Retired Today - Escorted out with package!
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Congratulations Jim. I have always felt that escorting people off the premises was a heartless thing to do. Try not to take it personally; it is no reflection on you. The important thing is that you were able to ER with a wonderful package. Enjoy your freedom!
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We should all be so fortunate. Congratulations and enjoy. The game is finally over and you won!
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Lakewood90712
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They said I would get me the agreement via FedEx which will be sent out today. Hopefully they are not playing another elaborate game. I will scream if that is the case.So you do have an agreement signed by a corporate officer , Correct?
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I would have even let them walk me to my car, too!
Lakewood90712
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Well, you will get un-employment.
I'm afraid you have simply been terminated. Time to seek qualified legal advise. Get a specialist, not "My Cousin Vinny"
Time for BRAT to chime in.
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As a former security guy, it's usually corporate policy to escort people out when they've been separated from the company. It's a catch all policy intended to limit the damage disgruntled employees can create. But they have to do it to everybody or they open themselves to lawsuits. So the good get treated the same way as the potentially bad.
Having said that, I observed over the years that often the policy was ignored in regards to the people that could truly do some damage. Those of us that were root were usually allowed to stay long enough to explain to somebody what we'd been doing for the last decade or so. I saw a couple of instances where someone who's access should have been pulled immediately was able to do some malicious mischief, although I never saw anyone actually do any damage.
Having said that, I observed over the years that often the policy was ignored in regards to the people that could truly do some damage. Those of us that were root were usually allowed to stay long enough to explain to somebody what we'd been doing for the last decade or so. I saw a couple of instances where someone who's access should have been pulled immediately was able to do some malicious mischief, although I never saw anyone actually do any damage.
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harley
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Sounds normal to me. I wouldn't start worrying about it unless I didn't get it by Monday.
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Interesting. I've been at three different mega-corps and only seen people escorted out when they've been fired. At my first mega, I was laid off but they gave us a month or two warning and reasonable severance. No escort or reduction of privileges. At my other two megas, I left voluntarily (they would have liked me to stay) and I also had complete access to my files until I turned in my computer. In fact at my last job, I was writing work emails right up until the very end.
P.S. I love the term "separated". Definitely corporate speak
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Take 1 blue pill , no Alcohol.
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I hope they do follow through. I would be nervous not having anything in writing, however.
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Huge congrats!!
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My last workplace sent the paperwork by fedex, completely normal. And they were way worse than an escort out, they waited till I was driving home from the office and terminated me over the phone. I assumed I was being fired and would be screwed for unemployment, but it turned out it was just their incompetent process and everybody else that was being let go over the next six months was handled the same way. So don't worry, if they told you you are getting your paperwork in the mail, you almost certainly are.
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Congrats Jim! Definitely don't need them anymore. No more worries!
Escorted out. At TI, getting escorted out used to be a badge of honor. People would give their notice that they were going to a competitor and then they would be "escorted" within the hour. Got 2 weeks pay without working. Different for you but the same sentiment.
Escorted out. At TI, getting escorted out used to be a badge of honor. People would give their notice that they were going to a competitor and then they would be "escorted" within the hour. Got 2 weeks pay without working. Different for you but the same sentiment.
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Congratulations! What a deal - I gave four months notice with the understanding that my accrued vacation time (320 hours) would be paid out lump sum; I knew that I was giving up my accrued sick time (720 hours - I never called out sick). A couple of weeks before my last day, they told me they couldn't deviate from the policy of paying out a max of 120 vacation hours. I remember telling my boss that I would have been better off if they had fired me since it was known that past severance packages were pretty generous.
I wouldn't worry to much about the FedEx paperwork - they do that because they don't want you sitting around on-premise reviewing the paperwork and engaging them in a discussion or Q&A over it.....
I wouldn't worry to much about the FedEx paperwork - they do that because they don't want you sitting around on-premise reviewing the paperwork and engaging them in a discussion or Q&A over it.....
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Remember severance is not earned income so it doesn't count against unemployment. I learned that in '08.
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+1 at my mega the only time you were escorted out is if you were fired or left to join a competitor. In my last two resignations, I had access for months since in both cases I knew I was leaving and they knew I was leaving for months but my leaving was very amicable. In fact, in one case at my request they burned a bunch of files I had created over the 12 years I had been there on to a CD (I had promised to keep any company information confidential, which I did but I wanted the templates).
I don't know about that, I got a year's severance and a bonus and I had to wait until the severance and bonus time had expired to apply for unemployment in CO since they counted it as income.
I was laid off about a year ago, they told me several days in advance, and I still have access, as the only IT person they asked me to do some contract work until they shut down the business, I thought it would be a month or two, but it has taken 11 months and I am hoping to get them shutdown in the next couple of weeks so I can get on with the rest of my life.
I have never been escorted, but have seen it done at several places I worked at. As the only IT person, at several small business, you usually know when stuff is happening because the HR person comes to you to shutdown access to the systems. It makes it tough when you know it is going to happen and you can't say anything about it.
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