Probably on my last legs at my day job. I am the only one to make a public stand against the management's policy of return to office.
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Probably on my last legs at my day job. I am the only one to make a public stand against the management's policy of return to office.
I'm on my first written warning.
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Finally the company has started their procedure for firing me after increasingly awkward meetings with HR filled with euphemisms and double speak asking me to "please" follow the RTO or they'll have to take more "serious" measures.
This being Europe and all, it will still take them at least one business week to consult and get approval from all relevant parties, which I've taken as vacation just to get away from the bullshit...
I have to say that at the end of it, the prospect of having to work the entirety of my notice period for these assholes is not a welcome thought.
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And finally the grand finale today!
I was fired "with cause" and effective immediately. Some light gaslighting was employed by the HR representative, but what's some gentle abuse between friends.
The only silver lining, if you can call it that, is that I won't have to serve my notice period, at the expense of missing three months of pay.
Hopefully my lawyer will be able to do something about that.
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First time that I had to go through the motions of getting unemployment benefits since I entered the job market in 2004 (jeez, it's been 20 years o.O).
And paradoxically I get less days off being unemployed than I did as a full time employee:
As a "job seeker" I get only 21 days a year that I can be somewhere else than at my residence.
As a full time employee over the years I had 27-30 days off per year where I could be where the hell I wanted.
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@mariusor WTF? That sounds ridiculous. What on earth is it supposed to achieve?
Please tell me you're at least allowed to go to job interviews...
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@FenTiger yes, of course.
The Arbeitsagentur (I'm in Germany) expects unemployed people to let them know if they are traveling but I have no clue how they can check up on me, or what happens if I exceed those 21 days somehow.
I posted it more as a funny bit of bureaucracy than as a "OMG, what are they thinking?" kinda thing.
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The first hearing of my case was held in front of a judge, it was a "mediation hearing" that was meant to get to a settlement before an actual judgement be made.
It was a little demeaning to be honest. In the end the company offered to rescind their termination with cause in favour of termination with three months garden leave and reinstating my stock option access, plus an additional month and a half of severance.
We asked for two months, and then the judge made fun of (I think both parties) because we can't compromise over a couple thousand euro.
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I think I always had a little libertarian streak but this process is getting me a little radicalized against state overreach.
One minor indignity that my case worker expects of me while I am unemployed is to provider them with receipts of my job search.
In good faith when I met for the first time I told them that my first priority will be to do a couple of months of intensive language classes. Having a full-time job for the past ten years never left me enough brain power to make any meaningful advancements. They made sympathetic noises but, in their words, "the first priority must be finding a new job", so never mind what I want.
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@mariusor I have been an unemployment statistic briefly. It was horrible.
And yes, the only thing they are interested in is getting you back into the capitalist slave market. Not your development, not your life or health or anything.
Ticking their boxes for attendance at events (mostly meaningless). Helping their statistics for gettting people off benefit.
I don't know where you are but unemplloyment in the UK is hideously abusive.
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To pile on the intrusions into my business, it appears that my previous employer can also demand proof of my continued job search, because if they are found at fault, they will have to pay my salary for the entire period to the verdict.
However they don't have to do it if I get new employment because you can't legally have two jobs (I expect "full-time" is implied here).
To make matters worse, in the case where I get an offer but for some reason I refuse to take it, my ex-employer is again off the hook for some reason.
My hope is that I misunderstood the explanation from my lawyer, but frankly I would not be surprised.
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@SteveClough this is happening in Germany.
The worst case is that this attitude of mistrust is gaslighting me into believing I am an entitled brat for expecting empathy and compassion when countless people in more desperate situations than mine were able to navigate the system to some sort of success.