Re:Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who...
by dragonsky67 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:26PM
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How can it be abuse? If 2 months leave is part of package then surely it's up to them how they use it. You wouldn't criticize them for using all the money they get paid would you?
Re:Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who...
by barsonme on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:39AM
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The problem isn’t taking two months off. It’s taking a large chunk of time off, then immediately quitting.
That means the team was down an engineer for basically an entire quarter, without notice. That wrecks schedules and causes headaches for your coworkers who now have to figure out how to make up for the lost time or figure out what work to cut from the schedule.
Re:Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who...
by dorgo on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:14PM
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So it is an HR problem. They need to extend the cancelation periods in contracts..
Re:Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who...
by barsonme on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:32PM
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No, HR doesn’t schedule work or features. It’s practically impossible to pad timelines for the case where an engineer decides to effectively pad their two weeks notice by an additional six weeks except for large companies like Google.
I think the guy who quit after two months' leave knew perfectly well it was abuse; he just didn't care. Or maybe he felt slighted by the company in some way (unfair resolution of a conflict, promotion denied, underpaid, whatever) and this was his way of getting even with them.