Anyone have any close calls or cautionary tales about OE?

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I was actually fired from a job because they suspected I had another job. The reason my manager gave for thinking I was OE (when I actually wasn’t at the time) was because I kept showing up to meetings with my camera and mic off.

I later found out from my contract agency that the company was doing mass layoffs but didn’t want people claiming unemployment so they quietly fired people over the course of many months instead of just laying us all off. The firing process required managers to provide a valid reason and in my case they just couldn’t find anything so they went with “poor attendance.”

The whole thing taught me a lesson in the importance of managing appearances throughout your time at the company because management will make every attempt to dig up anything they can when layoffs come around (including outing you as OE to your coworkers).

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Wow. It’s wild how Americans just take this shit and not stand up for it while they have to give so much to these evil corporations and their practices.

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