You Are Going Away! Your Job is Not!!
"You are going away .. your job is not! .. And that is the reason why your severence package is small!" explained my manager.
On two earlier occasions, my manager MG told me that I would get two weeks of severence pay for every year of my service with a maximum of 26 weeks of pay (1 week of severence for every six months of service). As I had 16+ years, I would max out at 26 weeks. As I had marketable skills, if I were to find a job soon (after), I should be better off financially with this extra money in my pocket, he had told me.
A few days before my termination date, he called me to his office and told me that my severence package would be small. He told that I should not be under the wrong impression that I would get the normal package. Since my job was not going away but I am (going away), my severence package would be much much smaller. One week of pay per every year of my service and maxing out at 13 weeks will be my package he told me.
He further explained that I have two choicies- accept the current package and leave or else leave without taking it. One way or the other I am leaving, he told me. The Big Blue will make sure I leave one way or the other. The choice was mine, he said.
I must say that I admire my manager MG. He was able to tell me that without any sort of feeling. He contradicted what he himslef told me what my severence package was (twice) earlier. When he told me, his face was expressionless.
What he told me was that my severence package was only one-half of what others would normally get (and what he originally told me twice what I would get) as I am leaving (euphemism for getting "fired"), but my job was not leaving. I looked at him and I could not figure out what he was thinking.
I wanted to say something .. but decided not to say anything. As I am leaving any way (one way or the other as he put it appropriately) I thought there was no point in saying anything. After all he was the one who hired me and had given me good grades in the preceeding years (annual evaluations). I thought it was not appropriate for me to say anything. It is just better I leave and say nothing .. or so I thought to myself.
A year after .. I wonder as how he would have reacted if he had been told the same by his manager.
On two earlier occasions, my manager MG told me that I would get two weeks of severence pay for every year of my service with a maximum of 26 weeks of pay (1 week of severence for every six months of service). As I had 16+ years, I would max out at 26 weeks. As I had marketable skills, if I were to find a job soon (after), I should be better off financially with this extra money in my pocket, he had told me.
A few days before my termination date, he called me to his office and told me that my severence package would be small. He told that I should not be under the wrong impression that I would get the normal package. Since my job was not going away but I am (going away), my severence package would be much much smaller. One week of pay per every year of my service and maxing out at 13 weeks will be my package he told me.
He further explained that I have two choicies- accept the current package and leave or else leave without taking it. One way or the other I am leaving, he told me. The Big Blue will make sure I leave one way or the other. The choice was mine, he said.
I must say that I admire my manager MG. He was able to tell me that without any sort of feeling. He contradicted what he himslef told me what my severence package was (twice) earlier. When he told me, his face was expressionless.
What he told me was that my severence package was only one-half of what others would normally get (and what he originally told me twice what I would get) as I am leaving (euphemism for getting "fired"), but my job was not leaving. I looked at him and I could not figure out what he was thinking.
I wanted to say something .. but decided not to say anything. As I am leaving any way (one way or the other as he put it appropriately) I thought there was no point in saying anything. After all he was the one who hired me and had given me good grades in the preceeding years (annual evaluations). I thought it was not appropriate for me to say anything. It is just better I leave and say nothing .. or so I thought to myself.
A year after .. I wonder as how he would have reacted if he had been told the same by his manager.
posted by satish at 2:53 PM
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