I am fairly sure that I am being laid off with other Sr. Engineers tomorrow and need some ideas. Basically, I saw a calendar mistake by HR, so oops!

Meh. It’s gonna suck for a bit, but whatevers. Life is more important than a shit job. :)

    • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      25·
      2 years ago

      Exit interviews aren’t box checking exercises, they exist to give the company a heads up if the employee seems like they’re disgruntled and might try to sue. Always skip them, it only benefits the company that laid you off, nobody else.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        301·
        2 years ago

        Exit inerviews can be valuable and beneficial if the exit is on good terms all around.

        I left my last job for a better-paying position elsewhere, but I still loved my old job and coworkers. It’s still the best job I ever had.

        I couldn’t pass up a 50% raise and they couldn’t match it. No hard feelings or bruised egos. It’s just how things work out.

        Having an honest conversation with HR about what worked and didn’t from an employee perspective with zero stakes for either of us was productive and informative.

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      2 years ago

      Does it help your co workers?

      If you got fired, no, probably not.

      But if you quit then you can leave them a few clues as to why you’re leaving and how they might avoid losing more staff. That can help the people you left behind.

      • Bonehead@kbin.social
        8·
        2 years ago

        But if you quit then you can leave them a few clues as to why you’re leaving and how they might avoid losing more staff.

        The reason I’m quitting is because they didn’t pick up the clues that I was looking to leave, and I don’t want to help them avoid losing more staff because of it. The people I left behind should take the hint if they were smart.

        • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Just because I might be leaving doesn’t mean I want it keeping being a sucky workplace. Ideally I’d move on to something better for me, and people left behind might get an improvement as well.

        • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          2 years ago

          Some companies in my experience do do exit interviews for people who are fired. This makes more sense when you realize exit interviews are mostly to give the company a heads up if they think you might try to sue them.

        • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          At I place I worked they had a few useful people leave in a short time span. All left amicably. They took feedback from the exit interviews on board, and now they are redoing a bunch of the procedures to try and improve the way the workplace functions.

          Keeping more people from quitting is helping the company.