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neatchee Oct 30, 2024

If an employer ever asks you to resign, tell them "no".

There is no benefit to resigning unless you have another job lined up already.

Make them fire you. Get your unemployment benefits. Make sure you are legally protected in case of malfeasance. Resigning undermines all of that.

This message brought to you by AWS telling workers to return to office 5-days-a-week by commuting or relocating, or they should resign.

Again, the answer is "no, you'll have to fire me."

EDIT: To clarify, in most areas "fired" and "let go" are not legally meaningful terms and can be used interchangeably. The important term is "for cause" or not. So don't commit misconduct to get fired. Poor job performance is typically not a "for cause" reason, nor is failure to accept changes like RTO

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cathos Oct 31, 2024

@neatchee I was thinking about this the other day - about how I was forcibly demoted at a company, and bullied into signing documents to accept a decrease in wages. And how that felt so wrong, but I couldn't go research it because my manager boxed me in and wouldn't let me leave the conference room. And how I've also quit so many times when places tried to force me to do more (and work faster) than I was able to. Never again.

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cathos Oct 31, 2024

@neatchee Of course, then I ended up doing contract work, which the companies like because they can let you go at any time with very little paperwork or financial burden.

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neatchee

@cathos Yup. They just have to pay the company you're contracted to an early termination fee on the contract the two companies made. It's so shady.

Damn right never again. Stand up for your rights. What that company did to you is definitely not legal (at least in most developed countries).

When an employer offered me a paltry $500 severance I told them no and they told me "okay, give us the contract back." I said "absolutely not, this is mine now, I will not be returning it and instead keeping it as evidence of your efforts to screw me over". They didn't like that so they got the 7ft tall, 300lb QA tester to come stand in the room to intimidate me. I calmly told them "you just made a really big mistake. I'll be collecting my things and leaving now." Then I lawyered up

Don't roll over <3