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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I have to ask: in a situation where you’re not looking for more severance or a job, what are you really trying to accomplish? It’s ####ty what happened to you (losing your job is never a positive experience, especially without cause), but can you take a step back from this and honestly say you’re doing this to protect others? Or is this just for you?
The only reason I ask is because, at the end of the day, the employer played by the rules. They may have not conducted themselves in a respectable way, but they still played by the rules. Can you honestly say you think a rampant enough problem that you feel responsible to protect others? Or are you in this to teach a lesson?
Some bridges are better left unburned, especially when it comes to business. Just make sure you’re doing things for the right reasons, and not just to make yourself feel better.
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I've mulled the situation over in my mind for some time now. Should I, shouldn't I? What's to be gained? What's to be lost?
Most of all, it's the question you posed: am I doing this for the right reasons, and will this result in a better environment and organization than I left behind? I fully believe I would look into this for the right reasons. I'm certainly not the first one to receive this treatment there, and by any indication I will be far from the last.
After getting some great advice in this thread I now know what my rights and options are, which are sadly limited. And after sleeping on it with the new information and insights, I have to agree with the series of posts advising that it's not worth my time, energy, or overall capital. Even if I believe in my purpose and rationale, it's a real "pick your battle" life situation.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
They are allowed to do this. They owe you nothing except reasonable severance in lieu of notice.
People have some strange ideas about the nature of the relationship between an employer and their employees. You're exchanging your service or labour for money by mutual agreement that either party can end if they don't think it's worth the exchange anymore, for any reason. If you quit a job, do you feel a burden to keep working for them for free until they find a suitable replacement to fill your position? Of course not. So why on Earth would you think you're entitled to be paid to not work somewhere anymore?
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Although it would make things much, much easier at this juncture, I wasn't really looking for additional compensation. If this were about money I wouldn't have been working there in the first place. I just loved the job, and was good at it.
This is more about the fact that an employee seems to have less rights and protections than employers (unless you're unionized, of course). If I were to do something equally unethical while employed, the employer could terminate me on the spot.
Yes, what they did was perfectly legal, and they met obligations of employment standards in this situation. It's crappy and it stings, and it's put me in a personally difficult situation. They will never be held accountable for it, and they are free to continue doing this and many other unethical things.
I guess I don't know what the solution is, and I didn't fully know my options until I reached out the CP community. Now I know and I've re-assessed my position and future actions. Again, it still sucks and I think there is probably a better way to protect employees when something this blatant occurs, but there isn't.
Feel free to carry on with the thread discussing employment standards, etc. Might be an interesting conversation to have.
Thanks again to everyone. Appreciate it.