Knowing they might get laid off a year or even less after they make such a major move? I can't figure out why a single person would be considering it. Honestly.
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Not for me. But everyone is in a different situation.
Pecan Man, I went through exactly that thought process: watching the dollars rack up on the pump, ruminating over it for another 5 hours behind the wheel.
U turn indeed!
Strategy for those that are being told to relocate and are unsure, is to rent a place with a coworker(s) in your group. We have done it for decades in bargained when we work out of town, for months at a time. It’s a business arrangement to split the cost and it’s only temporary. It would give you time to make a more informed decision about the job, housing or more time to find another job. Of course your expenses will be more during that period trying to maintain 2 places but it beats making a huge mistake that you’d regret later.
"I turned that car around in my mind, snapped back to reality, and clicked the decline option on "living my resignation."
"Living my resignation". I love the phrase. I'm actually going to be "living my resignation" in a few weeks time. I'm tired of the long, 2 hour plus one way drive across state lines to basically sit at a long table with people that I don't work with, in order to "collaborate" with my actual team members, located in different parts of the country, on MS Teams. It's stupid and I can't do it anymore. Fortunately, I have a good opportunity waiting which starts in April. I don't know how long the RTO police will take to catch up to me and put me on a bad list- so maybe I'll get terminated before the date I actually plan to resign. I don't care that much- in any event, I've made my last long drive out to my "designation" and I'm not going back.
Maybe with expenses, a raise and a two-year contract.
“ Moving to Dallas is the right decision for me and my family.“
No, it isn’t.
If you’re serious (which I doubt),why do you think so?
Moving to Dallas is the right decision for me and my family. This isn’t a one size fits all solution.
Union members have significantly more job security than management. There us definitely good reason for many of them to move.
People who have easy over compensated jobs at att and now don't have skills to make similar salaries elsewhere might move.
When a company creates situations unfavorable to employees, the ones who can leave will. The company will have a significant number of mediocre or less employees. You won't have the best of the best in most cases.
Someone in a different post a while back said something to the effect "If you're going to relocate to another city, be sure it's because you want to be there, regardless of the job." I thought that a wise sentiment.
This is all just such an obvious ploy to surplus.
They should have listened to Miley Cyrus’s Flowers song to be certain to push the “No” button.
Several reasons for some folks: 1) T is sponsoring their Green Card, 2) they are relatively new to T, and don’t have any roots established where they are. 3) job market where they are is worse than Dallas or Atlanta.
** that's "designation" not "resignation"
Even the grammar checker chokes on AT&T corporate speak.
No resignation here, either; my "choice" was involuntary layoff. With severance.
I thought about it and got as far as I envisioning getting that first tank of gas on my twice weekly hours-long drive to Dallas.
Watching the gas pump rack up dollars and cents, with hours of road behind and ahead, all to sit where I am told to do the exact same work I had done from my home office?
I turned that car around in my mind, snapped back to reality, and clicked the decline option on "living my resignation."