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Dear Good Job,

I am currently in a legal dispute with my employer and my lawyer is negotiating a settlement. According to my lawyer, I need to keep showing up for work (online, thank god) until this is resolved. I’m not supposed to talk about the case with anyone at work, but I am supposed to keep doing my job. My manager has stopped assigning me things and they aren’t responding to my Slacks and cancelled our 1:1s. So far I’ve just been signing onto Slack and doing nothing. I do attend the team meetings but haven’t talked in them. I’ve asked my lawyer for more guidance on what to do or not do but he’s like, hey they’re not assigni

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