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The 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
by itsybitsycoder 11y ago
The 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."
- mikeash 11y agoFor your transgression, I hereby sentence you to five minutes of reading YouTube comments, which the Supreme Court has determined is the maximum permissible before it violates the Constitution's guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
- WalterSear 11y agoI'm skipping bail.
- samstave 11y agoWhats the difference? ;)
- itsybitsycoder 11y agoYou're assuming their options are to stay or to be unemployed for 3 months. I'm saying it would be easier to find a job immediately (when there are fewer people on the market) than wait until everyone is laid off and you have more competition for jobs. More likely, if they'd left immediately, many of them could have gotten the equivalent of 4 months wages at their new job, since hopping is often the best way to get a raise.
- rhino369 11y agoWhy not both? Take the deal and start looking for a new job immediately and leave when you get it.
- bsg75 11y agoUnless you find a new gig, and depart the day you accept it.
- Kluny 11y agoSame here. Shit like that is why I keep a couple years of living expenses saved up. If an employer tries to humiliate me like that, I'll walk.
- shit_parade2 11y agoThe other option is to quit but offer to train their new employee as a consultant at twice or thrice your previous salary.
- chrisbennet 11y agoBrilliant!
- MaysonL 11y agoActually only brilliant if you can talk most of your colleagues into doing the same, and Disney goes for it…