"It stings the person WAY more than the company. ... I encourage everyone to get fired once so they know that feeling. It’s unbelievable and something to definitely learn from."
^THIS. THANK YOU, SIR. In my case, it wasn't the sudden lack of a job that stung, it was the experience of being completely blacklisted by everyone at the company. That was 20 close friends who I never heard from again.
Fair point. Perhaps it seemed that way because I'd been working so much that I'd lost any semblance of a social life outside work. That's a mistake I haven't made again.
Also, not everyone in the company should be painted with the same brush. There was a lot going on, none of which I'm actually at liberty to talk about, unfortunately.
Martin, no intention to hurt your feelings but companies hire people to work, not to enjoy. My first job was utopian. I was the second employee and my primary goal was to build the product. After securing a 2M USD funding in 2005, they thought I have completed my tenure and fired me just 3 days prior to the day my shares vested.
Therefore, I learnt it the hard way and try to be an arse at work speaking in short and to-the-point sentences and keeping my mouth shut and slogging for the 40 hours I am contracted for. What matters to me is the hard cash employers bring on the table and no longer give a flying fuck about stocks, RSUs, et all. I don't even bother to check my email or answer phones unless I am on-call and being paid extra for it.
Indeed. In fact, I figure that those people contributed to the fact he was fired,- directly or otherwise. Never underestimate the prospect of someone else undercutting your reputation to make themselves look better.
If they were "close friends", they're not going to drop you just because you got canned. Good people get fired all the time. It's about as unremarkable as a bad rainstorm. Shit... another one of these.
Most companies are shitty and most people know most companies are shitty and aren't going to ostracize someone just because their employer fired that person.
You are best off if you have an offline form of contact. Don't expect them to let the company know that you're still in contact with them, because that's not a fair expectation (they could be endangering their own reputations) but they'll usually be in contact with you offline.
dude, I would say at least the takeaway from the whole episode was "Personal Life should always have higher priority than work". Your employer can be replaced, your personal life can't.
^THIS. THANK YOU, SIR. In my case, it wasn't the sudden lack of a job that stung, it was the experience of being completely blacklisted by everyone at the company. That was 20 close friends who I never heard from again.