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I am fairly sure that I am being laid off with other Sr. Engineers tomorrow and need some ideas. Basically, I saw a calendar mistake by HR, so oops!

Meh. It's gonna suck for a bit, but whatevers. Life is more important than a shit job. :)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does it help your co workers?

If you got fired, no, probably not.

But if you quit then you can leave them a few clues as to why you're leaving and how they might avoid losing more staff. That can help the people you left behind.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But if you quit then you can leave them a few clues as to why you’re leaving and how they might avoid losing more staff.

The reason I'm quitting is because they didn't pick up the clues that I was looking to leave, and I don't want to help them avoid losing more staff because of it. The people I left behind should take the hint if they were smart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just because I might be leaving doesn't mean I want it keeping being a sucky workplace. Ideally I'd move on to something better for me, and people left behind might get an improvement as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well sure, because they don't do exit interviews for people who got fired.

I know it can feel good to speak your mind, and in an ideal world it would make some impact. It should make some impact. They should listen to people who leave. But they don't. Because it's not the purpose of the exercise. They don't really care about your feedback. They care about the optics only. Remember HR is there to protect the company, not advocate for workers.

By all means if you want to waste your time go ahead and do an exit interview. There's not much risk or harm in doing one (unless you make a complete ass out of yourself). But it's really just there to prop up the thin veneer that HR and the corporate lawyers want businesses to hide behind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some companies in my experience do do exit interviews for people who are fired. This makes more sense when you realize exit interviews are mostly to give the company a heads up if they think you might try to sue them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That makes sense. Never heard of it, but I believe you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At I place I worked they had a few useful people leave in a short time span. All left amicably. They took feedback from the exit interviews on board, and now they are redoing a bunch of the procedures to try and improve the way the workplace functions.

Keeping more people from quitting is helping the company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

OK, that's good to hear. I think the situation sounds a little bit unique, but not all companies are incapable of learning.