Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off. It’s putting those people in an awkward spot::Big Tech wants to bring back some of the workers it laid off. The decision might come down to how a company handled the layoffs.

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If they no longer wanted you because investors told them to get rid of you, why would they care about you if you rejoined?

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      If you’re not desperate for a job, and found it at least tolerable before, then I’d say ask for an outrageous salary increase. Worst-case, you stay at your new job, best case you go back to your old job but making more money.

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        Meh, with that higher pay you’ll be first on the chopping block the next time investors get antsy anyway. Better to just stick with the new place.

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            Hahahahaha. No. Not at the working class level, anyways. At the executive level, maybe someones.

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              Two things I find disturbing here: first, that such contracts are apparently impossible; second, that they are so very impossible that you find it funny.

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            I know people who were given retention bonuses… basically, don’t quit in the next year while we work on this big project and you’ll get an up front bonus worth 20% of your salary. This is the company saying the employee is key to the success of the project. And these aren’t knew unknown people, seasoned folks with a decade in. Yeah… they got laid 2 months ago. Not sure how that works with the bonus. If they quit they have to pay it back… laid off, who knows.