• June@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Two nights ago I had a random meeting with the CEO, who I have a really good relationship with, added to my calendar. Thought nothing of it.

    I entered the zoom call and said ‘so am I getting fired?’

    The answer was yes.

    Awkward silence ensued for a minute until they started telling me about the severance package.

    Side note: I can try to negotiate that severance a bit right?

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        11 months ago

        How do you negotiate severance? Don’t you have zero leverage in that situation?

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          11 months ago

          Some severance packages will have a non disparagement clause in it, or they’ll say you can’t recruit people to xyz competitor for a number of years. You can then say “yes I can do that, but if and only if you give me 20% extra of my estimated salary”

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      11 months ago

      Urgh yeah I had one of those. A “small quick meeting” that makes you think they just want an informal update. Nope, its the getting fired talk. Still, turned out to be a blessing.

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        11 months ago

        Mine sucks because it’s the best job I’ve ever had. Planned on staying as long as they’d keep me (just under 5 years it turns out) and had no plans at all to even poke around at other roles.

        The silver lining is I’ll prob get a nice pay increase since I’ve been pretty underpaid at this place as it’s an NPO.