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Employee Quits And Charges 3 Times His Salary To Answer Any Questions, Ex-Boss Is Furious
Recently, a person took their story to the Antiwork community on Reddit to remind everyone that you don’t owe your boss. “I got a new job a couple months ago after staying at my old one for way, way too long,” the author explained in a post that amassed 5.5k upvotes.
But since the Redditor was “the only one who knew about tons of our IT infrastructure, and I anticipated that I was going to get tons of texts and phone calls from former coworkers,” they came up with an idea. Let’s just say that the boss didn’t quite like it, to say the least.
Turns out that on their way out, the Redditor signed a formal contracting agreement to handle any questions from their now-former coworkers.
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This former employee signs a contract to charge the company for helping their ex-coworkers with questions, totally enrages their boss
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Christine Mitterbauer, a licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur told Bored Panda when commenting on this story: “I certainly don’t think it’s right that a former employee should spend their free time answering phone calls from the previous company for free.”
Mitterbauer believes that it’s a pretty creative solution this person has thought up. “If the manager is annoyed about this, he or she should ensure that it’s a business practice to keep a record with complete and up-to-date company knowledge, and when someone leaves, they spend their remaining time recording such knowledge so that the present and next employees can learn.”
“Clearly, this hadn’t been done properly, so I don’t blame this employee for coming up with a solution with sounds pretty fair,” the career coach concluded.
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Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum reports that the rate of people quitting their jobs voluntarily in the United States is up on pre-pandemic levels.
What’s more, a whopping 65% of people who quit their job did not return to the same industry, this research done in Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States by McKinsey & Company revealed.
The survey also revealed the most common reasons cited by those handing in their notice. People named these main reasons: “Lack of career development/advancement” and “inadequate compensation”. The third most common reason for quitting was named as “uncaring or uninspiring leaders.”
According to professor Peter Cappelli, the director of the School’s Center for Human Resources, the big thing that has changed is that we have a ton of jobs open all of a sudden. “The reason for that is employers waited until the last minute to hire or waited until demand was already back. They didn’t anticipate that everybody else was going to do the same thing, and that employees who were laid off were not just sitting by the phone, waiting for them to call.” Hence, we see a huge turnover of employees in different industries right now.
Others shared their own experiences about consulting their former companies
What do you think ?
MiriPanda 2 years ago
Why would you even respond to a call or text after your contract ended? I wouldn't.
InfiniteZeek 2 years ago
To charge the kunts as much as possible and watch them squirm.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Just say to your old boss knowingly "Business is business, isn't it?" He will know exactly what you mean.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
Quit one job and they called me asking questions. I missed the coworkers and help over the phone til I realized they were calling at least 4xs a day and not learning anything. I stopped answering. Quit diff job an they texted me to ask how to set up a part for a blasting job. I said my "consulting fee is $200 an hour. Any further questions about that job will be considered contractable to seek payment". Dude just waited twenty min and said "we found the schematics in the file". Okies don't bother me to help with work when I don't work there. That's basically it. Don't give in.
Alewa 2 years ago
Been there done that. Was fired during the probation period because I needed to have an urgent but simple operation (2 days off work). Had already acquired a lot of specialised knowledge and had made them 10x my wages in the first 4 months. They kept calling me/giving me tasks after my contract ended, I told them I was gonna bill them 3x my hourly net wage (which is slightly more than what I cost them when I was an employee) which they refused. I needed to understand that they couldn't pay me more than when I was an employee. Then why did you fire me? Eventually told them that apparently they didn't regard the contract as cancelled, I would return to work the next day and expect them to resume paying my salary (would have been a legal move in my country - Germany). Finally they stopped pestering me.
Jay Cee 1 year ago
Reminds me of an old joke that regularly made the rounds in engineering. Engineer retires after 45 years with a company. Six months later he gets a call about a problem in a power station - could he help. So he goes on site, wanders around for about 15 minutes and then puts a chalk cross on a piece of equipment. Expecting to just reimburse his travel expenses his old employer is astounded to receive a bill for $10,000 so they asked for a breakdown . . . "For putting chalk mark on defective plant $1.00. For knowing WHERE to put chalk mark $9,999".
Dave Hinckley 2 years ago
If a former colleague asked a question, I'd answer it. If you liked the people you worked with, answer their questions, but let them know you have another job, so quick answers only.
MiriPanda 2 years ago
Why would you even respond to a call or text after your contract ended? I wouldn't.
InfiniteZeek 2 years ago
To charge the kunts as much as possible and watch them squirm.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
Just say to your old boss knowingly "Business is business, isn't it?" He will know exactly what you mean.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
Quit one job and they called me asking questions. I missed the coworkers and help over the phone til I realized they were calling at least 4xs a day and not learning anything. I stopped answering. Quit diff job an they texted me to ask how to set up a part for a blasting job. I said my "consulting fee is $200 an hour. Any further questions about that job will be considered contractable to seek payment". Dude just waited twenty min and said "we found the schematics in the file". Okies don't bother me to help with work when I don't work there. That's basically it. Don't give in.
Alewa 2 years ago
Been there done that. Was fired during the probation period because I needed to have an urgent but simple operation (2 days off work). Had already acquired a lot of specialised knowledge and had made them 10x my wages in the first 4 months. They kept calling me/giving me tasks after my contract ended, I told them I was gonna bill them 3x my hourly net wage (which is slightly more than what I cost them when I was an employee) which they refused. I needed to understand that they couldn't pay me more than when I was an employee. Then why did you fire me? Eventually told them that apparently they didn't regard the contract as cancelled, I would return to work the next day and expect them to resume paying my salary (would have been a legal move in my country - Germany). Finally they stopped pestering me.
Jay Cee 1 year ago
Reminds me of an old joke that regularly made the rounds in engineering. Engineer retires after 45 years with a company. Six months later he gets a call about a problem in a power station - could he help. So he goes on site, wanders around for about 15 minutes and then puts a chalk cross on a piece of equipment. Expecting to just reimburse his travel expenses his old employer is astounded to receive a bill for $10,000 so they asked for a breakdown . . . "For putting chalk mark on defective plant $1.00. For knowing WHERE to put chalk mark $9,999".
Dave Hinckley 2 years ago
If a former colleague asked a question, I'd answer it. If you liked the people you worked with, answer their questions, but let them know you have another job, so quick answers only.
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