HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron
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Nope. There are firings with cause that have nothing to do with legality and it turns out that's most of them by far. You can legally tell customers to lick your balls and you will probably get fired for misconduct and then you won't get benefits. What constitutes "misconduct" varies by state but none of them require you to break the law.
Probably more protections in blue states I’m guessing
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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.
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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.
Hmm, do we work at the same place? I can set you up with my old camping gear...
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"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"
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Being sarcastic got me fired. Twice.
Based tho
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Ah yes, shaming shameless corp always works
it's not about shame, it's about people going "Oh so that company sucks, let's not work there", resulting in the shitty company not having any fucking workers
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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.
So sad how they just have to fucking lie to everyone.
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So sad how they just have to fucking lie to everyone.
Well, if they tell you about your impending demise you might not work as hard!
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Well, if they tell you about your impending demise you might not work as hard!
why would you
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This is why I have so far refused to be a people manager. I'm not going to be able to emotionally handle laying someone off.
take the job and ignore how they tell you to act, when the company lets someone go you just walk up to them with a basket of goodies (paid for with the company card) and shake their hand and share some complaints about higher ups
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why would you
I would spend my working time looking for a new job.
