ProTip: Offer your services back to them as a consultant for an exorbitant hourly rate. It isn’t unusual to make three times what you would have made in a year, in just six months.
SOURCE: My firm has facilitated this for our clients’ ex-employees – whom they fired to begin with – a number of times.
Not really. It’s because normally the consulting engagement runs for about six months. Most of the time, the ex-employee has something lined up after that and the company has had a chance to hire replacements (almost always plural) and have them trained by the exiting employee. If this all sounds desperately inneficient, its because it is. Some exec fucked up, but they’ll never admit it, and the manager isn’t complaining because they now have more head count and a bigger budget.
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ProTip: Offer your services back to them as a consultant for an exorbitant hourly rate. It isn’t unusual to make three times what you would have made in a year, in just six months.
SOURCE: My firm has facilitated this for our clients’ ex-employees – whom they fired to begin with – a number of times.
What a weird way of saying “6 times as much”.
Not really. It’s because normally the consulting engagement runs for about six months. Most of the time, the ex-employee has something lined up after that and the company has had a chance to hire replacements (almost always plural) and have them trained by the exiting employee. If this all sounds desperately inneficient, its because it is. Some exec fucked up, but they’ll never admit it, and the manager isn’t complaining because they now have more head count and a bigger budget.