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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 47 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep. The invite was sent at nighttime the previous day so I didn't even show up for it. Manager had to ping me on slack to get me into the meeting to get laid off while I was still in bed slowly waking up that morning.

And I was so completely done with that company that I just broke out in laughter as soon as the call ended. Couldn't have worked out better for me.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My (small) company got acquired by a massive West coast tech giant and six months later all the employees (but not the executives and managers) of the original small company were laid off. This was not even remotely surprising to me, and would not have been even if any of us had been given any work to do during that six months. When my boss told me I was being laid off, I laughed and said "of course I am" which surprised him as apparently everybody else was massively shocked and upset. Which surprised me as I don't see how anybody could have possibly not seen it coming.

All things considered, this company was actually slightly decent about it, as they gave us two months' notice and severance equal to about what we would have been able to get from unemployment. The severance disqualified us from unemployment, but at least we got the amount up front and we didn't have to spend six months pretending to look for work.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The severance disqualified us from unemployment

That's false, you should have gotten both. I got severance AND unemployment.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's state-dependent. And in my state, unfortunately, severance above a threshold amount is deducted from the amount of unemployment benefits you're eligible for. I would have been eligible for something like $300 total, and this would have been payable only after nearly six months of filing claims and (pretending to be) looking for work that entire time. Certainly not worth it.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

I'd argue it is worth it because that $300 still came from the employer who laid you off in the first place.

I get it tho, that's not very motivating when you've got all the other bullshit around layoff and job searching to deal with

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Three times now. At this point I'm used to it and expecting it and have a pre-printed letter with questions to ask.

  • "What kind of compensation package am I receiving and what are the terms?"

  • "How long will I stay on company benefits after today?"

  • "Will there be any opposition on this company's part in my filing for unemployment insurance?"

  • "Do I have any legal restrictions in seeking employment in the same industry?"

  • "I have ordered several tons of fresh steer manure on the company card, to be delivered to the lobby by later this afternoon, do you fucking like that?"-

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

"Ah I'm finally getting a promotion"

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm usually early to work meetings, so this is usually how it feels till people drag themselves through the door 10 minutes later.

I once had that meeting, sort of

Only been with the boss and HR as a matter of performance once, I stayed for a shift I usually wasn't on, and a manager I'd never met but only heard was a total hardass was having a shitty day (parent passed, but i had no idea, I'd never met this guy). He passes my workstation, first time meeting the dude, and chews me out for some computer shit. Totally fair - I was on reddit or something on a work computer and policy is not to, then a coworker across the floor does something humerous as manager is walking away. He files a report I laughed at him. I was under the impression I'd been written up for computer misuse the entire hr meeting, so thats what I defended and admitted to. In retrospect, fuck that guy and fuck that workplace, I got a 6 month probationary period for that. I served it no issues, but no wonder they have staffing issues and no wonder no one likes the managers.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If a department is dragging and gets better once someone is replaced, then you had an employee issue. If a department is dragging and you keep replacing employees, you've got a management/company issue.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Its a state facility. They don't have turnover - they have churn. 200-300% churn annually. Good benefits though.

I rationed that in order for me to come back I'd need $70/hr to do that job again (100k annual after tax) and obviously they wont approve that lol

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It needs to be illegal to fire people who aren't doing a bad job in the US like they do in civilized countries

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s

[–] djehuti@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago

"not a team player"

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago

Except everyone is doing a bad job, because the standard corporate holds you to is the work of 10 people for 3% of your current wage.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Montana is cool at least, in this regard. Only state that does not have At Will employment.

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago

Nope, just got an email in my personal inbox and immediately cut off from everything

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mine was just a zoom invite texted to me with just my boss, but I figured the jig was up when I couldn't log into my work laptop.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] PonderousParrot@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago

Charlie Kirk was a made guy, and we weren't. And there was nothing we could do about it.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Happened to my partner, she worked from home 4 out of 5 days a week.

The company also had a lawyer there. All her accounts were locked by the end of the call, so she couldn't exchange contacts with colleagues she liked. They sent a box and shipping label for her notebook, but never mentioned the two 27" Dell monitors and the height adjustable table.

Sucked at the time, but the gear they left us is pretty nice.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Among other things, I was in charge of on and offboarding and buying IT gear. HR basically told me if the employee won't return the laptop we just have to suck it up. I may be misremembering, but legally speaking, we gave them the gear, no matter what paperwork they signed. And in no case would it pay to so much as begin legal action.

And no, we don't want the monitors. Just not worse the hassle and shipping.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most competent companies lock down laptops so that even if they didn't return them, it would be a useless brick

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

None of the companies I have worked with do that. What we do instead is we disable their login, and we also make sure that the PC is encrypted, so that if they do not return it, they will, of course, have to pay us for it, and then they can wipe it and reinstall and do whatever they want to do with the physical hardware.

Most people just return the hardware. Actually, now that I think about it, I think only once did we have an issue with getting the hardware back and we had still ended up with the hardware back after like a nine month delay.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ours wouldn't brick the laptops, but we do have software on them that let's us remote wipe them. They will do that if they dont get the device back in a timely manner.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Just in case it comes up later, since I assist in purchasing for the company I work for, what software is it?

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's all kinds of options like Microsoft Intune to corporate antivirus + data protection solutions

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If my company wipes my Mac through such a system, but I have it hooked to my own personal Apple cloud account, can I go buy a new Mac and restore it?

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

If your Apple account is separate and the uploaded backups are untouched by the company solution, then yes (in other words, if file deletion doesn't sync into your iCloud backup)

Note that the company might use the management tool to block you from connecting personal accounts!

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

As the other commenter said there are a lot of options. I used to be in charge of imaging and we just used SCCM to deploy. I had to pass on these roles as my responsibilities changed and the team that was getting it deemed it to complicated... go figure. They complained enough and found smart deploy and they accomplished getting it because of its ability to wipe pcs.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

And in no case would it pay to so much as begin legal action.

Unless it's very new equipment, financially its not worth the hassle.

Same reason they dont want the monitors or adjustable desk back, shipping would cost as much as they are worth and they've already deprecated away most if not all of the value which the court would take into account.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week ago

Most recent one was a little lol because I had gotten a ~15 minute heads up from another terminated coworker about what was going down – HR was late to mine, so there was around 10 minutes of empty small talk with the boss.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Your eyes and ears are deceiving you, the economy is in a new golden era commi.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago

It's when you completely dismantle their issues, and they carry on repeating said point. Time to go then

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Flashed your penis to ladies again?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All I said are that Nazis were bad and that killing people is wrong

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

"hey look, the news has gotten around, the head of HR and my line manager want to see my elephant impression too!"

[–] alienzx@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

I've been the boss...

Not by choice.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Ohhhhhh Nooooooo .... (POWWWWW)!!!!!