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Maybe if you combine that approach with hiding under your desk when anyone walks by, it will be literally impossible to fire you.

> Takeaway seems to be if you receive an invite from a rando HR person, decline that meeting.

Uh, you'll still get terminated if you skip the meeting. It's not like that's the One Big Loophole companies don't want you to know.

That’s been my policy for a few years - if HR drop a meeting in my calendar, no matter what it’s for, ignore it until I’ve spoken to my direct manager.

Most of the time it’s been harmless, but there have been a couple of instances early in my career where I really should have had a legal representative before agreeing to anything.