man you guys need unions

here it's minimum two months notice by law, usually three by contract, increasing by one month per every five years. and you can basically only get fired for actively sabotaging business, doing illegal shit, or if there legitimately is nothing for you to do. and they still have to pay you for the entire time. like, i worked at a company that went bankrupt and after the estate or whatever it's called ran out of cash, the state paid out the final month.

flipside: it goes the other way too.

Well, my colleagues all knew in the day I was laid off in the morning before me. I only knew about it after it being announced in the afternoon because it was a day off for me. It was fun. People coming to say goodbye and me having no idea what they were talking.

I remember being the server guy who had to stay late on Fridays and remove access at 6pm.

I got a panicked call from someone who couldn't save the file he was working on. It was for a project set to go live on Tuesday.

I had to break it to him that he was just let go.

I worked on a 6 month project. At month 5, they said they are not renewing even tho they need the position.

My team fought the VP and said if I don't continue it would be detrimental to the project.

She renews me for another 6 months and makes me fly to an off-site to present at an mbr.

The VP proceeds to cancel my contract the day I land in San Francisco. Because she doesn't want a remote worker anymore and wants this person to come in 4 days a week.

Corporate doesn't care about you. You need to be selfish because nobody will care about you otherwise.

Anyone else dislike the phrase "let go" in this context? It sounds like you're doing them a favor, or they were being held hostage, or giving them permission to do something. I'd prefer "fired" or "terminated", even though those have their own connotation problems.

Meme's relatable, though. This capitalist hellscape is awful.

IT also often shares the burden of knowledge...

You should automate it so when the HR system fires someone the AD or Entra accounts are disabled and licenses are removed.

But yea, it is the shit part.

I remembered a worse time (than being the one who kills access):

One of my vendors had won the contract that my company currently held with an automaker. It was told to me in confidence, as they thought it was going to be announced later that month. I was also told because they were looking to hire me to keep all the day-to-day knowledge.

It was finally announced... EIGHT. MONTHS. LATER.

While I never said anything (it could have tucked a major deal and got myself and a few others in legal hot water), I was always quick to counsel my underlings to move to other positions or get jobs somewhere else.

All Middle Managers Are Bastards

I couldn't do it. I'd have shot him a text from my personal phone. The fact that I couldn't do that is probably why I've never even thought of trying to apply for a job like that.