What started as a unexpected dismissal It ended up becoming a lesson in the value of work and experience. A woman, with eight years of experience in one multinational company dedicated to the tool makingwas fired shortly before her retirement.
The measure was part of a corporate order that demanded reduce payroll costs by 10%. However, months later, the company that had let her go came looking for her again… this time, with a much more attractive offer.
From early retirement to unexpected return
According to the case shared by the woman, in the forum of Reddit r/Employment and taken up by The Economic Timeshis dismissal was due to a decision by the department in his area, which chose to eliminate three positions to comply with the budget adjustment. Although I was close to retirementher salary was decisive in including her on the list.
After leaving, the employee began to collect the dole while taking advantage of the time to rest. According to The Times of Indiashortly after his departure, the two employees who remained after the cut resigned within a few weeks, just before the Christmas season, a key period for the company.
The situation forced the company to react, so it contacted it again. You They offered a salary slightly higher than the previous onebut under a temporary scheme that deprived her of benefits.
She refused, explaining that she was not interested in returning under those conditions. Then, he made his own proposal: a 13 week contracta four days a week, five days of paid vacation and a hourly pay almost double what I earned before.
Negotiating with experience is also an act of labor justice
The company immediately agreed. Upon rejoining, her main task was to train a new member of the team, but reality made her notice that little had changed since her departure. His former supervisor, a 65 year old purchasing managerremained disconnected from daily operations and, by his own account, even needed his help to issue purchase orders.
The worker shared that she took advantage of the situation to ironically remember how things worked before her dismissal. “Well, before I got fired, we used to do it like this,” he said, with a smile. His anecdote, reproduced by international media, sparked an online debate about the fragility of corporate decisions and the tendency to underestimate the value of experience in the face of salary cuts.
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