1. Refuse to resign 2. Resign immediately 3. Buy time or ask for severance pay 4. Take legal or formal action
When a company asks you to resign, it clearly means that you are not required in your job. They have already decided not to have you. Reason could be your demonstrated behaviors, performance, ethical grounds, disciplinary action, company future plans or even company economic situation. If you refuse to resign, they may fire you. This is not good for our future career especially if there was a performance or disciplinary issue. Even otherwise, getting fired on paper is not good from a career point of view.
By doing this, may be, companies are ensuring their paperwork is correct.
If things get bad, taking legal action or formal action may be one more option you have, however it is a waste of time, efforts, money & can end up being cumbersome too. Such cases can go on forever & if one ends up losing the case, it can reflect badly on our career.
Buying time, reasoning it out with them, understanding context amicably & asking for time or severance pay is probably the best option. But then if this does not work out, resigning may be the best thing here. Starting to look for a job is probably the first thing one should do. Thoughts?
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