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Comment by hopsoft | Hacker News Reader

> Don't confuse your job with your family.

But as it turns out, that was two weeks of severance plus the bonus he had already earned implemented as four weeks of extra severance.

Ridiculous, indeed.

Even more ridiculous: The final pay check, in full, is required to be paid on the day of severance. (at least in california)

This include earned vacation.

  >> (our VP) specifically named you because your piece is finished.

That is really poor, short-sighted management.

It's a good way to find out about the quality of the officers in your firm.

Thanks for sharing. I wish someone had given me this advice years and years ago before I sank my 20s into a soul-less corporation for no benefit.

Hopefully you at least got paid, so there was some benefit.