Employee Finds Out They're About to Be Laid Off, Finds Best Ways To Make Their Employer Uncomfortable

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    Font - B. r/antiwork u/Timor1ra 13h 3 35 05 8 Getting laid off tomorrow. They don't know I know. What should I do to make this as uncomfortable as possible for my employer?
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    Font - ZackyGood 11h ● 2 Awards Bring in cupcakes and tell everyone that this is the first day you've felt happy in months/years. Or... Start betting co-workers that you can get fired by the end of the day. + Reply 7.9k
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    Rectangle - Chocolat Mint Chipmunk . 9h Yes! Hey Joe, you owe me 20 bucks! As you are getting escorted out. 41.5k ... + n
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    Product - Crab-Man88. 3h Cupcakes cuz you're celebrating closing on the new house yesterday ... + 1.4k D1sp4tcht 3h And you just found out your expecting twins. 924 +
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    Font - Yo_Just Scrolling_Yo. 12h My husband & most of his co-workers knew they were getting an announcement that their dept was being replaced by the dept of a company in Canada & they would be training the takeover people. As soon as the boss told them, he went straight to HR and said, I'm 58 years old and I'll never work professionally again. They told him to come in tomorrow and they would have a severance pkg for him. They did give him a nice severance but what they didn't know he already ha
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    Font - Latter-Skill4798 - 11h Ouch. This really makes the case for "stay packages." My brother's company knew they were closing their American branch and gave them a special package to stay through a certain period. It worked out well for all + 2.8k
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    Font - naruda1969. 9h Training the replacements is the biggest F-You. Never would I ever agree to this unless there was a significant severance package. 41.1k +
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    Font - MoonCricketeer • 12h Tell everyone else ahead of time so everyone shows up pissed off ... + Reply 5.7k
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    Font - BootlegOP 10h ● That may backfire and make them happy G + 1.1k Trick-Report-8041 - 9h If it makes them happy you don't want to work there anyway 4592 +
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    Rectangle - Sloppy Meathole. 12h Whatever you do, don't give them an excuse to say you abandoned your job or otherwise quit, or you may not be eligible for unemployment. ... + Reply 8.8k 8.8k
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    Rectangle - AMINI ASEL & MOshka 11h ● 13 Awards He could also come out of the closet to his boss. That firing is a lawsuit waiting to happen. 49.7k +
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    Font - FriedSticks 2014. 11h Diabolical, I love it 2.6k
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    Font - FurrAnd Loaving . 8h 1 Award Mine was more petty, but I got laid off from a job a while back. I was working for a fairly well-known university that had just gotten into A LOT of legal trouble. I was one of the newest hires, so I was one of the first to go. My managers had me lead the way when they walked me out, so instead of taking the elevator, I had them follow me down seven flights of stairs. 43.2k +
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    Font - Fuzzy-Can-8986 - 13h (S 4 Awards Take a personal day. Get paid to put off their plans and you can use that time polishing your resume, applying for jobs, and generally just fitting some "me" time into your day. Then do it again the next day until you run out of personal days. + Reply 12.1k
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    Font - Timor1ra OP 12h ● 1 Award I have unlimited PTO. I wonder how long they'd let me disappear until they realized shenanigans were afoot. juror94. 12h S 1 Award Why not find out? + + 10.7k 4.9k
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    Rectangle - Ghstfce• 12h 2 Awards What are they going to do? Fire him? 4.2k +
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    Font - Point Forward. 11h I wonder if it might change the firing from a "no cause" to a "cause" though and lose them some potential unemployment? Ghstfce 11h ● + 41.1k 1.1k I'm not sure that using PTO available to you is "cause" though. Could also visit your doctor one day you're off and get a note saying you were experiencing "exhaustion". 1.2k
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    Font - BoofJohnson • 12h If this is the case, just "get really sick" and job hunt until they stop paying you. They are laying you off to save money, so the worst thing you can do is probably waste thier money. ... 1.8k
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    Font - forever_29_ish. 11h I was once living 2 blocks from my job, finally decided to sell my car because I didn't need it and the monthly parking fee at my apartment was money I could have used in other/better ways. Told my boss, she actually helped me set up the Auto Trader ad and get it published. I left for lunch the next day to go meet a prospective buyer (I was pretty confident that was going to be THE Sale). At 3pm that same day, she told me "they" had decided to eliminate my position, bu
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    Font - AutomaticRisk3464. 8h She helped you sell ur car then fired you..btw they have like a months notice when positions are going out like that ... + G 389 forever_29_ish. 7h I ended up not selling it, but yeah, she encouraged me to sell it then BAM! I knew she knew long before. HR had no idea what happened - they told me she said I had decided to leave with no notice. They gave me several options to keep working there, but as long as she was still employed there, I'd have to deal with her in
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    Font - bkorn08 13h 2 Awards Brag about a baby on the way and you just closed on a new house, and your sig other lost their job.. hell of a week.. ... + Reply 20.2k
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    Font - Timor1ra OP. 13h 1 Award Honestly this would be the most effective way to ensure they suffer haha. Poor babies "eliminating positions" because they can't run a business + 11.1k
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    Font - illucio 12h S 4 Awards Boss: "Hey can we talk for a moment". You: "Oh yeah, but can you just give me a minute. I need to call my wife, we just closed on a new house and her work just laid her off all while we just found out were having a baby. I just need to check up on her since it's been a hard week on her with all of this happening at once". ... + 12.3k
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    Font - flyguydip 12h ● 1 Award "Especially since my testicular cancer diagnosis. Since this is now my last kid ever, I'm really gonna need this job to raise them right. It might be my last shot." + 3.8k
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    Product - S LoserAtLinMilPlaza • 13h 8 Awards Confide in your boss that you have been in a dark place and coming in to work has really saved your life. You don't know what you would do if you didn't have this in your life. Invite them over for a celebration of you moving forward with your life in a healthy way. Friend request them on fb too. Reply 12.5k Timor1ra OP. 12h + 1 Award I work in a very "toxic positivity" kind of environment rn and this would CRUSH them. Excellent ... 10.1k
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    Font - schlockabsorber. 12h My wife, when told she was being let go, first asked to hear it from her sup's sup. Once in the office of the manager, she asked to have it in writing. They weren't prepared, and she sat in their office for 45 minutes, not looking at her phone or anything, just sitting there, waiting while someone drafted the letter. + Reply 1.2k

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