• TheDubz87@lemmy.world
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    Reassigning people into jobs that they hate in hopes that they quit, to avoid paying severance packages.

    We have a guy at the company I work for that just went through this. They did away with his division, reassigned him to a new department where you’re on call 24/7 working holidays and weekends. He jumped ship to us, but because they didn’t fire him, he got no payout because he wasn’t let go.

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      They did away with his division, reassigned him to a new department where you’re on call 24/7 working holidays and weekends

      He might have a case for constructive dismissal; he might want to talk with an employment lawyer. Constructive dismissal can include “Making unreasonable changes to an employees’ working hours or place of work”.

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        Maybe, I’ll bring that up to him. But they’ve done this to every department. Project managers are now trying to handle way more than they should and techs are either green as grass or completely overwhelmed with work.

        They actually pay us now for the services that they did away with within their own company (whatever sense that makes), so he basically has the same job, just with us. We work with this company closely so we knew him pretty well already and honestly we were happy to bring him on. No training required lol I think he just wanted to get out before his life got turned upside down.

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      tale as old as time. we’ll make your life a living hell until you quit just so we don’t have to pay to fire you.

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        I would take so much advantage of that.

        Come in late, don’t do much, let people steal stuff, take a nap at work, and do all kinds of stuff until they rather fire me than keep me around doing to “worst kind of jobs”.

        And if they sue, sue them right back since that stuff is illegal.

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      Reassigning people into jobs that they hate in hopes that they quit, to avoid paying severance packages.

      IBM technique.

      Nice.

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      I didn’t get any severance because I was “laid off” after I became disabled. Probably should have fought that, but…I had just become disabled.

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      When I did sales management in the late 80s to mid 90s, we called them “penalty boxes.” To get a manager to quit, you reassign then to a store or location that is either guaranteed to be soul sucking, high crime, or otherwise not profitable enough to make commission or bonuses. They do that in education as well, like send teachers to difficult schools to get them to quit and skirt union rules.