• burgerchurgarr@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Lmao in my case my computer just randomly restarted and asked for a security pin while I was busy working on something. I learned through our WhatsApp group that we got laid off lol.

    Call with HR was when I already knew and nothing like this, I tried to get them to let me keep my $7k MacBook, no chance, literally everything was non negotiable so the call was absolutely pointless.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      You should have kept the Mac, seriously. I often had no response trying to get laptops back from employees and was asking HR if we couldn’t get a form for new hires to sign regarding company equipment returns. Can’t remember the reasoning but HR told me the company is basically powerless to force the issue. In any case, the legal costs of suing you would quickly stack higher than $7K.

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        Can’t they just file a police report suggesting you stole it? It’s the government’s job then and since the police barely have to investigate anything they are sure to actually do something. That’s a quick way to get a search warrant filed.

        • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          No, at least not in the US. It does not meet the legal definition of theft because (I believe) the property was initially acquired legally.

          Otherwise, the police would be doing repo for things like delinquent car loans, which is dystopian corporate hellscape stuff.

  • Magister@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    In my previous company, at about 9PM, about half the company got an invite for a 9AM meeting, and the other half for a 10AM meeting, we saw all the name in our invite of course. Let’s say the evening was hard, to guess which group was staying and which group was fired! I was in the “stay” group, this repeated every quarter and after 3 or 4 quarters it was my turn to be in the fire group, the next quarter they closed the company and fired the remaining employees.

    The HR lady was like the picture.