I'm done with this place, might as well try and save somebody else's job in the process of leaving.
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It really depends on your relationship with your immediate manager and their position. I know several people who have successfully volunteered to be part of the next lay-off. If you have a good relationship and you trust them, ask, it doesn't hurt.
So I think the original poster was volunteering to take a severance package NOT saying he/she would quit. In the UK they actually have laws in place the allow this and if they don’t get the number of volunteers they need they lay people off. Unfortunately employees in the US aren’t that protected.
Yeah, sorry, no. First, there are too many vendettas and scores to settle, and there are more than a few up in here who seem to take a perverse pleasure in doing it. Secondly, like others have said, can't get the unemployment checks if you quit voluntarily, and in this environment, ending up on the dole is fast becoming a possibility. Best to stick it out and then collect severance + last check.
The answer is no. I know several that have inquired about this to their manager and HR in the past in Brookfield.
Unemployment does not work if you quit voluntarily. So stick with hell. Also the Georgia office, while magnificent, can trace EVERY SINGLE DIME you have made for about 20 years so do not lie about anything ever. THEY KNOW. Been there, done that.
Well if you banking on unemployment people have been wait 7 weeks on getting a payment and when the payment do start rolling in it will not be a lump sum drop like in past years. It will still be 2 payments you will just be in the hole for the other weeks.
In a normal cycle where you have something lined up that could be a sound idea. But right now? Unless you are independently wealthy or about to retire I would milk every last week you can get.
There’s also no guarantee they wouldn’t lay you off AND someone you’d want to save.
Careful what you wish for.
what unemployment sounds good to you right about now?