Contract Expiration and Bonus

Quick question to the room, am on the way out in a week due to contract not being renewed, have to stay through then to receive bonus. Am paranoid about U5 form saying involuntarily discharged. Would it be worth it to resign on my own and forgo the bonus? Any way to have cake and eat it too? Thank you all. 

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No absolutely do not do that lol. you will receive your bonus and there will not be any mark on your FINRA about it

A mark against you on a U5 is if the firm literally fires you - sexual assault, leaking deals, insider trading. Contract not being renewed is not being fired. It's a whoooollleeee FINRA process to involuntarily discharge someone that follows you around forever and firms do everything they can to avoid it. I know someone who did one of those three and despite being fired on the spot the firm still marked it as not on the U5 because no one wants to blackball someone like that

 

Sorry I was unclear - edited my comment. There is always a U5 involved even if you resign on your own... it's just a very normal form ending the registration. You are not involuntarily discharged if your contract is just up

unless you are accused of misconduct (like an actual securities or law violation or were fired truly for cause) there is no reason the U5 will be an issue. Contract ending happens literally all the time. Even if your performance wasn't good you are not being fired for cause, your contract expiring is a non-event. they are just filing a required regulatory form to "unregister" you basically

TLDR you are worried about nothing

 

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