7. Piss off enough number of higher management
First things first, you need to make sure you’re getting laid off. Hell, its a lot of $$$ man. You don’t want to take chances on this one. Make sure you reach out to everybody who matters and show them how insignificant you are to the overall vision of the company, how your sole purpose of showing up for work is for the subsidized food and free coffee, you really don’t care a damn about anybody else around you. It also helps if you pick a fight with a few key members of your group just to ensure they’ll bitch about you well in time for the layoffs.
6. Get your house in order.
Collect all your receipts, find and fill out all the paperwork for Flexible spending accounts, reduce your burn rate, defer major purchases and finally make a call for all the work that you’ve been putting off. Once you lose access to your corporate intranet website, you’d find half these things impossible to do and the other half would be complicated by people who wouldn’t bother listening to you after you’ve ceased to be the employee of the corporation. So stop procrastinating and get your house in order. Get all your proof of income, copies of paychecks etc that are available to you online only via your corporate intranet.
5. Change your email(s), recover lost password(s).
If you’ve been with your present employer for a while, chances are you’ve signed up for utilities, accounts and other such (your own personal stuff) via your company’s email address. Did you think that if you forgot your password, the only way (most of the time) possible to recover that is via your email address (to which you won’t have access)? This includes your Messenger accounts, your email accounts, utilities, shopping accounts and other such. Make a checklist of your bank accounts as well and run through a quick check of who has your employer’s mailing address. Switch them now before its too late.
4. Clean up after you.
Most companies won’t give you enough notice time. Don’t plan on cleaning up after you’ve been intimated. Expect less than half an hour at your desk. Clean it up, separate your personal belongings from those ‘never unpacked’ moving boxes. This goes for your laptop too. You shouldn’t have kept any personal information on your corporate laptop. The laptop is meant for official use only. Know that now and clean up. Remember, DO NOT ever try to copy code from your office. The code that you wrote belongs to the company and do not try to scuttle anything before you leave no matter how happy you feel.
3. Say your Hi(s) and Bye(s)
If you’ve been too busy with your work to ever notice anybody sitting around you, now is the time to say Hi to your neighbor. You’d be surprised at how many friends you could’ve made, grown your network. Eh, just a simple Hi will do for now since you’re such a busy person.
2. A 1000 Watt smile.
Finally, since you are feeling so happy, beam a 1000 Watt smile to everyone. Them people aren’t so lucky, you are getting laid (ahem, off), not them. Make them jealous. Smile like there’s no tomorrow. Make travel plans to Hawaii or your favorite escape. Now.
1. Forward this post to everyone you know.
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