@maique It was a very nice severance package tho. It would be hard to not take six months paid.

@maique Here, in the tech world at least, the only way you get any real time off is the break between jobs. Having six months would be amazing.

@pimoore I’ve got a new project I’m gettting off the ground—my current buisness has used Basecamp for, at least, five years. In a few months, it’ll be interesting to see the impact of this. From a public (and employee) relations perspective it sure seems like it could have been handled better.

@maique Wow! 😳 Now I’m feeling jittery about its products.

@crossingthethreshold yeah, wondering about longevity

@maique it’s not easy to find good developers, wry high demand always, and it’s even harder when it’s well known that a lot of people are leaving.

@maique a former employer of mine have a very hard time recruiting and usually end up filling open positions with consultants at 2-3 times the cost

@maique I’ve always been thinking that I’d take a severance package if offered and probably find a new job very fast, and pocketing x months of salary

@mcg @maique But… Does there company policy support getting severance of someone quits of their own accord because that would be… Unusual.

@hjertnes in USA many severance agreements say you stop getting it when you start a new job. Hard to enforce though.

@toddgrotenhuis I’ve always had the impress they’re a one time payout

@mikehaynes Ah, noted. Thanks!

Yes, hard to pass up in the current environment.

@patrickrhone it’s common here when companies are going to scale down to volunteer for a severance package

@rnv I agree.

@rnv Not disagreeing exactly, but I think there’s a middleground too… Someone who was already thinking they’d probably leave in 1-2 years, maybe to do their own thing, but they don’t have savings or health insurance. For them, 6 months pay accelerates that 1-2 years to “now” pretty easily.

@pimoore I do think that that is a part of this whole episode that is not been talked about. Plenty of people congratulating themselves on never using their products, but I imagine plenty quite happy with what they are using and wondering what next? Do they stay or move on (for all sorts of reasons)?

@maique I hear you. I have two months to run on my subscription. I joined last year after hearing about it on Micro.blog when it was still pre-release. I was not handling my email well and HEY has helped, a lot. I have had concerns about being locked in, but overall I was happy with my experience. I’ll keep en eye on what happens next, but will probably use the next two months to migrate elsewhere…and tell all those who I have asked to use my HEY address to now use this new one! 🙄😁