Strong disagree. It’s a lot easier to find a job when you have a job.
Comment on Amazon's strict return-to-office policy is pushing more employees into quitting
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s the point…
Layoffs and firings hurt stock price and needs unemployment checks.
So they make it as shitty as possible, hoping people quit instead.
Never quit your job over shit like this. Refuse and make them fire you if they care that much.
You might even get a class action for unlawful termination later, we need to start treating corporations like how they treat people.
BeefPiano@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Odelay42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying, but unfortunately the stock price soared at amzn after layoffs. Same thing happened at my old company. Only thing the market sees is the bottom line.
Also, the people quitting are the ones with a strong enough resume to get hired elsewhere.
Quiet quitting is an excellent option if you don’t care what your next job is, but the fully remote options are all getting filled quickly, and simply waiting to get fired just means you’ll be job hunting later in a potentially worse market, and going back to the office anyway.
Better to move up and out than just wait to be fired, in my opinion.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
stock price soared at amzn after layoffs. Same thing happened at my old company.
Stock prices are really not correlative. If the C-suite are chasing that high, you should go while you still can.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Never quit your job over shit like this.
Except life’s too short as it is. Martyrs are forgotten. Just go, get a better job, don’t look back.
9 years and 2 days ago I clocked out of my job on a Friday, caught a plane, clocked in a new job 3000mi away on Monday. I was already working to secure the wages while my wife was showing the house.
maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never quit when a company intentionally makes your life shitty?
meco03211@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes. Being fired means almost nothing nowadays. Worst case scenario, they fire you with cause so you can’t collect unemployment. That puts you in the exact same situation as quitting. Once you decide you want to quit, just do the bare minimum while you job search.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I actually work as keenly as possible. I really strive to leave a wound that’ll sting long after I’v— uh, I mean I really strive to leave a good impression during the (for me) year-long process of finding a good next job. For my peers, they’re going to need my work to be super up-to-date because leaving them a shit-fire is a bit of a dick move and I respect my peers a lot.
dojan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If my workplace were to rescind the work from home stuff, I’d refuse to go to office and split my time between doing my actual job and shopping around for a new workplace.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s what I did and they only wanted us back two days a month. Even did the interviews on company time.
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, until feasible, stay there. Do the absolute minimum. They want you to quit, since it makes it easier for them to avoid workers’ rights legislation