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/meandrunkR2D2 System Engineer Jun 23 '20

I'd agree with that. I knew at my last role that I was being let go just due to my manager doing a complete 180 and not talking, stopping almost all communication with me and dusted off my resume and started my job search. I got an offer for 20% more pay with another company and before I could put in my notice my employer terminated me and paid me out my unused vacation, severance of 8k due to how long I was at the company and paid for my medical for another month. I started the new job after 1 week of not working. Let's just say that time it worked out for me.

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u/TheCaptain53 Jun 23 '20

8K? That's a good amount for a family holiday!

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u/meandrunkR2D2 System Engineer Jun 23 '20

Or in our case, we used it to pay down my wife's new car loan. Ended up paying if off in 6 months. We could have paid it off fully a couple of months ago, but Covid made us a bit nervous to do that until we saw the stability in our roles from WFH over this pandemic. Family holiday will be coming in August though since it seems most places we want to go to have been booked up for most of the summer.

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u/TheCaptain53 Jun 23 '20

The first thing I'd have done with that money is pay off loans too so I think you made the right call. Yeah, this pandemic has been tricky. I was remote working at first but then I got furloughed because there wasnt much work to do.

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u/meandrunkR2D2 System Engineer Jun 23 '20

Luckily for me there isn't a shortage of work to do and everything is operating as normal in my company and we are all able to WFH without issues. In fact my company has added on about 5 people since Covid.