1mo ago

Good Work if You Can Get It

You're viewing a single thread.

48 comments

Can't start? It's their problem if they can't process your resignation.
- Exactly. I don't know American laws, but I would submit my resignation by registered letter (I assume there are still doormen to receive those), and if they kept paying me I would put the cash in a savings account in case they ever remember to read the mail and notice they were paying me after quitting.
  
  It's not moving from one company to another.
  It's moving from the government regulator to a company regulated by that former employer. The rules on government conflicts of interest still apply, and you can't accept a paycheck from a regulated entity while you're still technically employed at the regulator.
  
  "regulated"
  "Lol" - Fascist oligarchs
  
  Assuming laws still matter, of course. It is 2025, after all. We're in the age of "What are you going to do if I don't?"
  
  I think it would probably be safer just to not cash the check from the previous employer.
  
  It's 2025 who still gets physical checks
  
  I do. Lot of people do. Though you can also remove access to your direct deposit account too. That's the same thing really.
  
  The US federal government pays by check?
- If the job is in an industry regulated by the fda it can be considered a conflict of interest and normal government employees would need to have that approved by an ethics committee
  
  Resigned. Not an employee.
  
  Until the resignation is processed they are an employee hence the paycheck. It’s an anti corruption regulation otherwise a person could get a job at a pharma company and on their last day at the fda try and push a bunch of approvals through. That type of corruption is reserved for members of congress, president, Supreme Court, and of course the special government employee
  
  Nah. Just because they still have you on payroll and haven't pulled your door card and logon does not mean you're still an employee. Resigned is resigned, whether the employer decides to handle their internal paperwork or stop paying you is irrelevant.
  
  I’m on my phone and don’t have the effort required to make the meme but until it’s processed it’s as official as Michael Scott’s “I declare bankruptcy”.
  
  Forcing someone to be your employee against their will is slavery, right?
  
  Nobody is being forced to do work… do you know what life was like as a slave and are just being incredibly tone deaf or do you not understand what slave labor actually is.
  When you have an oversight position you have to ensure there are no conflicts of interest the simplest method is to say you can’t work for another company while employed in that oversight position. The federal government tries to be even more accommodating and says you can even work at another company as long as you clear it with an ethics office. You are required to sign an employment contract where you agree to those terms if you want the original position.
  In order to be free from that contract you need to process a form. It’s really not the most ridiculous thing to ask from people in charge of oversight to have just the slightest anti corruption protections that cause the minor inconvenience of getting paid money to not work…
  This also wouldn’t even be a problem if the HR department was properly staffed instead of being recklessly cut as now they can’t handle a single employee taking leave which they are 100% entitled to
  
  He submitted the form, but nobody will process it and let him stop working for them. It's impossible for him to leave.
  
  The person who processes it is on leave. Shouldn’t people be able to take time off work and not have to think about work while they have time off?
  Ideally that department would have an extra employee so the HR rep can go on leave without affecting others. The negative is literally just getting paid not to work which isn’t really a negative and from the taxpayer perspective it’s cheaper to pay a person for a few days that they aren’t working than to have a position that remains underutilized the majority of the time.
  
  Some agencies have cool down clauses where the person who left willingly can't work on projects for that agency for a period of time after leaving.
  I can see this becoming an ethics problem for some agencies.
- Pretty sure there's no rule against having two jobs, especially if you don't have to go to one of them.
  
  Yeah this whole thing is bullshit.
  
  A lot of contracts have an exclusivity clause. So in that case they'd be vulnerable to breach of contract lawsuit.
  
  They are all unenforcable and illegal.

48 comments