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		whimsicalism on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce At any time, you could choose not to do it and instead search for other jobs with basically the same result.

alexiaya on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

no, you'll be worse off if you do that because then you won't get severance. especially if you're not able to quickly land another job.

whimsicalism on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

They generally won't be able to fire you fast enough that it compares unfavorably with severance + you will get unemployment.

alexiaya on Nov 4, 2022 | | [–]

ok yeah true i forgot about unemployment

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