Re:Talking about layoffs
by eindiran on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:13PM
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That is completing actual tasks for the company. You are effectively acting as a consultant for them. And I have heard of a number of cases of people actually coming back to fix something briefly, which is even further in that direction.
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Sure, coming back to fix something is absolutely completing actual tasks for the company. But I certainly disagree you can generalize answering a question as "effectively acting as a consultant for [the company]".
Someone who replaced you but you don't know reaches out asking for help on their work? Or you're being asked questions you'd need to dig in to? "Sorry, I don't work there anymore".
But answering a text message from someone you had a good relationship with, who is asking a question in good faith, the answer to which you can recall without effort? Wouldn't agree with calling that consulting.