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ChadTower:

Watch that last bit... a lot of companies won't fire someone for underperformance.  They'll manufacture a reason based on conduct just so they don't have to pay unemployment.

ahofle:
I thought unemployment is basically insurance paid by the company while you are employed?  The insurance then kicks in when you are terminated.  At least that's how I understood it to work.  I guess it's also a state thing so it probably varies by state.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 03, 2008, 09:26:18 am ---
Watch that last bit... a lot of companies won't fire someone for underperformance.  They'll manufacture a reason based on conduct just so they don't have to pay unemployment.

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Even in a worst-case-scenario, where the company successfully manufactures a way to get around unemployment (and if he gets the idea that they might have designs to do this, he should look into the state laws regarding recording conversations -- some states only require that one-party know that the conversation is being recorded), the absolute worst thing that can happen is that he gets fired.  That's not 100% meaningless, I suppose, if he wants a good reference.  But if he truly doesn't care whether he gets fired, then it's no skin off his nose.  He's in the same place he'd be if he quit.

ChadTower:

Meh.  I'm not a fan at all of careless bridge burning.  It is short sighted.  Reps really do get around - people move companies and remember you - and you never know he may need that job back in 18 months.

shardian:

--- Quote from: shmokes on April 02, 2008, 11:12:00 pm ---Anyway, don't bail on your job and start eating through your six-month safety-net.  Just really and truly force yourself to stop caring.  Don't just say it.  Mean it.  Now go to work, and start doing the amount of work you think you should be doing, rather than the amount you are being assigned.  Set alarms to go off on your cell phone every half-hour to remind yourself that you don't care.  Tell your boss flatly when you are unwilling to do something.  Tell him you have too much on your plate and he's going to have to find someone else to do it.  Stand your ground.  Absolutely refuse to back down.  Say, "I'm sorry, but I've got too much to do.  I'm not going to lie to you and say I can do it when I can't.  If you want me to do that you're going to have to take X, Y and Z off my plate and find someone else to do those."  When he says that there is no one else, tell him, "I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you.  You're going to have to find someone."

If you do this, you will feel so great.  What is he going to do?  Fire you?  You don't care.  You might even prefer he fire you.  So why not?  Not to mention that if he fires you, the company is going to end up paying for your unemployment, which means you get to stick it to them a little, and you won't eat through so much of your six-month safety net while you find something new. Don't quit.  You have better alternatives.

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I've already been doing the "not care" thing for 6 months. The only thing I really care about is side work. They need those last minute jobs done, and I do them on the side for mucho cash. If I had a job that paid well, I wouldn't have to do side work to supplement my income though.

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