This seems to be a wise thread. I was laid off a few years ago for "cost cutting" reasons. I was very nice to my managers afterwords(days later). I told them where recent code was that they didn't know they needed and how to (and why) to make use of it. In the mean time I got a cool contract working on a StrongARM embedded Linux job(for less money). As luck would have it, when the contract was almost complete they asked me to come back for the same pay. I asked why they wanted me back and they mentioned my kindness(and their sorrow).
A(nother) suggestion for your problem would be to watch for up coming security matters that might effect them such as an exploit or virus and warn them of it right away. Just be careful how you warn them, some warnings can be taken as threats. You might even add how to combat the threat.
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I agree. I think this is a matter of aerodynamics.
This seems to be a wise thread. I was laid off a few years ago for "cost cutting" reasons. I was very nice to my managers afterwords(days later). I told them where recent code was that they didn't know they needed and how to (and why) to make use of it. In the mean time I got a cool contract working on a StrongARM embedded Linux job(for less money). As luck would have it, when the contract was almost complete they asked me to come back for the same pay. I asked why they wanted me back and they mentioned my kindness(and their sorrow).
A(nother) suggestion for your problem would be to watch for up coming security matters that might effect them such as an exploit or virus and warn them of it right away. Just be careful how you warn them, some warnings can be taken as threats. You might even add how to combat the threat.
Just a thought... it worked for me.