Switching Jobs. Is this fair to my current employer?

[SKORPI0]

They wouldn't give you a 2 week warning if they decided terminate you. If they really wanted to keep a valuable employee, an counter offer should have been given. Congrats on the 2x income.

[RagingBITCH]

Originally Posted by senttoschool

Not being cocky at all and I don't think every person higher up is an idiot. Most are very intelligent or they wouldn't have gotten there even if they had connections.

Here's an example of something I saw from one of my clients:

-CMO convinced board to give him $3 million to redesign the site
-CMO promised double or triple the traffic after
-Site is redesigned and launched.
-The first day, none of the engineers or online marketing directors could figure out why their traffic completely dropped. My boss, who was trying to get them as clients at that time figured out immediately that they blocked Google from crawling their site with robots.txt file. This is a mistake that small businesses can make - not multinational major company.
-Even after fixing this issue, they completely screwed up their site architecture and technicalities and traffic dropped by 50%
-I was brought on to figure out why their traffic still dropped
-Figured out that their staging site was actually public, their search engine optimization was non-existent, their URL redirects were done by an intern and supervised by a senior manager.
-In the end, we were able to regain their traffic but their CMO got demoted, one VP got fired, 3 managers laid off

This is a repeated pattern that I see with major companies. Instead of hiring the person with a many years of experience, they should hire people who are great at one thing and good at other things. Valve, the makers of Steam, does hiring this way and they have been extremely successful.

Well, it's not going to stop or end there. Just piss poor planning. As much as it pains me to say it, this is why companies hire on the IBM/Accentures of the world. I concur that there are idiots, but there will always be idiots like this that exist, hence, the reason consultants like you have a job.

[Schfifty Five]

Originally Posted by Red Squirrel

Really, like from the company itself? Did not know this. Never had it happen to me, thankfully.

Most employers have to pay a FUTA and/or SUTA tax related to their payroll expenses. Those two taxes are unemployment taxes the company pays to the state or fed gov't and I guess goes into an unemployment pool. If you get laid off or fired for non-policy breaking reasons, the gubment send you money from that pool. I think that's how it works.