"Who the hell is sending those emails!?"
June 20, 2018 8:49 PM   Subscribe

 
As a full time employee, [my previous manager] had been laid off. He was to work from home as a contractor for the duration of a transition. I imagine due to the shock and frustration, he decided not to do much work after that. Some of that work included renewing my contract in the new system.

“Shock and frustration”. Heh.
posted by mr_roboto at 9:06 PM on June 20, 2018 [3 favorites]


If I read this correctly, he continued to work at the job site over a ten calendar day period and did not mention any formal compensation from his 'employer' for his work during this period. One hopes an employment lawyer has read the post and seen an opportunity.
posted by mwhybark at 9:28 PM on June 20, 2018 [4 favorites]


The conclusion, that the author found a new job because they were afraid of "what would have happened if I had actually made a mistake in this company", doesn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of the story.

Also, the coworkers, who for some reason treated him differently afterwards, seem to be dicks.
posted by meowzilla at 10:02 PM on June 20, 2018 [1 favorite]


yeah, i don't think i exactly understood the end of this story, it sounds like this guy had a crappy couple weeks though...
(i am a tech person and am trying to imagine any recruiter i've ever worked with calling me at 7am to make sure i'm ok)
posted by capnsue at 11:38 PM on June 20, 2018 [1 favorite]


I thought this was going to be a dystopian science fiction story. Turns out it was just a dystopian story.


My wife has been dealing with frustration over a job transfer because it's hard to get in touch with the necessary people. I can't imagine how frustrating a situation like this would be.
posted by A Bad Catholic at 2:43 AM on June 21, 2018 [1 favorite]


Looks like someone forgot to fill out their 27B/6.
posted by the painkiller at 3:20 AM on June 21, 2018 [12 favorites]


The conclusion, that the author found a new job because they were afraid of "what would have happened if I had actually made a mistake in this company", doesn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of the story.

I don't agree. I work in a very different role and environment but my general expectation is that if I do my job reasonably that I will continue to be employed, subject to reasonable processes regarding redundancy etc. I work in the UK so I do have better job security than many US workers but I still think most people expect not to suddenly be fired if there are no performance issues even there.

If I discovered that my employer was such a minefield of automated bureaucracy that even a senior level director couldn't stop "the system" firing me despite her and my manager strenuously objecting and this lead to me losing 3 weeks of pay and being escorted off the premises by security guards then I would also be looking for a new job.
posted by *becca* at 4:11 AM on June 21, 2018 [18 favorites]


Good lord. I complain about all the odd one-off manual processes at my job and wish there was more standardization about so many things... but at least I know this would never happen. There are just too many points in the chain where an actual person has to handle one of the steps.
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:11 AM on June 21, 2018


I understand the coworkers a bit. If you get escorted out by security, the understanding is that you Did Something Wrong. It’ll taint your reputation.

When I worked at the Big C, one of the people in my department got escorted out by security - all his syuff was still there but that wasn’t unheard of. He was taken outside, handed to the police, and taken off. Three days later, he came back, but we were a bit leery. (Turned out he had been arrested for nonpayment of child support, and the escorting had management looking at him and seeing that he was reassigning cases he didn’t want to do to other people, and his productivity was something like 20% of anyone else’s.)
posted by mephron at 4:30 AM on June 21, 2018


If you get escorted out by security, the understanding is that you Did Something Wrong. It’ll taint your reputation.

There are companies out there, though, who use security to escort-out any laid-off employee, period. The claim is that it's to avoid the employee making a scene or to make sure they leave directly. Generally speaking, you leave your personal stuff behind and have to arrange to come back on the weekend to retrieve it.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:51 AM on June 21, 2018 [3 favorites]


Poor Mr. Buttle!
posted by Construction Concern at 5:10 AM on June 21, 2018 [3 favorites]


How can this be real?!
posted by Omnomnom at 6:24 AM on June 21, 2018


that was horrifying to read.
posted by biggreenplant at 6:43 AM on June 21, 2018


I can't tell if this situation is better or worse than how Initech treated poor old Milton.
posted by mhum at 9:51 AM on June 21, 2018


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