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I've survived also, but deep down feel cheated of missing the incredibly generous severance. Oh, to be incompetent ...

by xirdstl 11y ago

swalsh 11y ago
It always feels bittersweet. I recently switched jobs, but just before I left the company laid off 40 people. We all knew it was coming, so I've been searching (though really more like making a decision, i had about 4 offers to choose from) for a few months at that point. A large part me was pretty disappointed when my project was the only one out of 3 to survive the cuts. I ended up leaving 2.5 weeks afterwards.
aswanson 11y ago
Generous severance, hilarious. At one gig I worked they gave the dead weight something like 6 months pay 4 months medical and quite a few refused it while some of the more competent employees were volunteering to take it, and being denied the opportunity. It was a SNL skit situation.
- mcguire 11y ago
  "For those of you who choose to take it, the severance package will be...." "Wow. Can I take it?" says I. "No, you're a co-op."
slavik81 11y ago
Wally, the Dilbert character, was inspired by an engineer trying to get laid off. > Wally was inspired by a coworker of creator Scott Adams at Pacific Bell. In Seven Years of Highly Defective People and What Would Wally Do, Adams explained that his co-worker at Pacific Bell had made a bad judgment call, so management froze him at his position and pay scale rather than fire him. Then Pacific Bell started offering a generous severance package for the lowest ten-percent of workers, so the coworker, knowing management had hinted that he should leave the company and knowing it was better to leave with money than without, had an incentive to become a low performing worker. Adams was inspired by this co-worker's serious dedication toward this goal, and the concept of a completely shameless employee with no sense of loyalty became Wally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(Dilbert) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(Dilbert)
bane 11y ago
The last time I survived layoffs, it took me longer to find a new job than my laid-off peers. I'll always be grateful to have a place to go that sends me a check for the privilege of my company, even if I hate going there.
ryandrake 11y ago
I left a job to go back to grad school, and then less than a year later, they closed the office and gave out extremely generous severances that would have probably paid for a year or more of school. Boy, did I feel like an idiot. I'll probably never get over that horrible timing.

I've survived also, but deep down feel cheated of missing the incredibly generous severance. Oh, to be incompetent ...

by xirdstl 11y ago

I've survived also, but deep down feel cheated of missing the incredibly generous severance. Oh, to be incompetent ...

It always feels bittersweet. I recently switched jobs, but just before I left the company laid off 40 people. We all knew it was coming, so I've been searching (though really more like making a decision, i had about 4 offers to choose from) for a few months at that point. A large part me was pretty disappointed when my project was the only one out of 3 to survive the cuts. I ended up leaving 2.5 weeks afterwards.

aswanson 11y ago

Generous severance, hilarious. At one gig I worked they gave the dead weight something like 6 months pay 4 months medical and quite a few refused it while some of the more competent employees were volunteering to take it, and being denied the opportunity. It was a SNL skit situation.

mcguire 11y ago
"For those of you who choose to take it, the severance package will be...." "Wow. Can I take it?" says I. "No, you're a co-op."

slavik81 11y ago

Wally, the Dilbert character, was inspired by an engineer trying to get laid off. > Wally was inspired by a coworker of creator Scott Adams at Pacific Bell. In Seven Years of Highly Defective People and What Would Wally Do, Adams explained that his co-worker at Pacific Bell had made a bad judgment call, so management froze him at his position and pay scale rather than fire him. Then Pacific Bell started offering a generous severance package for the lowest ten-percent of workers, so the coworker, knowing management had hinted that he should leave the company and knowing it was better to leave with money than without, had an incentive to become a low performing worker. Adams was inspired by this co-worker's serious dedication toward this goal, and the concept of a completely shameless employee with no sense of loyalty became Wally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(Dilbert) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(Dilbert)

bane 11y ago

The last time I survived layoffs, it took me longer to find a new job than my laid-off peers. I'll always be grateful to have a place to go that sends me a check for the privilege of my company, even if I hate going there.

ryandrake 11y ago

I left a job to go back to grad school, and then less than a year later, they closed the office and gave out extremely generous severances that would have probably paid for a year or more of school. Boy, did I feel like an idiot. I'll probably never get over that horrible timing.