That was a "nice" thing to do for an employer booting you out the door. You could have given your customers your cell phone number and offered to contract them at a more favorable rate than your soon to be ex-employer. It's not like you were in danger of losing a big severance.
That was a "nice" thing to do for an employer booting you out the door. You could have given your customers your cell phone number and offered to contract them at a more favorable rate than your soon to be ex-employer. It's not like you were in danger of losing a big severance.
I didn't want to screw over my clients, and I knew that my manager didn't want to let me go. It came from corporate HQ. I was a Novell specialist, and the level of Novell service calls had been steadily going down. They did ask me to help their Novell clients "off the record," if I could, and it did help somewhat while I was unemployed. But now that I've got a full time + job, I can't help them anymore, and they've had to find new sources of support.
Actually, one reason that they let me go was because "I wasn't a Windows expert." Funny, the 3 clients who had problems that they used for that reason never were able to get the problems solved by my old company, even when they called in "Windows experts" from out of town. And now I work in a Windows shop, and my boss thinks that I'm pretty darn good at fixing serious Windows problems. I'm sort of happy they lost business because of letting me go, but then again, it was a business decision, and the company was crap to work for.
My new company is SO much better.
Mark