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Why’d you quit your last job? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

got PIPed the instant I returned from work after a week of bereavement for my grandpa's death, then the week after that we had to euthanize our dear sweet dog of 12.5 years so I took another week off to mourn him.

Literally, 8am Monday when I get back, meeting with my manager PIPing me.

Except I didn't quit. I made an effort with the PIP until my manager nitpicked over the dumbest shit. Silently decided it wasn't worth trying to salvage, so I made them fire me.

I still got unemployment and two weeks severance on top of that. If I had accepted the voluntary resignation alternative to the PIP Id be worse off

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    voluntary resignation alternative

    The term is "constructive dismissal." Get them to put it in writing and either a) they'll cave, or b) you got a case that most employment lawyers would take on contingency.

    Most likely is they'd cave.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    It was in writing. I rejected it and went for the PIP instead. And I came out slightly ahead than if I had chosen the resignation, regardless of the specific term.

    I would not have been likely to come out ahead going after them for constructive dismissal.

    What do you think I would have gained from lawyering up? (if I had the spoons to do that anyways, which I didn't being in intense grief)

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