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Re: Very OT: (long) Employment decisions. Saabnet wisdom? Posted by EGD [Email]  (#663) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from EGD) on Sat, 25 Apr 2015 08:47:32
In Reply to: Very OT: (long) Employment decisions. Saabnet wisdom?, bender  [Profile/Gallery]
, Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:57:33
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Take the severance package and move on. Be professional and courteous in your exit and do not flame anyone on any social media site -- that kind of stuff will follow you.
I'm about to punch out after just under 27 years with the same company and this has been brewing for a few years but the final straw was working for an incompetent manager with ethical issues (verbal and sexual harassment of his admin, hiding company assets behind classified walls, boorish behavior to employees in public, absolutely not knowing what his technical limitations are, taking credit for the work others performed, rating employees to fit a flawed distribution metric, ad nauseum). Never, ever had a bad performance review in 35 years of engineering and management until this past period but I just got one and, in a weird way, I'm almost honored by it coming from this man.
Anyway, to make a long and boring story short, don't sell yourself short. Know that you have what it takes to succeed and, if there is any validity to what your current management views as your shortcomings, remove the anger and disappointment and try to reflect impartially on what they're trying to tell you. Maybe they're wrong because you didn't project your value to the organization effectively, maybe they're right and you need to improve in specific areas, or maybe there just was a conflict in where you and your mgmt. wanted to take the organization. You may never know but it wouldn't hurt to sit down with your current manager and ask specific questions so you can go forward.
A few decades ago the Alaska Airlines magazine had a story about a couple who had been whacked in a particularly vicious downsizing event and they came to a few conclusions related to job security that stuck with me . I'm paraphrasing but it went something like this, 'Security is not the job. There is no job security anymore. The only job security you have is your own confidence, along with your knowledge on how to earn a living.'
Don't mope, network heavily via LinkedIn, and move on. You're young, it appears. Look at this as the opportunity you've been waiting for, etc.
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