I am fairly sure that I am being laid off with other Sr. Engineers tomorrow and need some ideas. Basically, I saw a calendar mistake by HR, so oops!

Meh. It’s gonna suck for a bit, but whatevers. Life is more important than a shit job. :)

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Get all your questions about unemployment ready, including the forms filled in today… File asap! File as soon as they let you go.

    If you have stock/equity decide now if your going to exercise it. You may have to pay taxes in addition to the exercise price.

    Bring all your work stuff from home. Hand it over and get a receipt, nobody wants to play phone tag with a ex to get their stuff back.

    If you have access to sensitive systems or passwords, put it in writing what you know and tell them they need to change those passwords now.

    Make sure you keep contact with anyone you care about now, before you lose access to the systems.

    Be the adult, let them you know these transitions are hard, compliment them for doing a difficult thing so well, make it clear there are no hard feelings. I’ve had multiple long term highly lucrative consultation arrangements after a layoff.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      While good advice, he did specify to YOLO the exit interview, this is too responsible to be a YOLO imho lmao

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Honestly, the biggest yolo is to be professional, prepared, drama free. Don’t even let it bother you.

        I’m above this, I have my own plan, I have confidence… It will distinguish you.

        I once had a new job lined up, but hadn’t put my notice in, I got laid off before the Friday I was going to put my notice in. The firing officers complemented me on how well I was taking it.

        Then 3 months later they hire me as a side contractor at 5x my salaried rate while I was still doing my new full time job.

        So yeah… Yolo is about having your life together and being above other people’s drama, a bit of luck helps too.

        • Delphia@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          I know a few people who have been hired back on as contractors when the company realised they went too far or laid off people with unique experience.

          Yolo is for teenagers leaving Burger King naked.

    • remotelove@lemmy.caOP
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      1 month ago

      Props for the prep advice.

      If you have access to sensitive systems or passwords, put it in writing what you know and tell them they need to change those passwords now.

      I am in security, so I know the logical reasons for that even though someone is sure to say that is bullshit.

      However, I left a job once and encrypted all critical passwords I knew on a USB drive and gave it to my manager. For the password, I created a riddle that only he would know. I gave my old manager (he was cool) the USB drive and walked. After about a week, he was laid off for pure money reasons. So a month goes by and I get a frantic phone call one morning asking for all the passwords to some super important systems and I was kind enough to know they had pointlessly fired the only person who would of had access. (They had blindly destroyed his remaining equipment and paperwork, so they were gone.)