I was in run 2 2025 LEAP, so I got my first sign-on bonus payment August 15th, and the second one October 10th. I have another offer that wants me to start ASAP, and I, like everyone else, fu--ing hate it here. My employment agreement specifies that if I quit before one year after payment, I have to pay Fidelity back. Is there a way to sign up to be laid off early? If I resign right after August 15th, I would only lose the second payment but get to keep the first, right?
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@rx not everyone, just you, which is a low bar. Now take your pills and go back to bed dinosaur before you get your feelings hurt some more.
must be nice to be young again and think your shyte don't stink. One year in and you're smarter than everyone else. Impressive.
@pz and yet you're doing the same thing. Such a little jealous snowflake :)
@my good for you! And yet you're on here still talking about Fidelity? Got nothing better to do?
Anyone who thinks they are milking the company is either a mo--n or doing exactly what the other posters are saying and taking advantage of their peers, probably both.
People like @jv are the problem. They're so caught up in the lies that they're too blind to realize they're getting sc--wed like everyone else so instead they resort to gaslighting, ad hominem nonsense, or shifting of the goalpost. Notice they can never provide any facts to support their claim or any logical retort to the countless arguments proving them wrong or even a coherent thought of their own. For all the tough talk they're also the biggest whiners in the company. Lots of acting tough telling those who speak out to leave but as soon as you do they're boo hooing in the next team meeting because they don't have someone to dump their work on anymore.
Oh and @jv, when I left Fidelity I took a position a level up and with a huge pay raise. Two years later I was promoted and got another big pay raise. All while still getting to work from home. Who is the one getting milked again?
@dw why did you join the firm? Are you that inept you can't discern if the promises of unicorns and golden paved streets your recruiter spun would come true? Welcome to the real world in a large corporation. Stop blaming the so-called dinosaurs who figured out how to milk the Fido cow better than you can
Just get the heck of the this dinosaur ridden place, which is what have been trying. All the dinosaurs prey on the people like us and bring their cousins, friends and kids in here, while they keep us rooted tied to tasks/ lay us off from grade 4's and 5's roles. Good riddance, go and conquer OP. Think long term
@dx - you are 100% right about people commenting that others have not "been there long enough". Blocking happens all the time and it's because those in charge are jealous or afraid that the person or applicant is smarter than them.
@dw 100%!!! Former LEAP who left two years ago. I got so sick of dinosaurs with fancy titles that would dump their work on me because they had no clue what they were doing but then they'd block me from getting my own fancy title because I hadn't been there long enough. VPs saying it's a tech company but they can't list a single innovation. If the offer is good OP take the hit and run. You won't regret it.
Maybe if the VPs (and everybody else) wasn't so appallingly incompetent I wouldn't be trying to leave after a single year.
We have trillions of dollars of assets under management, can't you guys just take an online java course or something? How are you all this bad?
Paid to join and to leave.
@OP boo hoo. How about using that sharp mind of yours to read your agreement.
@br maybe if the young crowd didn't contribute more in two years than you can in ten
So do all LEAP wunderkids get 'sign on bonuses' ? Well well well. Now I understand better the sense of entitlement and delusional expectation that they'll be VPs in 2 years. Good to know
you got a signing bonus?
Paying to leave is so ironic.
no advice just agreeing that fidelity fvcking svcks