I’d happily take a severance package just to walk away from this toxic environment. The long hours, mismanagement, and constant chaos have taken their toll, and no paycheck is worth that stress.
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i always wish they had the option to volunteer to be laid-off with severance during the next rif round
@j7 this may depend a bit on the jurisdiction but usually when someone is laid off TR has to pay them severance. Amount of money paid is based on length of service. But the last year or so, in order to save money TR has started putting increasing number of people on PIPs because if you are supposedly underperforming and they fire you because of that they don’t have to pay severance. Or maybe you resign because you don’t enjoy being on PIP. However I came to a mutual termination agreement, and they still had to offer me some of the severance. I don’t know exact formulas for full severance vs mutual termination severance but after 5+ years in the company it was pretty good money. All because I reported my manager for bullying me (putting me on PIP based on nothing was one of those things) and had well documented evidence which I kept waiving at HR. Negotiations took a couple of months but it was well worth it. And best of all was that they didn’t know I had another offer lined up.
@gc OMG yes, that team is awful lol. You can totally see that happening there too meanwhile HR just covers it all up. And funny enough, in some teams and offices there’s suddenly no diversity at all lol.
@fx Haha I’m confused by this lol can you actually disclose the severance amounts you are referring to?
Honestly, it really feels like they’re keeping incompetent, cheap people with no education in the field, and those are the ones getting promoted and pushing out the good ones. Morale is terrible, and it seems like HR is just allowing it to happen.
Let me guess, you work in Service Management?
This is an understatement. The current management structure in Corporates is starting to resemble that show The View. Lots of chirping, knee je-k emotional reactions without a basic understanding of the products and business processes.
I understand Corporate America is pushing DEI, but TR took this one way too far.
Just leave. I did. It’s so much better on the other side.
Oh and if you feel the PIP is unjustified and based on nothing you can always get HR involved. They might offer mutual termination agreement and then you still get some of the severance. But have evidence. And threaten with lawyers. The threat needs to feel real for them to offer the money.
The environment is terrible. They keep promoting unqualified people into “lead” and management roles, and once they’re in the majority, they push away the truly talented ones just to protect their own positions. I see skilled, capable people being driven out, across several departments, design, engineering while those with no real ability stay behind guarding themselves. I also hear of many being put on PIPs.