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    Least lunatic thing I’ve seen hear in here. “sure they are a terrible company and they fired me, but they paid well and now I have them on my resume”.

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    I got laid off from a fairly well known company and it helped me to get another job, so he’s not entirely wrong. And I didn’t even get severance.

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      But were you laid off at the same time your company announced “low-performer layoffs?” That’s the real problem here. That claim could be grounds for a class-action slander/libel suit.

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        In my case it was the company that was poorly performing.

        And I agree that they should talk to a lawyer about that. There are pretty strict rules about what you can say about someone who was fired and I’m pretty sure that breaks them.

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          There are pretty strict rules about what you can say about someone who was fired and I’m pretty sure that breaks them.

          Not in the Trump administration, anything goes now! As long as you’re a business with money

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          In my experience as a former corporate shill, I’d face corrective action for providing any work reference, good or bad. Providing either could be legally actionable against the company. The only way I was able to skirt HR was to write a personal reference that highlighted my team member’s skills and competencies anecdotally.

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      I try to approach these things with positive intent and it could be that the lunatic is ESL (English as a second language).

      Plenty of insane stuff in that post to call them out for without having to picking on their grammar.

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        I actually don’t see the post as that nuts. He’s got a point, some folks just want to get a name on their CV and HR people are shallow enough to value it.

        My point in being pedantic is that three language in a corporate setting is based on business English. Companies deal with loads of people from different countries and cultures. However, a self-styled leader and mentor ought to know better as the language used can captivate or put people off.

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    Is the meta employee saying it’s only cruel now that theyve been laid off? I mean i know meta is bad, but i feel like an employee that only says this bc they were fired is on brand for someone that works for meta.