Remote employee plans to quit for a new job after getting hit with return-to-office mandate, walks away with 7 months’ severance instead: 'I am still laughing'

Sometimes the universe hands you the kind of plot twist that makes all the bad Zoom meetings worth it.

Earlier this year, this longtime employee's company was bought out, and everything changed overnight. The new management rolled in with micromanagement, culture shifts, and a looming return-to-office requirement. For this worker, who lived more than two hours from the nearest office, that was a dealbreaker. So, like any sensible person, they started job-hunting.

By last month, they'd landed a new role just minutes from home, with better pay and only two in-office days per week. Their plan was to give two weeks' notice, take a short break, and start the new gig refreshed.

Then fate intervened.

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Days before resigning, they were called into a meeting and told that anyone living outside commuting distance could take a seven-month severance package instead of returning to the office.
They kept their poker face, waited 24 hours, and accepted. Now they’re starting their new job after three weeks off — with seven months’ pay and a bonus on the way.
Sometimes, the evil corporate world actually works in your favor.
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