Getting Walked Out After Resignation

[Hoober]

One of my team members submitted his resignation last week, and word came down from on high that he should be walked out the door today. This individual serves a critical role in the company, and it's important his duties be transitioned before his departure.

The company has a pretty solid history of walking people out the door before their resignation date. What're other folks experience with this? In my career it's been rare (if ever) I've seen someone walked out the door after submitting their resignation.

 

[highland145]

Normal for finance. Don't want peeps messing with the company cash before they leave.


Normal that some upper level guy shoots the company/business in the foot because an employee "dared" to tell them to fuck off.

 

[purbeast0]

I've only ever quit 3 real jobs and that was never the case. Most of the companies practically begged me to stay except the first one.

 

[repoman0]

Normal at the local government site, security clearances and all.

When I left my last security clearance job I was still there at the end of my two weeks Friday at 6PM packing up alone and walking shit to my car

Guess they trusted me ...

... or they were incompetent. I also kept my CAC which was NOT supposed to happen.

 

[highland145]

When I left my last security clearance job I was still there at the end of my two weeks Friday at 6PM packing up alone and walking shit to my car

Guess they trusted me ...

Actually, it's when they have layoffs and firings. My bad. Edited.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I wonder what the conversation is when you get walked out... "soooooo, do you do this a lot? Is this your passion?"


Personally never been "walked out". I've been laid off from outsourcing - and my last day it was basically "Yeah just give us your laptop + badge and you can go, no need for you to work today"... But that was entirely a "planned" last day - not a random escort out. I guess I was escorted out in that my boss had to badge me out because the parking garage requires a badge to enter/exit.

My last 2 jobs I gave a 1-week notice and both times they just left me alone till the last day.

 

[Captante]

I've only had this happen once and it was pharma-company that I won't name .... BUT .... it was based in Stamford and made its most of its fortune getting people hooked on opiods.

Family who owned that place is pure $hit ... I only worked the help-desk and I still saw some stuff that would make your hair stand on end.

Most likely this is why they "frog-marched" ex-employee's out on a regular basis... they had a lot to hide.

 

[Hoober]

Yeah, it's a little mind-boggling to me. It's not finance.

I've just never seen it before, and certainly not with this frequency in a 20 year career.

 

[repoman0]

Family who owned that place is pure $hit ... I only worked the help-desk and I still saw some stuff that would make your hair stand on end.

Details?

 

[Zeze]

I worked for a #1 pharma company in US.

A popular Sr. Director was walked out - for making the merger/migration way too overbudget & over-schedule.

He was escorted out.

He's fine though. Joined another pharma company C-level exec.

 

[Captante]

Details?

Most of it came out in the lawsuit against them ... essentially they fully knew what they were doing with Oxycontin and the addiction/OD crisis which resulted was considered "acceptable losses" long as they got rich.



Also the contents of certain executives laptops could have resulted in substantial federal prison time if exposed. Use your imagination.


EDIT: Entire bunch of them deserves to be strung up.

He's fine though. Joined another pharma company C-level exec.

Phew ... I was so concerned for him!

 

[local]

I wonder what the conversation is when you get walked out... "soooooo, do you do this a lot? Is this your passion?"

The fun part is when your employees drive company vehicles full of their personal tools. One time we fired a guy and I had to drive him home so he could unload his tools, it was over an hour drive. I think he made it through at least four stages of grief by the time I left his house.

 

[Murloc]

in my country long-time contracts after a few years have a 3 month notice period (unless there is a serious break of trust in either direction) so this phenomenon mostly doesn't exist for common employees because it's horribly expensive to keep someone on paid leave for 3 months and companies want to do a transition anyway.
Maybe for finance companies it's worth the cost, idk.

 

[BurnItDwn]

ive seen people walked out,, i've seen people stay. With a few of the people who have survived to retirement, i've also seen the company negotiate to keep people another year or two to transition their knowledge. A wife of one of the guys on my team was able to work part time for 2 years before fully retiring. She got to help with her grandkids, and still collected salary while training up some newbs.

 

[MrSquished]

Moral of my story is if you fire someone, walk them to their desk - not sure about a resignation though.

I had a job for a magazine at a publisher in NYC and we got sold to a different publisher. This was like 2009-2010 during the great recession. I promoted and ran a nationwide series of events. After I got to know some of the office politics and people at the new company - I learned who to watch out for. I was straight up warned by a long time employee there that one of the marketing directors who was buddy buddy with the publisher of my group had wanted to get his mistress a job there for a while - and she had a background in event coordinating so I should watch out. This marketing director would have been fired from his job for some serious fuck ups if he wasn't so buddy buddy with the publisher but it was what it was.

