HR Department Sends Former Employee Birthday Card 3 Weeks After He Got Fired

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    r/antiwork u/Grayleus 14h ● Birthday Card from company that laid me off
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    CERTIFIED COLLECTIBLES GROUP P.O. Box 4711 Sarasota, FL 34230 4 34211-139543 TAMPA FL 335 % 16 NOV 2023PM US POSTAGE PITNEY BOWES 024240 $000.63⁰ 0001315701 NOV 16 2023 Happy Birthday
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    Happy Birthday!!! Wishing you a very Special birthday and a wonderful year ahead. We appreciate you so much. Today is your lucky day! Celebrate it! ese Briovanna Mind No Oth Your the Team, Prilip Licia
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    So some quick context, I was a grade finalizer at CGC for their upcoming Toys division. I uprooted my life to move cross country for this job. About 3 weeks ago I was let go. My birthday is in a couple days and after checking my mail today, I got a birthday card their HR dept. I'm not sure if this was intentional but this was so callous and cruel.
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    myusernamesissilly. 12h HR depts have also been known to send birthday cards to dead people, & fire people who take approved time off because they thought it was a "no call no show." Did they put a gift card in there? ... Reply 4866
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    Mean-Marzipan4278 • 13h Tone deaf. You'd think the HR department would know if someone was just recently fired. Reply 4 363 ...
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    44ariah44 13h ● Seems like typical HR incompetence. throw it away and try to forget it ... Reply 635
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    Version Mobile9713 · 14h ● Like rubbing salt on a wound... Not cool. Not cool at all. ... Reply 217
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    fidgetypenguin123 11h ● Personally I'd play dumb. Call them and say you are confused because you thought you were let go 3 weeks ago but just received this card saying they appreciate you and are wondering if that means you are still an employee, especially since you moved far to work for them. Maybe it will make them feel dumb at the very least. ... Reply 232
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    Rogue_Vaper. 11h Post it on social media & tag the company in your post. Express your disgust at the callous way XYZ mocks staff they laid off. An even more effective way is to tag their major clients so they start asking hard questions. No one wants their brand tarnished by association. You won't get any justice but you may just cost some of those HR people their jobs. Reply 4154 ...
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    External-Victory6473 • 2h It was probably automatically generated from some list in a computer. HR probably never looked at it. I wouldn't give it a second thought. They didn't really send you a card. They just went about processing their daily batch mail. Reply Vote
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    Grayleus OP · 2h ● No, the process isn't automated. If you look at the second pic there are actual signatures from their VP of HR, Talent Acquisition Manager, and two of the hiring managers. ... Vote
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    Mental_Mixture8306 • 1h Honestly the managers probably got a stack of cards to sign and they didnt even look at who it was going to. Most likely the list was generated a couple weeks ahead of time, cards signed and sealed, and then dropped in the mail by some admin when the date got closer. They didnt even look at it to see what the names were and make sure to filter out the people that were no longer there. Sloppy and insulting and says a lot about their organization. ... ↑ Vote Vote
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    Dispo_• 12h Reminder that the mail system can take up to a week from one end to the other, and that they possibly mailed it BEFORE they decided to boot you. However, given the current season, that card looks like it would make decent kindling. Good luck. Reply 420 ....
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    unique-name-9035768 12h Good reminder, but OP said they were let go "about 3 weeks ago" while the postmark on the envelope in photo #1 shows it was sent on Nov 16th. 423 + ...

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