Comment by hotpotamus
3 years ago
Last time I was laid off, I got $90K to keep my mouth shut. And you know what I did? I shut the hell up, and I'm not even all that thrilled to post about it anonymously here. It was all fairly amiable as well.
3 years ago
Last time I was laid off, I got $90K to keep my mouth shut. And you know what I did? I shut the hell up, and I'm not even all that thrilled to post about it anonymously here. It was all fairly amiable as well.
Yep, that's exactly what I mean. Paid to sign, sure thing, probably want to run it by a lawyer first to make sure the terms aren't too crazy and your getting a good deal, but for free? Forget it, nothing they are going to ask you to sign will help you, only them.
Even when being fired for cause severance is sometimes possible. All depends on how much they want those papers signed.
Yeah, it was pretty clear that they were paying you a decent chunk to not cause any trouble; I didn't need a lawyer to tell me that, but I agree that couldn't hurt as long as they aren't exorbitant. Honestly, it's my best piece of advice for any company that has to get rid of someone - money makes it better, and it's one thing that company did fairly well. I had a problematic co-worker who got fired in one spectacular event (like you see in movies) after getting into a dick measuring contest with a director or VP (forget his exact title at the time) after causing a serious outage. As far as I know he got a decent check out of the thing even though he absolutely deserved to be let go.