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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I remember years and years ago when I still a regular employee I got into work one morning to find I no longer had access to any git repos. nothing. Well already knew the reason right then and there. I usually got in before everyone else so by the time people were coming into the office I was packing my stuff up to leave. People were all "where are you going?" I said "well I either got fired or laid off so I'm leaving, I'm not sitting through a bullshit meeting telling me why I was laid off"

wiped the laptop, wiped my externals, walked out, went and sat in a coffee shop to revise my resume. I got a call like an hour later asking me where I was and why I didn't attend the meeting I was apparently schedule for. I replied with "you laid me off" few minutes later they email me back saying they'll just send my ROE and last paycheque in the mail and then proceeded to explain why I and a few other devs were laid off. I didn't bother reading the rest of it.

Then I decided to become a freelancer and never looked back. best decision I made.

What REALLY annoyed me about the whole thing was I thought I was good friends with the IT guy that set up access to everything, he was the one that revoked my access the night before and didn't tell me. I was literally having a beer with him that night and he never said a word. out of everything that hurt the most. never spoke to him again.

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Great story on how you handled it. And totally agree with you on the IT guy. What a douche that he just couldn't give you a heads up.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

the insulting thing out of it is I paid for his beers! he KNEW I was getting laid off and didn't say "hey...maybe I should be paying for these" nope, gladly accepted my money. He tried to contact me after the fact and I just blocked him.

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago

Some people dont have the guts for it.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

I was going to say that if the workplace is harsh and the IT guy would get fired for telling you, in his place I might not say anything and then immediately apologize. And apparently get blocked with no discussion.

But damn, letting you pay?

And it's kind of irrelevant because you acted as if you already knew anyway, lol.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

To give benefit of the doubt maybe IT guy was told HR already let you know? Still sucks overall good choice in freelancing.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

no. I was talking about projects I was working on with him. he knew, he let me talk about them and said nothing.

If IT guy thought they new, why not bring it up, offer consolation, maybe buy a few rounds...you know, human with empathy stuff?

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago

HR lady once spit a whole ass pack of lies about my work performance, and had cut off my email access so I couldn’t prove her wrong, which would have been trivially easy. Realized before I spoke up that if the HR director is lying this bad, there’s no reason to even try to “prove” I’m right, just a really toxic company.

[–] sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 36 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I got laid off about five and a half years ago, at the start of Covid. The meeting was with my manager and his boss (who I was also friendly with). I got a meeting invite and asked if we could push it back an hour so I could drive my wife to work, they said sure. I told my wife on the drive that I was getting laid off. Sure enough, I was. They paid me five weeks severance and gave me resources to file for unemployment. It was due to Covid causing a huge drop in money coming in, which was understandable. Honestly, I didn't like my job, I had already hired a company to rewrite my resumé. So it worked out. At least my boss and his boss had the spine to do it personally. I'll always give them credit for that.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Man, I was on that manager side, having to lay people off because of some bad decisions from upper management.

I usually do everything I can, like give them recommendations letters, try to get them as much money as possible that they're owed... Literally bend over backwards.

Everyone takes that news differently. One guy cursed me out, kicked some shit and stormed out. And I just got up and cleaned it all up because brother, I get it.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

When I've had to let people go, I've always believed it important to do it personally. It's difficult, but it's part of the duty of a boss to face the person they're letting go.

I've been accused of being cold when doing it, but that's because I don't feel like I have the right to show the emotional impact on me when it's someone else's life being wrecked.

I've also violated company policy several times and given glowing reviews of former staff instead of simply confirming they worked at the company.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Interestingly for me, the bosses I got along with always got fired first. Both companies I got laid off from had several rounds of layoffs, and in both cases my boss was round 4, and I was round 5 several months later.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ready to be laid off, i can feel it coming considering the economy feels like its on stilts and my company scrapping the bottom of the barrel for projects to work on.

I don't own anything and don't have anybody.

Prepared for my NEET life.

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

If you don't have anybody, it will be hard to be a neet. They are usually maintained by someone else (mostly parents)

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Hope you will find a new job soon, It really sucks to find a job in these times 😞

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Hmm, do we work at the same place? I can set you up with my old camping gear...

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

MegaBux Inc. bought our small ag-biotech firm in 2018. I had developed a high throughput product screening system for natural products against a bunch of animal diseases. The program worked and we identified a bunch of candidates (I also developed the list of things to screen) for botanical/natural solutions to animal diseases. I should have guessed that I was on the chopping block when after finding out some of the things we screened actually worked, I got replaced as PI on the project by someone else much younger. A couple months into 2020 all the folks at the R&D center (including me) got laid off. They did pay severance to us- and mine took me out to October of that year due to my longevity with the firm that was purchased. A couple months after that, a bunch of the junior staff (who were well trained in my methods) got hired back. I was almost 69 at the time, so it was probably time to retire anyway. I was very lucky. This is so familiar! At least I made my stack and can live comfortably on my SS and pensions.

high-tech solution for measuring and promoting old tech efficacy? investors looking at this “How is this supposed to make us more profitable as a company?” CTO in response “…We could sell the information to other companies… or even trade it with third parties like individuals, or even organs of government…”. Investors: “Interesting! We would need to be careful with how we would go about doing that, no?” CTO: “sigh Time to reorganize the department again. and this time I must be sure to purge the lead designer on the software, so they don’t form any attachments to the use cases of the sale or propriety of the resultant information from the project”

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh. I heard this bluff from Pat Geisinger himself, in person.

I was employed by VMware many moons ago when Pat took the helm. He decided to start by cutting an entire department from my location, sight unseen.

We then changed all the furniture because they had two floors of the building and wanted to cut back since they just lost half a floor of people.

We go home, work from home for a while, then return. Then Pat comes by for a site visit.

He stood there with the gall to say that the team that was cut was a different business unit, and that was a business decision regarding that business unit (it was the front line team, which was then relocated to "low cost centers").... Blah blah blah.... This is a different department, a different business unit, blah blah, what happened to them is isolated, and doesn't mean anything regarding your employment.... Blah blah ....

I didn't buy it for a second. But I was too stressed out to do anything at the time.

The layoffs started less than six months later. I was part of the first round.

Fuck you Pat.

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So sad how they just have to fucking lie to everyone.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, if they tell you about your impending demise you might not work as hard!

[–] ehyuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I would spend my working time looking for a new job.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Being sarcastic got me fired. Twice.

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The only good thing about getting laid off is 1) you can at least collect unemployment 2) It's easier to get another job because you weren't simply fired

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

Unemployment isn't that easy to collect in a lot of states. My state's unemployment system is essentially designed to dissuade people from collecting. Tons of red tape, rules, and conditions to wade through and if the stars are right you might start getting checks worth 2/3 the value of your original paycheck a month later.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The best thing about getting laid off is still getting paid but not having to go to work.

Having responsibility that they don't want you to abuse, and having a robust social net that requires employers to pay out an employee for a specified time (mine was 3 month) is amazing. (Go Belgium)

A full 3 months of vacation and plenty of time to look for other jobs.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

"oh I'm sorry, I had to leave early. Something's come up. You'll receive FMLA paperwork soon; I'm afraid I have to invoke mandatory legally protected family medical leave. See you in at least 90 days"

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

Since its clear you are a bad worker leave off a few important task. They can chalk it up later to themselves as proof they made the right decision when those tasks fall through the cracks.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

All important tasks. Let them figure it out

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Sometimes you can even see it through the telephone

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