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Or they're paying a 10% bonus of yearly salary as payment if they're willing to train their replacement. If someone offered me $10K extra on top of my salary t

Or they're paying a 10% bonus of yearly salary as payment if they're willing to train their replacement. If someone offered me $10K extra on top of my salary to take the trash out and clean the company kitchen for 2 weeks, I would gladly do it without blinking, even if it's a little humbling. I don't know about you. Calling it extortion is a bit much.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
> If someone offered me $10K to take the trash out and clean the company kitchen for 2 weeks, I would gladly do it without blinking, even if it's a little humbling. I don't know about you. You mean 90 days, because that's the requirement in their agreement. And its not "taking out the trash", its directly training your lower-wage foreign replacement.
airza 11y ago
Maybe you might feel differently if you were being fired at the end of those two weeks?
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czinck 11y ago
10% is around a months wages. I'd tell them to get lost if that's all they offered to train my replacement (plus regular salary), I could find a new job in less than a month. I'd need a few months severance to go through that level of embarrassment, and not contingent on me finding a new job.
- jfuhrman 11y ago
  I believe they have been given notices longer than a month. Anyway, it's a financial transaction for knowledge and labor like any other, if you think you're getting a raw deal, you should not accept the deal. Not sure how it is financial extortion though.
  - s73v3r 11y ago
    Because you've taken people who are at a very vulnerable spot in their lives, and who are probably going through a lot of self doubt as to whether they'll be able to find another job in that time.
davesque 11y ago
Very easy to say from a distance. Imagine actually doing what they were coerced into doing.
Spooky23 11y ago
It's more than that with big employers like Disney in towns with limited options. You end up getting blackballed from future employment with contract providers if you say or do anything perceived negative.
s73v3r 11y ago
That's a completely different situation and you know it.

toomuchtodo 11y ago

> If someone offered me $10K to take the trash out and clean the company kitchen for 2 weeks, I would gladly do it without blinking, even if it's a little humbling. I don't know about you. You mean 90 days, because that's the requirement in their agreement. And its not "taking out the trash", its directly training your lower-wage foreign replacement.

airza 11y ago

Maybe you might feel differently if you were being fired at the end of those two weeks?

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czinck 11y ago

10% is around a months wages. I'd tell them to get lost if that's all they offered to train my replacement (plus regular salary), I could find a new job in less than a month. I'd need a few months severance to go through that level of embarrassment, and not contingent on me finding a new job.

jfuhrman 11y ago
I believe they have been given notices longer than a month. Anyway, it's a financial transaction for knowledge and labor like any other, if you think you're getting a raw deal, you should not accept the deal. Not sure how it is financial extortion though.
- s73v3r 11y ago
  Because you've taken people who are at a very vulnerable spot in their lives, and who are probably going through a lot of self doubt as to whether they'll be able to find another job in that time.

davesque 11y ago

Very easy to say from a distance. Imagine actually doing what they were coerced into doing.

Spooky23 11y ago

It's more than that with big employers like Disney in towns with limited options. You end up getting blackballed from future employment with contract providers if you say or do anything perceived negative.

s73v3r 11y ago

That's a completely different situation and you know it.