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Being fired is even better, that means you can ask for a higher pay when they inevitably ask you to return
They never do that. Instead they hire a team each of which is paid more than they paid you. Then they hire consultants to optimize the team because the team isn't performing well.
I worked at Dollar general for years. They couldn't keep decent employees at my local store, so I was commonly considered by employees and customers to be the favorite employee. Eventually, my manager quit. This resulted in them moving my assistant manager to being manager. Issue being, my assistant manager hated me. I knew that my days of working there were over because I'm not going to deal with harassment, so I left.
A year later the regional manager reached out to me asking if I want to take over as manager. They fired the entire crew, including the assistant manager. This could have to do with his embezzling of funds, tampering with the security system, his inability to leave even a single customer anything less than pissed off, or any number of other issues.
I told the regional manager to fuck off, she had her chance a year ago when I told her this would happen and why I was leaving.
My first layoff they hired 3 people to replace me. They all quit in less than a year. This is after they ignored me when I told them that their job requirements were impossible and couldn't be done.
Oh and it cost the company millions because a ton of critical information was only in my head.
Depending on how long it is (and usually that depends on company policy) you can ask for more money when they call you back. I did exactly that. I never would have gotten to that pay level otherwise. So that layoff ended up being quite profitable for me, even though I had to wait over a year. (Was working somewhere else in the mean time and making way less money.)
And a paid vacation if you claim the unemployment. Not your regular rate but better than nothing.
You can claim unemployment whether you are fired or laid off.
And I thought actually “fired with cause” meant you couldn’t claim unemployment. But you can always claim the company is making up the cause, so no one ever challenges this.
There are even circumstances you can claim unemployment after you quit.
Not many circumstances. But they exist.
Yep, my wife argued and won for unemployment after quitting. Ended up being extended for 2 years because of the 2009 crash.
Reason, employer supported her to work from home for 6 months. Then management turnover happened and the new one mandated she return to the office. Since she stayed home the daycare situation had gone to shit and we couldn't find reasonable care that didn't cost her entire paycheck. She was forced to quit. Judge ruled it was a creative firing and she got unemployment.
Good to know.
I actually knew a guy who negotiated a severance package when he quit.