Hold on and wait for the severance package. It’s coming anyway.
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Good luck with that. My manager is just writing people up to fire them with cause - and then replacing them with offshore labor.
@a8 exactly! This typically signals financial strain.
I hung in there for the package and it was the best thing I’ve ever done! Unemployment is a far cry from a good salary but I took that time to reassess my future and enjoyed my life. Even if they are mean to you, you know there’s an end and since you know what a bad company it is to work for with terrible management and backstabbers you just don’t take it personally.
I told my manager - please move me to the top of the RIF list. After 24 years it is the best thing you could do for us all. But he was on PTO
Sure but you can maybe get a job now. If the market tanks anymore for job searching (especially in Twin Cities) you are gonna be sweating your a-s off searching all spring, fall, and winter 2026.
The 401k cuts are the alarms going off on the ship balcony. The hull is taken on water and this clunker is sinking.
Congress on both sides of the aisle wants to take insurers and PBMs to the woodshed.
I'm retiring in April. Can't help but dream of ways to "encourage" them to RIF me before then.
Quitting is just giving them exactly what they want.