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Your priorities do not align with the company’s (trenchescomic.com)
6 points by Impossible on Aug 14, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


And this is why you need to make sure that you can live without a paycheck for 6 months to a year. Everybody needs F.U. money.

You never know when you will be shepherded into a room and asked for your badge. It can happen to anyone, and it can happen out of the blue for no apparent reason! In a case such as this when you happen to have a bad manager, or an ethically challenged company, you must always have contingency plans to handle this situation.

America's workplaces would be much different if everyone could weather a layoff without financial difficulties.


EA


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I'm pretty sure he worked for EA.




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