Is it acceptable that one consulting member on my team just stopped showing up??? It turns out that he joined a new company without resigning from IBM... Because he thinks it's too "difficult to manage the hard conversation with the team". He has collected few more paychecks after he left. Can company technically sue him?
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There is no reason for anyone who WFH and finds a new job to even resign at all. Put all your effort into your new job, of course, but collect 2 paychecks as long as you can get away with it.
You are the Man! I operate the exact same way, I would advise anyone to do the same.
Thank you.
I've been in I.T. a long time and have done the same thing on an employer I thought deserved it. It usually involved an abusive manager. I'm the last person you want to sc--w with.. payback would be coming your way sooner or later.
As for the "blacklisting busy-bodies" out there.. it is usually to no avail. If one has the necessary tech skills in a tech skills deficient market place, then those "burnt bridges" magically get mended - QUICK. I've experienced that time and again.
I operate under "If they don't want you, they damn well don't deserve you". And to blazes with them. Poor attitude?.. No. Correct attitude. And I'm still around plying my skills.
IBM gets what they pay for? In old IBM this was not acceptable. I new IBM, I'm not so certain anymore.
Brilliant
Well ibm pay is comparable to McD so i don't blame anyone if they have a 2nd job.
Cheers to that guy
Cheers to him, utterly brilliant
Smart guy. Every IBMer should have a second or side job. You never know when you will get laid off. But you getting laid is a guarantee at IBM.
From someone who's dealt with this, I would let it go, learn and move on. I dealt with a team member doing this for ~2 weeks when I was at IBM where we did notice immediately when he didn't show up to client but it went on as he lied about being in training, missing flights etc. When he did eventually show up we fired him the second he walked through the door. He reached out a few years later when I was at KPMG so I pinged HR and had him blacklisted because, what do you know, he had applied. Universe has a way of working itself out.