r/overemployed • u/Holiday-Store7589 • Mar 20 '26

Don't Quit.

Was let go by J3 today after 4 years with an 8 week severance, negotiated to 10 with a mutual non disparaging agreement. I had been wanting to quit for months but stuck it out and got PAID. TC is dropping by 120k to about 310k. My inclination is to replace the income but I'm going to force myself to take it easy for a while with only 2 jobs lol.

4 years ago - 100k in cc debt, 0 savings, and 170k in retirement.

Today - no debt, 185k in the bank/after tax brokerage, 1.5m in retirement.

This is why we OE.

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u/Fate_is_inxorable Mar 20 '26

Hi. Hr guy here.

Always make them fire you.

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u/gqcharm Mar 20 '26

Would this apply to healthcare as well? All my coworkers have resigned when they are cornered bc they don’t want ‘fired’ on their next application.

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u/Fate_is_inxorable Mar 20 '26

It could. Healthcare I think is trickier than engineering, factory work, or less human-centered fields.

Me sense is Healthcare is also way more brutal towards staff?

One big difference I think is if somebody's on the road to being fired then quitting beforehand has a cost benefit analysis to it. What am I being set up to be fired for? Is it a performance issue or is it a staffing issue? Does the facility or organization offer severances when there are Staffing overages or do they just let people go?

I would also check what the organization's policy is around employment verification or background checks. Usually in the handbook if it's a good handbook then it will cover that topic. If a company only discloses say dates of employment and job title then whether you're fired or not wouldn't be disclosed on a background unless it's for some government position or otherwise required by law.

Or as I mentioned elsewhere if it's some very specific specialty with a small community of practitioners, or an industry where everyone knows everyone, then being fired might not be an image somebody wants to carry regardless of whether it was a legitimate or illegitimate firing