Just had interview, seemed ok.. but not sure.
In the end it's the same role, different customer, and seemed like they had friday afternoon fun.
Anyways.. it's friday
Should be a decent pay-out at least. Job market sux tho so don't bet it on red immediately.
I worked for a small company that deferred paying bonuses on the basis that they were pursuing an acquisition / external investment (reading between the lines I think they may have had cash flow challenges following very rapid headcount growth as they started laying off contractors), so instead of being paid in March it was going to be Q4 or maybe September. They eventually announced the acquisition in December but I'd left by then as my pending bonus and share vestment weren't worth that much. I think these sort of bonus handcuffs only help retention for people with big bonuses or where the timeframe isn't too long. A lot of the time if you are going to have to wait 6 months+ for a bonus already accrued then you might take the view that you are better off moving to a higher paid role meaning you are earning more, you will get a bigger pro-rata bonus next year, etc.
Yeah. I applied for a job at a previous employer that I'd left on good terms with and exceeded expectations in my last performance review. I'm confident I could have done a good job of it (pending a conversation about what it entailed), maybe not top 5% but warranted a phonecall I would have thought. Most of the the management and recruiters I worked with had left by then though. I got a generic rejection email, it was a speculative application as I wasn't certain I wanted that job so I decided not to waste any energy following it up.
Switch off and just do the bare minimum to get by, plan a holiday or just spend the time off doing your hobby. You should feel relief, leaving a toxic workplace does wonders for your mental health - it did for me anyways. lol
