Posted on 03/23/2023 9:07:26 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Whether this example is real or not, this is why companies lock everyone out, THEN tell them they are fired.
That is certainly the more typical way such things are handled in most places.
>>I lived by the saying “Don’t burn your bridges.” Never know when you might need one.
That reminds me of this story:
A man got off of a train, approached an old man sitting on a bench at the train station, and said:
“Hey old man, I am looking for a new place to live. What is it like here?”
The old man replied, “What was it like where you came from?”
The man replied, “I couldn’t stand it! The people were really hateful!”
The old man suggested, “You should get back on the train and try somewhere else. People in this town are like that.”
So, the man got back on the train, and it departed.
A while later a man got off of another train, approached the old man, and asked the same question:
“Hey old man, I am looking for a new place to live. What is it like here?”
The old man replied, “What was it like where you came from?”
The man replied, “The people were very nice, but it was too cold for me. I need to live in a warmer climate.”
The old man suggested, “Why don’t you live here? People in this town are like that.”
Mr. Kalamata
What company fires a programmer and doesn’t walk them out the door that day and makes sure they don’t get their hands on anything?
None, which is why this is BS.
“Do you believe stories by anonymous that have absolutely nothing that can be checked?
Personally, I don’t.”
Like I tell the wife...
It’s on the Internet, so it MUST be true. /s
When I was with EDS (Electronic Data Systems - Ross Perot's old company) there was a fellow Oracle DBA who had a system go down on Friday and he worked non-stop all weekend to recover and restore it. On Monday they notified him he'd been "officially terminated" on Friday. He threatened to sue, but the EDS jerkwad who was the "Engagement Manager" (total incompetent and unqualified) told him that they would "just throw his suit on the stack with the 75+ others". I quit soon afterwards, so I don't know what, if anything he did, but pretty much anything would've been justified.
He was paid for that work. He should be required to it give all of it back to the company or face serious prison time.
These actions by this laid off employee is the reason why many companies treat their laid off employees like criminals when they get laid off. The company that has these policies are doing this to avoid sabotage.
Plus why is this idiot going on TikTok to brag about this? Makes no sense to me. This is similar to other idiots who brag about getting paid to do nothing. Why tell the world that?
That is good advise, never burn a bridge if you can help it.
First sentence. Precisely. That’s what Fridays are for
To be regarded as dubious until you have something to back it up.
This is like using a tale you heard one drunk tell another at a pub as the basis for an article. Worse actually because you could at least tell if the story spinner in the bar was an adult or a snotty twelve year old.
I know of people who were let go that knew the systems inside and out who refused to be rehired and insisted on consultant contracts to fix the systems. One was such a critical system, the management team was telling HR to pay whatever fee the person wanted.
This was my first thought, too.
I had something similar happen to me during an odd eddy in my career path. I was a college-trained professional programmer going back to the mainframe days. After the completion of a major multi-year IT project decades later, I was misplaced in the "business unit" supporting the business help desk staff. Out of place for my skillset, I took it upon myself to build an Access database and front-end GUI to support the support staff of 100 people to respond to and fix reported system issues.
After single-handedly building a prioritization system that got a dozen disparate business segments to agree with each other on resolution priorities (everyone previously argued that their bugs were the most important), and personally running the monthly prioritization and scheduling meetings, my position (but not the work) was eliminated in the next round of layoffs.
Fortunately, I found a position back in the IT department where I could properly contribute with my natural skillset for the remainder of my career, but unfortunately, the person who took over my prior prioritization role in the business unit died of a brain aneurysm a few months later.
-PJ
Sounds like the story my dad told me is sort of a recurring theme? Very smart though..hate your job or want job security and have the smarts...why not?
These were people who they laid off but then they realized that to ramp up another person on a complicated system was costing them $$$. When you get a call like that, it’s a blank check.
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