Has anyone ever had this happen, and if so, what choice did they make?
I've been with my employer, a large mid-west dealership, for over 22 years. I worked my way up to overseeing the finance and customer service department. I have 14 employees reporting to me.
Recently, the owner sold the dealership. On Tuesday, the new owner held a town hall where he discussed sales that were not what they used to be. This wasn't a surprise, and I knew this was why the owner sold the business before sales were so low the dealership would be unsellable.
The new owner said cuts would have to be made. Instead of laying off staff, he was going to have a 3rd party verify our backgrounds to see if anyone had lied on the application/resume. Those that did lie would be fired for cause. However, if we stepped forward before the end of next week, we'd still be fired, but we'd get 2 weeks severance.
I lied about having a degree from an out of state college.
What would you do if you were me?
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Anonymous
I think the new owner is hoping enough employees come forward saying they have false info on their resume or application and quit with the 2 weeks pay and no further need for lay offs. Not knowing how large of a company you work at is, but how long will it take a third party to complete an audit of everyone? Longer than 2 weeks? So even if you stay and they fire you at least you get more than 2 weeks pay.
Anonymous
You could step forward and at least get two weeks severance or just wait for them to find out and fire you with no severance pay. I'd take the severance.