A friend of mine works remotely for a pretty big company (not FAANG but post IPO tech company we all know) that had a couple of big eng reorg recently, a combination of old, new and skip manager /maternity leave/quitting/moving groups and has somehow ended up in the position where he’s not associated with any team or doing any work but still employed. On workday he says it still shows him reporting to his old manager (whose on maternity leave). But apparently this is the case for a lot of his old teammates who actually do now work for new teams with new managers. Since it’s now been several weeks and multiple paychecks with no one noticing he thinks this can keep going at least til when his old manager gets back from mat leave, possibly longer (not til spring). Has anyone heard of something like this before? If it weren’t someone I know personally I wouldn’t have believed it (although hearing how much of an internal mess his company is it’s less surprising). Surely there is some internal audit process or something that would catch this. Anyone work in HR or management that have any insight as to how long this could keep going? #Corporate #quietQuitting #forgottenEmployees #corporateAmerica #bureaucracy
It happens. The right thing to do it reaching out to manager of the manager on may leave. Otherwise, it depends on the leadership to interpret the case when they find out.
He’s probably past the point of no return though isn’t he? It’s been like 2.5 months. You think if he came clean it would be a problem?
time for him to get a 2nd job
Probably a good time to get a new job
get a second job
Is his name Milton? Tell him to hold onto his red SwingLine.
Now it’s a waiting game on when he’ll be fired.
This has happened before
It’s a glitch https://youtu.be/BUE0PPQI3is
High risk of on the layoff list when it happens
Tldr TC or GTFO