidln 11y agoThey would get the severance plus three months pay as opposed to nothing by quitting immediately. 4 months pay is presumably better than nothing.
- hga 11y agoYour self-respect etc. might be worth more. The one time something vaguely like this happened to me, granted my boss made it very personal although in truth he'd lost his ability to sell, I would have been much, much better off telling him to FO and leaving on the spot, instead it triggered anxiety that eventually disabled me, which I later learned I had a genetic predisposition towards. Money isn't the end all and be all, after all.
- WalterSear 11y agoIt can be, if you are living on amusement park wages.
- itsybitsycoder 11y agoThese are software developers, not carnies.
- WalterSear 11y agoAnnd I've been caught commenting without reading the article. "Please your honor, it's such an easy temptation to fall into, when the articles are so infrequently more useful than the comments section."