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Comment by roymurdock | Hacker News Reader

> Getting laid off is almost like winning the lottery

Now there's an opinion you don't hear every day. Why not just leave the company if you know you can be quickly hired into a better-paid/more enjoyable job?

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when you get laid off like this it is normal to get between 2 to 3 months salary as severance. if you quit you get nothing, i have seen people stick around in companies after mergers for weeks knowing they are going to be laid off but just waiting around for their severance check because waiting 2 weeks to leave a job can be a difference of ten of thousands of dollars in your pocket

> when you get laid off like this it is normal to get between 2 to 3 months salary as severance.

  [citation needed]

When I was laid off in 2009, I got 2 weeks 'severance' even though I had 10 PTO days accrued. (They basically just paid out my paid leave). This was for a software consultancy business.

I would like to live in your 'normal'.

Severance pay given when you are layedoff.

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