I quit a job in California. After my resignation, they sent me an email requesting that I confirm I turned over all employer property, and asked me to sign an agreement with the following:

Do I need to respond at all? Can I strike that if I don’t agree to that last statement? How should I handle this? We are a private university which is clearly engaged in unethical practices and I hope to submit a whistleblower complaint to the accreditation body.

  • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I am not a lawyer but i would ignore it. Unless they offer you a severance bonus or something and make it contingent on signing. If you’re not a fiduciary and nothing was in your original employment agreement, spill the beans once you’re free. Don’t lie or be emotional, keep it truthful and clean.

    • breetai@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Not a lawyer but recently used a lawyer for something similar. They are hoping you’ll sign it.

      Normally they tie it to a payment to get you to sign it.

    • surfrock66@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      No bonus. I was IT, and their system was designed to suppress wages and exploit workers. I was a tier 3 engineer everywhere before this, but the president demands everyone be brought in at a 1, then after “demonstrating competency” in 4 of these 6 areas he invented after 12 months you could move to a 2…After a year I was told my work wasn’t enough despite multiple objective major overhauls and improvements widely recognized by my peers and the organization’s faculty and staff. The president was going to buy tests for us to take, and never did. Then he fired our networking vendor (3 FTE’s) and expected me to pick up the work. In March, they posted a tier-3 network engineer position, and I applied for it and interviewed…and they cancelled the position, so I was left still doing the work for Tier 1 salary. The the president brought in a “consultant” who ended up being a family friend, who recommended we purchase expensive equipment through her consulting company which was completely unneeded and ultimately never worked and was left in a box. She insisted we needed new firewalls for our 2nd site (which had an MPLS back to us, where the traffic was all sent and ultimately went through our firewalls here). When she failed to deploy them, our director insisted that I figure out what she did, at which point he handed them to me, and they were not provisioned with our shared credentials. When asked for the credentials she refused to hand them over, which should have been the end of her employment. Instead, she was given decision making roles over additional higher-tier projects.

      Then we had a mass resignation including our director, and I was 1 of 2 left (out of originally 6 with an additional 4 FTE’s of contractors). Even now, they wouldn’t promote me to 2…they told me they would find more tests for me to take, then I’d be welcome to apply for a tier 2 position once they post it in the future. I left.

      The complication is my wife is faculty there, and we expect her to be retaliated against, but my documentation is ironclad, including of them intentionally not paying invoices from vendors while receiving services.