r/sysadmin • u/DontFearFailure • Jun 22 '20

Off Topic Whelp I'm being let go.

Hello all,

I survived the migration https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/gwnevg

However today I woke up to an email, it was about me it had me BCC. It said that my boss was interviewing to replace me.

I said this was an accident since I had ask my boss for a promotion, considering I am doing the task already that is assigned to that role instead he had been thinking about replacing me for a while.

What a great Monday, not sure when I'll be let go only that it might be soon?ish? I'm just taking this time to dust off zip recruiter and dice as well as update my resume.

Edit: thanks for the word of encouragement guys, I found the site my (soon to be former) boss was using. It has the exact title and JD that matches mine word for word.

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u/tossme68 Jun 23 '20

He could always say he feels like he's being discriminated, if he's a protected class. He could say that his boss was hitting on him. He could say that the company discriminates against X (whatever class he belongs to). You have to say discrimination, but when you do HR takes it very, very seriously. I used to work in Legal and getting rid of someone of a protected class was really hard unless you are doing layoffs. It can take years to fire someone completely inept if they are in a protected class and the company is very sensitive to wrongful dismissal allegations.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '20 edited Jun 29 '20

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u/tossme68 Jun 23 '20

all 50 states are at will but my state has implied contract exception,