Submitted 13 hours ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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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)_/¯
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.
Most competent companies lock down laptops so that even if they didn’t return them, it would be a useless brick
Lol got caught with her hand in the cookie jar?
Nope, just got an email in my personal inbox and immediately cut off from everything
Just horrible. When I had to deal with people that I had to lay off or fire because they weren’t working out I would calmly sit down with them and say, “we need to work together on an exit plan for you”. I would then try to use my contacts to get them hooked up some place else and always give them a good recommendation.
That’s because you suffer the deadly condition of caring about the well being of others.
I’m usually early to work meetings, so this is usually how it feels till people drag themselves through the door 10 minutes later.
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). He passes my workstation, first time meeting the dude, and chews me out for some computer shit. Totally fair, then add coworker across the floor does something humerous. 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 noone likes the managers.
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.
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) and obviously they wont approve that lol
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.
It needs to be illegal to fire people who aren’t doing a bad job in the US like they do in civilized countries
That doesn’t sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s
“not a team player”
It is in some states. Just not all of them.
Mine was just a zoom invite texted to me, but I figured the jig was up when I couldn’t log into my work laptop.
Your eyes and ears are deceiving you, the economy is in a new golden era commi.
Flashed your penis to the ladies again?
All I said was that Nazis were bad and that killing people is wrong
“hey look, the news has gotten around, the head of HR and my line manager want to see my elephant impression too!”
And here I was thinking I was just doing them a favor. I thought that they would enjoy seeing it.
It’s when you completely dismantle their issues, and they carry on repeating said point. Time to go then
I’ve been the boss…
Not by choice.
Twice.
Did you suspect it before the meeting started?
Not at all. The first time was when covid happened, the second time was when the startup I was at was struggling to raise funding. Both times they laid off 1/3 of the company.
noxypaws@pawb.social 7 hours ago
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.