Layed Off Or Quit... What's the Difference?

There is a huge difference. When you quit, it means you have already figured out your choices and chose the better place for u or atleast reaised this is not the best place for you. When you are laid off, you are shocked and that is when you start thinking of your future choices!

You posted something like this on your blog I think Ted and I'm going with the power/control issue. When you quit a job, the power and control is in your hands. You probably have another job or something lined up waiting for you. When you're laid off, you have lost the power and control, instead the company/boss has all the control over you in a way. Now you have an urgency to find a new source of income. Everyone needs to make choices that better themselves or their company. I'm not going to boycott a company because they had to lay people off.

We workers are not satisfied with anything, at last. But come on! Companies are the money and the offers and workers are the ones who fight to make a living. Yes, it is acceptable for a company to lay off people because it goes no where, but at least lay off them with a price, that means pay them off and give them some money to live till they find a job. And don't lay off people that are older and it's hard for them to find a job. Loyalty must be rewarded.

Well if you are to walk in tomorrow and say i Quit, then you have all the power and control and you are choosing to quit but if you are layed off then that power and control is in your bosses hands! i hope that helps explain it a little!

The difference is: When a worker QUITS a job, he/she is making the choice to leave. When a worker is LAID OFF, the worker didn't have to make a choice, the company did.

Most companies can lay you off without warning. Yes they may have to pay unemployment but that depends on the why's and where for's. If you quit a company most, in order to give you a good reference, demand that you give at least a two week notice. If you don't they can decide to say they won't hire you back and thus it reflects negatively on you when you apply someplace else. So yes the corporations have a great deal of power. Now that power gets even more if you work in a state like Florida where it's a Right To Work state. Here they can fire you for any reason. They don't even need one. Yes they have to pay unemployment if you have been with them long enough to earn it (which is far more then just ninety days) and if they don't give good cause but this does not stop some companies from hiring people planning to fire them right before they would qualify. Yes they do that a great deal in this state or at least in the area I live in. So no I don't think it's an even balance between companies and the common man.

laid off you can collect unemployement...quit nope..

There is a big difference when you quit that is or choice maybe you got a better offer at a new company layoff is when company's are down sizeing and you could be out of work and not get called back. And there is a certain amount of time you can collect umempolyment money.

It's quite simple really. If you quit your job, you are the one making that decision. Either you have another job lined up, or just can't stand doing what you do anymore, or many other reasons. If you are laid off, then the decision is not yours to make, just yours to accept. Your employer has made that decision for you.

Being layed off is what happens when the Company no longer needs as many workers. Quitting is what an individual does when he no longer wants to work for a company.

due to the advancement in the technology the employees are reduced.

While part of what you say is true,don't you even question how fair it is?The large corporations,already rich,are downsizing companies here only to open factories in other countries,where the smae parts are manufactured cheaper and closing the plants here,True,they are looking to keep the dollars in their pockets,but so are we.This has happened to me this year,along with 465 other people.All the people working there had been there 10 to 20 yrs. and no one was looking for another job.We were making good money,which we needed to support our families,and had a good benefit package,which we also needed to provide healthcare for our families.We loved our jobs and our company,and even each other!Now,through fault of our own,we have been stripped of these things and have start back at square one.Gone is the money,the benefits,and the years put in.If this had ever happened to you,you would not be asking this,I think.

layed off means the company had to fire ppl cuz of w/e reason. quit is when the person takes it upon themselves to remove themselves from a job.

U r right. No difference. Each one is working in its own best interest. But job left by one is just another thing while ''THOUSANDS OF WORKERS LAID OFF'' makes a great headline. What do u think??

They are not the same at all, being layed off is being let go without a choice, the company makes the choice for you, quitting is leaving the job by your own choice. They might still need you but you decide to leave, when they lay you off they don't need you anymore.

If you quit then choice is in your hands,so if the next employer asks your reasons for quitting you can give a respectable answer. If you are laid then next employer can think may be you were inefficient or some negative point.Thus quitting is better.

Well most people dont quit a job unless they are either just mad or have found a better offer, fortunatly 80% of the people dont quit onless they already have somithing lined up and usually they will give the 2 weeks notice so they can get good refences , now if you are laid off , you have the option of getting unemployment benefits , wich is good but not great about 1/3 of what you would normally make but these days if you have cc's etc you can get that ins plan that will pay your min balance and such if you are laid off but you have to send them proof.. i think as for hating the "man" but congratulating the worker really biols down to the fact that alot of these people depend on that job and most of them have ebeen there for years or planned on being there and climbing the ladder etc but these big comanies only see them as $ signs and they all just think of the bottom line , and well at the bottom line , there are families to feed and some parents out there wondering just where they are gonna find another job like hat when their job was taken over by a machine or an over sea worker .... i hope im making sense .. but i really dont think we value our american workers here much and that upsets me but what can we do other than do our best to support comanies that employ hard working americans ?? ~M~ ~*~ wife to a hard workin steel man ~*~ next time your pumping gas thank him and his crew for helping to make the pipe to get that oil to make that gas ..... He as well as alot of others do the dirty jobs so you dont have too ;)

Many times if you are "laid off" you will receive compensation in various forms from the company (that is different than being fired for doing something wrong, then the company will give you nothing). If you quit you will receive no benefits.

Layed off is basically the company firing you on "friendly" terms, it means your services are no longer needed. Quitting is you not liking what's happening and you resign from the position you hold meaning that your position stay in tact and will be there after your gone unlike being layed off, it disappears basically.

laid off means you got fired and quit means you walked off.