I, too, fantasize about my coworkers wondering where I am, cue comedy smash cut to my slowly swinging corpse
If/when I do kms it won’t be by hanging but it’s a funnier mental image
That’s nothing to joke about.
Get help!
Suicide prevention hotlines: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/suicide/suicide-prevention-hotlines-resources-worldwide
On antidepressants and in therapy, which is why I am still here. It is funny, though. Imagine it:
Scene: several people are sitting in a zoom call, with cameras on. It’s dead silent.
Coworker 1: Should we just get started?
Coworker 2: Probably, pix’s missed the other meetings today too, I doubt they’ll show up now.
Coworker 3: I’m starting to get pretty sick of them being so unreliable. I hope whatever they’re doing instead of at least letting us know they won’t be here is important.
Hard cut to my torso and legs, neck and head out of frame, gently swinging suspended above the ground
This continues for a couple seconds, letting the shock factor linger, before the Seinfeld outro slap bass starts playing
Still not funny.
Really: get help! Talk to someone!
There are so many beautiful things to live for. And if it’s just very dark humor.
It might seems funny to think in such scenarios but it leads you on a certain path. It’s the same if with all other topics. The more you think about it, the more you live in this world / scenario. At one time this world becomes so normal that next - potential dangerous - steps don’t seem so crazy, as they might do, judged from the outside.
So please: take care and try to focus on other, positive things in life 😊
You got this, buddy!
Take two weeks vacation. Get paid.
Miss two weeks of work. Get paid.
Get fired. Get two weeks severance and unemployment.
Homie quit and got six weeks pay plus unemployment benefits.
Why would he get paid for not showing up for 2 weeks, at least when I went on parental leave I had to talk to HR every week I didn’t work and ask them to use my sick time, even then they’d forget and I’d have to remind them before the week was off otherwise I wouldn’t get a check
Salaried employees get paid by default. Someone has to notify accounting to not pay the person, not the other way around. This has been the process for every company I have ever worked for, or owned. I am not saying that what you are saying isn’t true, I am saying that it is fucked up.
Prob aren’t getting severance nor unemployment if you get fired for 2 weeks of no-call-no-show.
Severance, you’re right. Unemployment is likely still on the table depending on the state. In Texas, the person can file for unemployment. The company can challenge saying they were a no show but the employee can argue that it isn’t true. It is just easier to allow unemployment to just cover it.
EDIT: I once had a guy work for two week as a 1099 and he still filed for unemployment. That got denied because he was never an actual employee, but had we not noticed the claim in the mail, he would have gotten paid.
I used to work in HR. Can confirm that some managers will just pay out bullshit claims because it would be expensive to litigate.
I quit my startup like that.
We were making it: we were eking by and just starting to turn the corner when one of the partners did some legal wrangling to grab power. FineYouDoIt.jpg because I’d had enough already and prepped my next job.
Hopped a plane. Hopped another. Hopped another. Three people on the planet knew where I was: Mom, GF, and guy who bashes bags at the local airport who saw my name on the flight manifest and checked my connection. Went to the waiting apartment to start the next day. Never looked back, didn’t answer email except when Cop friend emailed and asked whether I was missing. Nope, so case closed.
A resignation would’ve worked just fine. I guess maybe paired with a restraining order if all of this was even remotely necessary.
My dad did this to an asshole client. Fucked his practice up lol.
Interesting that this is “Livin the dream”. It happened at my friend’s workplace and the leading theory is that he did some diddling and is escaping the repercussions. Guess it’s a fine line…
Cheated on his wife. Kid diddler. Embezzlement.
They’re never as juicy as people like to think it is. It’s usually something lame like depression or raising diddlers.