Timeline for Getting laid off soon with a new job offer. Take severance pay?
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/1325996815746027521 | ||
| Nov 7, 2020 at 5:19 | comment | added | spickermann | @stealthmanz. The monetary outcome can be the same. But offering to leave right now gives you control over your last day in the old company and when you can start the new job while still getting some money.. | |
| Nov 7, 2020 at 0:30 | comment | added | stealthmanzan23 | I'm sure I will be laid off by X date. @spickermann wouldn't that just be the same as offering severance? Or are you suggesting it's cheaper for the company to pay me off if I leave on my own accord? | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 16:50 | answer | added | Ertai87 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 15:30 | comment | added | spickermann | Is it an option to be pro-active? Go to your boss and have a chat like "Hey, there are rumors that the company needs to laid people. I would like to offer you to leave the company immediately without making any trouble when I get a payoff of X in return." | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 9:05 | comment | added | Laurent S. | So you know for sure you'll get dismissed in December. Are you sure you will be free by this date or will you have to work a few weeks more ? | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 7:27 | comment | added | guest | @Nelson: Yes, but this is not in question, right? The user knows they get laid off e.g in beginning of December and want to start the new job in beginning of January instead of December, no? | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 7:23 | comment | added | Nelson | @guest You usually have to be still employed to be "laid off". If you quit, then it isn't being laid off, and there will be no severance. | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 6:46 | comment | added | guest | What are the conditions of the severance pay? Do they pay you only from when you get laid until when you start a new job? Do you have to tell them you got a new job? | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 2:16 | comment | added | stealthmanzan23 | @employee-X is correct. If I quit I'm not getting "laid off", I'm resigning. I guess the core of my question is - is having a lay off on my "record" worth getting the severance pay? | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 23:09 | comment | added | employee-X | @Stealthmanz If your teammates are getting laid off in rounds, could you ask to get laid off sooner? :-) But, two weeks sounds like a normal notice period, anyway. | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 23:06 | comment | added | employee-X | @Ertai87 I think the issue is, if they take the new job now, they will not be employed at the current company "at the right time" to get laid off. In other words, OP would be terminating the employment (resigning), rather than the current company terminating it (via layoffs). | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 23:05 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 22:11 | answer | added | NDEthos | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 21:57 | comment | added | Ertai87 | What do you mean by "severance"? Severance is usually paid by the terminating company to the employee as an appreciation of their service. If your current company will only pay you your severance if you don't have another job, then it's not their business if you have a new offer or not; tell them you don't have one and take the severance, and also take the new job. Unless that is legally not allowed for some reason that makes no sense to me. | |
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| Nov 5, 2020 at 21:25 | answer | added | Old_Lamplighter | timeline score: 7 | |
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