people think I died
receives flowers
Checks note that came with them
“Get well soon.”
Anon quits their job
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe they didn’t actually think you died, and you’re just making bold assumptions.
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not wise to make fun of zombies.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That reminds me when I missed the first day of teaching because of a really bad flu causing me to lose track of the dates, I got a very concerned call from my advisor who thought I offed myself. Apparently not too uncommon for underpaid adjunct professors, unfortunately.
Anamnesis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When I was in grad school I knew a guy who just simply didn’t teach for half the semester. No contact with students, no classes held, just didn’t show. He gave everyone a passing grade on the midterm and came back halfway through. No explanation. He was not fired. Of course, like the rest of us, he was grossly underpaid and didn’t have health insurance. I guess they get what they get if they’re gonna treat us like cogs, right?
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sometimes I wonder how people get away with stuff like this. I recall that story from Spain, I think, where a guy was getting a paycheck for like 20 years but not working at all. I guess they did a reorg and his new ‘boss’ didn’t know about him and he never got work assigned and he just stopped showing up…for years.
It has to be a pointless job to start with, right? If I just didn’t work at my job for a week it would probably get noticed. If I no-showed completely it certainly would.
I’d probably be given the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks if I just stopped producing work. I could maybe make it a month before someone said something about my performance but only because sometimes the things I work on take a while to come to fruition. And missing meetings isn’t uncommon because of conflicts/being super busy.
Id probably also get the benefit of the doubt if I no-showed too. But after a two days they’d call my wife or come by my house, or send the police department to my house to check on me.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This is advanced ghosting.
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s proactive.
I ghost people before they even don’t give me their number.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
3 month bullshit for resign? What kind of work contract is that?
Draghetta@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let me introduce you to Europe
oce@jlai.lu 2 months ago
To be fair this is a counterpart of being harder to get fired compared to some USA states. It makes the economy less fast to adjust but it makes people’s life less stressful.
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Depends on the country. Where I live, the maximum is 30 days, unless both the employer and the employee agree on a different period.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know what are you talking about. In my country the standard is two weeks and max one month in special cases. I’ve participated in the hiring of multiple people from different European countries and they never asked for more than one month to join in, except when they wanted to relocate.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have 6 months in Germany, all managers at my company get this. I find it a bit too much, but it can usually be negotiated
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
India too.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It is actually really nice.
It works both ways, if they fire you, you still have a job for 3 months at least. Giving you plenty of time to find a new job. You also get half a day per week (paid) to use for soliciting other companies.
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Maybe this is a difference between countries, but is fired for cause and laid off treated different? Like I can understand and appreciate the protections if your position is eliminated or something. In the US we have unemployment insurance where you can get I think 3/4 of your normal pay if laid off. But if you get fired for cause then you’re on your own.
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 months ago
Thats how it works in apparently most of europe. In poland for example its based on your tenure. With 3 month being the max after you work there for more than 3 years. If you are not important enough for the company and want to start your new work earlier it can be negotiated down i think.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I ran away from my site like this one day. I was working as an Engineer Trainee. No one gave a damn. Eventually, I returned after a month or so. Resigned in less than one month after returning. Man, I hate this country with a passion where you are not even treated as a human being, but as a machine.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You were able to leave your job for a month, come back and continue like nothing happened, then were able to resign a month after that…and you are saying you weren’t treated like a human?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, that company is really tolerant. I’m guessing OP could’ve negotiated a sabbatical with people that lax.
Fox@pawb.social 2 months ago
Average .ml take
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Which country? (I would guess Mali since you’re using a .ml domain… 😉)
r00ty@kbin.life 2 months ago
Many years ago, a woman that worked at the same place, just didn't turn up one day. I think they (the closest thing we had to HR at the time) let this slide for a week, then called her. She just said "Oh, I didn't work to work there any more".
I don't think they pursued it any further and let it at that.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I just don’t understand that mentality. You burn a bridge, when you could just send an email or something saying you quit and keep the possibility of coming back sometime open. Or if your boss actually liked you, you could have gotten a recommendation, but instead decided to make their life suck.
Just send an email saying you quit, it’s really not that hard.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You burn a bridge
Yeah, that’s kind of the point
keep the possibility of coming back sometime open
If I wanted to work there I wouldn’t be quitting, especially not just dipping out
Or if your boss actually liked you, you could have gotten a recommendation
Usually people doing this aren’t in that situation, being on good terms with someone usually means you don’t just vanish on them
instead decided to make their life suck.