Well lo and behold strange things started happening. These guys thought I was oblivious because they were so cocky and sloppy, I saw the warning signs early. I bought a portable hard drive and started running all my Outlook email off of the hard drive and not on the company's servers. I was put on a 30 day performance review thing. I kept doing my job and planning all the upcoming events, etc...

Well the 30 days were up and as expected they terminated me. They let me go back to my desk unaccompanied to clean up. I threw out my most important paper documents in different garbage cans throughout different departments on that floor. Took my hard drive with all my emails on them and returned my laptop and left.

I heard from my friends that still worked there the publisher and his buddy were at my desk later that day wondering where all the work I'd been doing had disappeared to, especially my emails lol

They did indeed hire that marketing director's mistress to replace me and I heard she didn't work out very well from friends that still worked there a year later. Eventually some higher ups got shuffled around at that company and they put that marketing director on his own performance review, and he eventually got canned a few years after I was fired.

 

[zinfamous]

I've only had this happen once and it was pharma-company that I won't name .... BUT .... it was based in Stamford and made its most of its fortune getting people hooked on opiods.

Family who owned that place is pure $hit ... I only worked the help-desk and I still saw some stuff that would make your hair stand on end.

Most likely this is why they "frog-marched" ex-employee's out on a regular basis... they had a lot to hide.

lemme guess....starts with an "S" and rhymes with "acler?"

 

[Captante]

lemme guess....starts with an "S" and rhymes with "acler?"

Bingo ... I was actually a contractor in the Helpdesk for a year or so to help coordinate a big laptop roll-out to the sales force.

The guys/girls I worked with were really cool and the work environment was pretty awesome too with stuff like a no-cost sushi bar in the cafeteria but in retrospect I'm glad I got out when I did.

 

[zinfamous]

Bingo ... I was actually a contractor in the Helpdesk for a year or so to help coordinate a big laptop roll-out to the sales force.

The guys/girls I worked with were really cool and the work environment was pretty awesome too with stuff like a no-cost sushi bar in the cafeteria but in retrospect I'm glad I got out when I did.

yeah, pretty much the scum of the earth when you get down to it!

The Family That Built an Empire of Pain

The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.

www.newyorker.com

 

[snoopy7548]

I would consider it a dick move if the employee resigned on good terms, especially if they're well-liked by co-workers.

 

[Spacehead]

We have, or i should say had, an environment that you couldn't quit. Give them your 2 weeks notice & the response would usually be "pack up your shit & GTFO now", so in the boss's mind he fired them. "No one quits here!"
Probably some have been escorted out but that's usually not the case.

 

[Captante]

We have, or i should say had, an environment that you couldn't quit. Give them your 2 weeks notice & the response would usually be "pack up your shit & GTFO now", so in the boss's mind he fired them. "No one quits here!"
Probably some have been escorted out but that's usually not the case.

Sounds like leave friday afternoon after a week of spiriting out all your personal stuff bit by bit then Monday AM don't even bother getting up.

I find it difficult to believe this however because unless the boss can prove gross negligence or something equally serious he/his insurance has to pay unemployment while if you quit he's off the hook. Would get expensive quick.

 

[NuclearNed]

A long, long time ago at a company I worked for early in my career... We had one of our network/server guys submit his resignation. In the days shortly before he left, someone said something that made him mad. Strangely, on his last day, a screwdriver somehow managed to drag itself across the motherboard of one of our servers.

That's why you get people out the door asap.

 

[DigDog]

normal for just about anyone.

1. they have had malicious, disgruntled (whether right or wrong) employees "bomb" the place before leaving, and don't want the same thing happening again.
2. they risk money being lost, secrets being stolen, clients list getting exported, and so on.
3. the company has a timeframe to remove secure access from the employee, and don't want to risk overrunning it, so as soon as they complete it, they cut you out.
4. the company provides services for a third party and part of their agreement is that the site is secure, so anyone who does not have the right access has to be escorted out.

yeah. it happened to me too. It has nothing to do with you, they don't think you're a cybercriminal, it's just things work in the new millennium.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

My employer has a policy, both public and private, that they will not tolerate retribution on any level. BUT they do it almost every day. Its not about logic or rational, but about pissing on the person finding a better place to be at. Jealousy is everywhere.

 

[snoopy7548]

What's stopping an employee from doing most of this malicious stuff before they hand in their resignation? Companies that walk employees out (when they leave on good terms) are either highly-classified or just assholes in general.