The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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You handled it more or less as I would have; you have to protect yourself and your family. You pretty much must be vigilant for the possibility where, you give a courtesy two weeks, and your employer marches you out immediately with paycheck implications to boot.
Your fiduciary duty to yourself and your family well-outweighs your fiduciary duty to your firm and your coworkers. Plus, you’ve already done good work for the firm, which can be depreciated/amortized over the course of your total employment.
Your coworkers should be able to deal with it just fine. If not, it’s management’s issue with regard to training and socialization of knowledge. Much of the compensation in knowledge jobs is for being able to absorb what your predecessors have done in the past, even if they were already in quiet-coasting or quiet-quitting mode.
Think of it as granting your current-colleagues a commitment device to take a step-up in their skill-set and responsibility, expanding their scope of ownership. By giving an effort as to make the new projects viable, you have already fulfilled any obligation to the firm.
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