• oce 🐆
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    6 hours ago

    To be fair this is a counterpart for being harder to get fired compared to some USA states. It makes the economy less fast to adjust but it makes people’s life less stressful.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      61 hour ago

      Europe’s economy is like an old Volvo. It’s slow but full of safety features in case your hit something. USA’s economy is like a classic Ford Mustang. It goes really fast on the straight but when you hit a bump things can go horribly wrong quickly. ~Mark Blyth

    • @Draghetta
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      246 hours ago

      IDK my man, having three months of forewarning for resignation sounds pretty cool to me. I don’t really see it as a downside. Especially in Italian law, where you can avoid making things awkward by agreeing with your employer to make the resignation time as short as you both want, as long as those three months are paid out. Blessed.

      • oce 🐆
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        46 hours ago

        It could make you miss you a job opening that needs someone earlier. Hadn’t have the issue myself, but I guess it happens.

        • @Valmond
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          21 hour ago

          You wouldn’t because everyone is expecting you to do the right, corporate thing, so they’ll gladly wait for you to gracefully terminate your old job.

          In tech anyways.

        • @Draghetta
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          206 hours ago

          If you’re hopping within the country, usually the local culture is adapted. I never had issues with it, employers expect you to have a resignation period.

          Plus as I was saying companies don’t really like to have a working quitter, so they will usually negotiate for that time to be shortened. Maybe one month so you can transfer your knowledge to somebody else, then you’re out - with the three months money, naturally.

          • zout
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            44 hours ago

            Three months would be excessive in the Netherlands. The legal minimum is one calendar month. When you resign you can always negotiate to shorten the period, but most of the time people will work the remainder of the contract. Also, your new employer might actually think there is something wrong if you can quit your current job faster than the one month.

            • @Draghetta
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              44 hours ago

              Yeah one month is the standard practice here too, as a negotiated shortening of the three month notice. It’s good to have the other two months paid out, that’s all I’m saying.