The vast majority of times this is, again, the point
r00ty@kbin.life 2 months ago
I thought it was weird at the time. The contracts had a notice period in, and it's not like many US states where employment is at-will. The employer is definitely required to give notice (albeit they can send you home and just pay you the notice period, which many do). So I suspect they could have gone after her for that, if they wanted to.
Likely they considered it not worth pursuing, though.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just show up at your own wake like Beerfest and everything will be fine.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Even better would be to wear a disguise and speak at your own funeral
Gork@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Free flowers! 🌻
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Florists hate this one trick.
KellysNokia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They love the increased sales
Rookwood@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Burnout
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yesterday, I (sort of) learned the phrase “implication arrows,” from which I learned that I should assume that this story is not true, though the arrows… Imply that it’s true. I still don’t really get it.
Anyway, I’ve never held a job where the employer would do more than the bare minimum required by law if I disappeared. Certainly not so much as contacting my family unless there were extenuating circumstances like me verifiably disappearing mid shift. I suspect this is true for most people.
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve always been skeptical of greentext (and most internet) stories, it’s just more fun to suspend one’s disbelief.
I’m just still confused about the concept of “implication arrows,” heh.
MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone 2 months ago
As a manager I would definitely contact an employee’s emergency contacts and then request a welfare check if one of my team dropped off the face of the earth. Medical incidents happen and a couple of the team live alone that I know of.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In that case, you sound like a good manager to have.
I like my current managers, but I think if I stopped showing I’d eventually just stop getting paid. There was a period where I wasn’t attending daily meetings because I hadn’t received the invitation to them. Eventually I made a comment to my manager that I was glad the current contract didn’t require a ridiculous number of meetings and he said something like “what are you talking about? There are daily meetings. We just thought you were out sick or something.”
SsxChaos@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
R.i.p anon your green text will be remembered
punkwalrus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had an assistant who didn’t really need the job, but her parents forced her to have one. She was the youngest, and only girl, of a family of 5 siblings. All her older brothers worked at the race track that their family owned, and she was dating someone they didn’t approve of. I liked her boyfriend, he seemed friendly and soft-spoken, but her folks were like “if you’re going to date whom you want, you better have a job and live on your own.” Well, one day, she got mad because I asked her to work a shift she didn’t want to. So she simply didn’t show up, which really fucked me over. So I called her up, pretty pissed. No answer.
She didn’t show up for 3 days. So I fired her for job abandonment. She didn’t really need the job, right? Her parents owned a racetrack.
A week later, her folks called me, and asked if I’d seen her. No, she didn’t show up for work ever again. They panicked. “OMFG WE DON’T KNOW WHERE SHE IS!” They immediately assumed her BF kidnapped and/or murdered her. The police were called, an investigation was opened up. Her BF’s address showed he’d moved away. I had to sit with the police and go through an interrogation about her last whereabouts. She became a missing person, and once a week for two months, her parents called and asked if I had heard anything. The detective called with more questions. Then her car was found in an impound lot: it had been abandoned and looted in a New Jersey parking garage. Then the calls petered off and stopped.
A year went by, and I assumed the worst.
One day, one of the employees in another store in the mall told me he saw her with her BF. I didn’t believe them, but then other people said that they’d seen her, and corroborated some stories she told them. Apparently, she had been planning to run away for some time, and just ran away with her BF and went NC with her family. That didn’t work out so well, because both had trouble finding jobs and then their car got carjacked. Both of them were forced to return home, and her parents were forced to reconcile that she was never going to leave her BF.
I was pretty pissed, though, that I thought she was dead.
ettyblatant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I worked with someone who did this. It was the HR person. She just didn’t show up one day, didn’t answer her phone or door. For a solid week. After a wellness check by the police, it was revealed that she was fine, just couldn’t go back in to work because she hated her job so much.
I was young, and it was a shitty grocery chain filled with shitty management and shitty customers. I 100% thought she had killed herself, or skipped town for some other awful reason. It was a relief to hear she was OK. Fuck that store.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Are you ok yourself? Do you still work there?
You sound like a good person, wish you two were friends so she might not be as depressed.
ettyblatant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am in a much better environment! This was about 10 years ago, and that particular store closed. I also ghosted that job. They had been harassing my trans coworker friend so we just stopped showing up. They did NOT try to call me :)
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This guy fucks, what a kind soul
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
what if we organized the workers but instead of striking we all just don’t show up and gaslight the regional management into thinking everything’s fine