Saw a book on negotiating your lay off. Essentially said to ask to be laid off and negotiating it properly. Anyone try this? Feels like a laughable idea

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I mean if you feel like you are on your way out then yes.

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To expand, you don’t want to be terminated with cause — you lose benefits, pay, etc. You also are not eligible for unemployment (at least I believe this is the case in many/most states, but I could be wrong).

By negotiating to be “laid off,” you can retain many benefits and possibly have a generous package that extends your pay for several months. This would also not be a red flag for future employers (laid off is always better than being fired with cause).

Hope this helps

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In some states doing this protects you from termination. Reason being is that you can claim you offered the employer to lay you off but instead terminated your employment

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Some dude wanted this in another thread. He was working with fishy / questionable partners and he wanted to be laid off, so he doesnt need to repay his edu expenses.

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I don’t think it’s that uncommon in industry, my wife’s uncle was close to retirement and kept asking about it for close to two years and they finally gave him a nice package to leave and retire early

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My parents did it years ago after a big pharma merger. Seems like the more temporary nature of consulting work would make it a much tougher prospect.

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