• Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    Ask for a day off for radiation treatment because you were diagnosed with terminal cancer. Normally you would plan this outside business hours but you also need to get a second mortgage to be able to pay for treatment as insurance won’t cover it.

    Oh and talk about it out in the open with coworkers before they ask you in their office for ‘the’ conversation.

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    My baby left me and my mule got lame
    Lost my money in a poker game
    A windstorm came just the other day
    Blew the house that I lived in away… …so, boss, what did you want to see me about?

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    While simple, it can honestly be kind of fun to just go in and let them know. When I was recently laid off, it went something like this.

    HR: “I know this might be a shock–”

    Me: “Yeah, you’re letting me go, I know. Here’s my work laptop and badge, I’ve got all my stuff in a box outside, what do I sign? Trying to catch the next train home, so I have like 20 minutes.”

    It totally threw off my boss and the HR lady trying to do their sombre, dignified thing, and was pretty funny to watch.

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      Kinda how I did it.

      Laid off? Why me? You know what, doesn’t matter. Just do your speal and tell me what you need besides my laptop.

      Totally made his brain brake when he got into his “explaining why you” mode to “uhh OK…”

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    My dad just got diagnosed with cancer, I just bought a house, I was at a conference in San Francisco and my boss cornered me before the flight home saying i was being laid off. They literally don’t care.

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        Guy was asking for the rest of the story. Not really that interesting: finished out a month at that company as “handover,” got a month severance pay, used those two months to look for a new job. Got one.

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          I found out I was having my second child when they told me. I found a better job during the in between time so it was fine for me.

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    Oh a gift to the boss for allowing you to have this opportunity would be the cherry on top.

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      and also: you just got diagnosed with cancer but your doctor thinks you’ll be okay because your employer provided health insurance is going to get you the medicine you need to beat the cancer.

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      "Look, before you start, I just want to say I’m so grateful to be offered a management position, and I won’t let you down!

      Now down to business, who do we need to lay off before Q1 budget report? Just give me a name, and I’ll handle it."

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    My dad used to brag about those situations being great cause it meant you had the salesperson that worked for you by the balls and wouldn’t have to care about raises or bonuses for them or treating them well cause you knew they needed the job badly.

    He was a fucking asshole.

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      I had an old friend who showed up to the office naked. He was a local legend for his stunts. He walked in and sat down. The dude behind the desk asked him what the hell he was doing. He said, “Well, y’all are getting ready to fuck me, ain’t ya? I figured I’d go ahead and get undressed.”

      He worked at a mine, so it was all men, and it was the 90s. Everyone knew his sense of humor and everyone loved him.

      He was back at work 3 months later.

      He died from black lung in 2019. The whole damn community was broken up about it. Everyone who talks about him has some crazy story.

      RIP Rolly Poly.

      Edit: Fixed it a bit.

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    They wouldn’t care.

    Just change an important password somewhere, have an important file/tool at home somewhere, or make yourself unmissable in any other way.

    Or at least send a giant corporate mail to everyone stating all the nasty shit the company has done over the years you worked there.

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      Just change an important password somewhere, have an important file/tool at home somewhere, or make yourself unmissable in any other way

      I think this might be classed as industrial sabotage and might be illegal. I’m not a lawyer though.

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      Nah, then they can fire you for unauthorized overtime, working outside of scheduled hours, whatever billshit they want. The you don’t get unemployment benefits.

      At least if you’re laid off, you can collect unemployment which also raises the amount the employer has to pay in premiums.