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> However, in the HR system, the resignation cancelled the promo.

Can I ask you about occurrences of fence post errors?

There was a very important eng who was basically a sole contributor on a difficult component in a system. He announced his retirement date well in advance, but after the bonus payout period. HR terminated him early, denying him the bonus and leaving the team to scramble and organize a mini-summit to do knowledge transfer. The team itself had no control over the date. I believe it was a similar company.

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I left my last company the day after our quarterly bonus and HR managed to reverse the transaction. To be honest I didn't even realize te bonus was due that day and I gave my usual 2 week notice. They could have not even deposited the amount and I would have not noticed. HR leadership used be a lot kinder at that company until there was a shift to a new HR director.

That sounds illegal.

It doesn't matter if its illegal or not, if he wants to dispute it, it will probably go through binding arbitration.

Arbitrators do not need to have any understanding of the law, and are notoriously employer-friendly.

Possibly but the amount lost was small and I had already gotten 98%+ of all my bonuses up to this point.

If you have an important or arbitrary milestone coming up in the next two weeks, don't give your two weeks notice until after that milestone. It sounds paranoid but it's better to be paranoid than to be screwed on something like this.

Gee, and in another thread we were wondering why people walk off jobs without notice. This is a prime example to reinforce the move.

In my case, fear of this sort of thing is why I could not let my manager know that I was planning on leaving. He would not have intentionally screwed me over like this, but I was afraid somebody above him in the org chart would.

I felt really bad that he went to bat for me for the promo.

denying him the bonus and leaving the team to scramble and organize a mini-summit to do knowledge transfer

I hope he said “no bonus, no knowledge” because that’s the only reasonable response!

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