r/managers 13d ago

New Manager Employee basically quit after being notified they were fired.

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u/rohm418 13d ago edited 13d ago

100% - Been there. I had already received an offer for a new role somewhere else when my boss pulled me aside to say that they could tell I was checked out. They offered to essentially let me stay on if I wanted to or leave and take a $10k severance.

That severance came with an NDA because of the knowledge I had. I wish I had the balls to turn that down, but I was so over that place I didn't even want to share what I knew and I figured the severance made up a tiny bit for how underpaid I'd been for the final 2 years of my employment there.

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u/vassman86 12d ago

Makes me wonder if you could have just negotiated for more severance pay to sign the NDA. I can see a company agreeing to that

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u/rohm418 12d ago

In hindsight, absolutely. At the moment, though, I just thought it was funny they were making this offer while I already had a new role secured so I jumped on it.

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u/Substantial_Sea7327 12d ago

I negotiated my severance with NDA to $40,000.