![]() Now, there were just seven employees including me left in the office alongside the general manager, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. By about the second week of June, I found out that I didn’t get my dream job, and I told one other person but made sure they didn’t tell anyone else.įast forward to the last week of June. This is where my malicious compliance kicked in. I found this very strange but quickly realised it was because if I handed in my notice, I wouldn’t be entitled to a payout, and the company would get to save a few thousand dollars. When I say everyone, I mean everyone… except me. It was a big job and a massive interview process, and toward the end of May, I was still in the running for this dream job, and by this point, pretty much everyone knew, wishing me luck.Īround came the start of June, and everyone started to get their redundancy letters, giving them twenty-eight days of official notice outlining their pay schedules and all legal entitlements. The recruitment process took quite a few weeks, many late-night Skype interviews, and general chats. I kept this quiet, telling only a handful of my closest friends at my current job. One of these was my dream job, based in Europe, working in the exact field I wanted to be in. Over the next five months, as operations were slowly winding up and people started to exit the company, I lined up a few job interviews. The handful who would remain would instead be made redundant after finishing their projects at the end of 2012. This was followed by management explaining that everyone except a handful of people would be made redundant with payouts. ![]() We learned that operations in Australia would cease on June 30th, 2012 - the end of the financial year in Australia. By this point, upper management couldn’t stay on top of everything, and they brought in the Chief Operating Officer of the parent company to oversee operations in Australia (because we had a lot going on, but the CEO was based in the UK and new).Īt this point, we had a group meeting where we learned about the future of the company. One was eventually found, and they began working in the UK location.Īfter a very busy 2011, hiring approximately thirty new employees, and launching a bunch of new products, business was booming… until the second week of January 2012. Toward the third quarter of 2011, the CEO’s contract ended and was not renewed, so the hunt began for a new CEO. I should also add that majority of our operations were in Australia while a smaller team operated in the UK, which is also where the CEO was based, despite 80-90% of products coming out of our office. Two months after I started, my direct boss, the general manager, was let go and not really replaced properly, but a consultant took over their responsibilities. I was thrown into the deep end, and a sleepless seven days followed, but by the end, I managed to do a decent job on the first of many products. I had a very specific contract for what I did. I was hired basically on the spot once I demonstrated my knowledge of the product that I would be working on, and I started two days later because of a deadline that had to be met. I started working for this particular company in March of 2011. This story takes place in Australia where we have very stringent laws around employment, firing, hiring, redundancies, maternity, etc.
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