Posted on 11/01/2021 10:08:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I have been very unhappy at work lately.
I don't want a pity party, but my superior, stated that she wants a written two week notice.
I am not going to write a standard "I'm putting in my two weeks notice", but I wish to convey my discontent at current management.
I have worked there for almost 4 years and the last six months of 2019 were the most enjoyable of my work life.
The pandemic changed everything.
You, huh.
Sue her and the company.
“I don’t want a pity party, but my superior, stated that she wants a written two week notice.”
Nice to do, but in today’s culture and labor market, that pushy broad really can’t hurt you much. I’d skip the telling them what you think.
If you must, find some website where employees rate employers. But don’t waste your time telling them what for.
If I were smarter I would craft a statement that read forward was innocuous but read in reverse was a total slam.
Oh I’ve been there before around 20 years ago. I can imagine now they are 1000 times more insufferable with the commie indoctrination. Yeah get out of there because you know what’s coming next? CRT training.
I have never been asked such a thing and I would never comply.
My boss does not own me and if I'm treated unfairly I owe my boss nothing.
I am not their pawn. I am an autonomous, self-respecting man and no one tells me what I can and cannot do.
If you are being forced out do not put anything in writing. Make them write whatever they want.
The person who writes the letter is the person who provides evidence to be used against them. Everything else is hearsay.
No matter what you say to your current employer, NOTHING is going to change.
Do not wipe out a four year job reference because you want to pointlessly even the score for a couple minutes.
Your next employer only wants to know four things - dates of employment, job description, salary or wage history, and, are you eligible for re-hire?
Screw up one of those things, and your resume for a new job goes straight to the shredder.
Welcome back to the real world. It only hurts for a couple of minutes.
When you say you are unhappy with current management, do you mean your supervisor and the person above her? Or do you mean the C-suite level?
If it the C-suite level, don’t make things hard for your immediate supervisor and co-workers by writing anything in your resignation letter about your problems with management.
If you are happy enough with your supervisor and realize her hands are tied in lots of ways, make it clear in your letter that your leaving has nothing to do with her so that her managers cannot blame her.
If the problem is with your supervisor, write a letter of two sentences along the lines of, “This letter is written to inform you that I am resigning my position. Thank you for providing me with many valuable learning experiences over the last x years.”
I didn’t put a date when I resigned my last position, hoping they would actually tell me to gather my things a day after I submitted the letter. Instead it was two weeks later that they did that.
Either way, you can always send an anonymous letter to top managers a week after you leave and have had a chance to cool down a little and write up something analytical and not overly impassioned in which you state your concerns with the direction and behaviors of management.
I regret not doing this the last time I resigned a position. Several co-workers begged me to. I could have perhaps gotten some changes enacted, they hoped.
But as it turned out, my leaving did get noticed and the co-workers did get to air their concerns with the ridiculous workload and give recommendations and improvements were made.
If you are retiring and there is no risk from burning bridges, sign up for auto pay and then just stop working. They can’t fire you if they can’t find you!
If you still wish to work in the industry, write a professional “thank you for the opportunity, I hereby resign effective November 16, 2021” resignation, and give it to a higher-up. Do not give it to your rotten supervisor, and do not even tell them. Or just cc them on the email. Or wait for some meeting with the supervisor, and begin the meeting by handing them the notice, but you can still email it to the higher-up first, so your supervisor appears incompetent and out of the loop. Your letter should position you as the better, calmer and more professional person. You will likely be contacted for an “exit interview,” where you explain without emotion why you left.
If you are going to broadcast a letter to coworkers about how it has been nice to work with them all these years, compose that first so you can exit in a hurry. Avoid looking like a jerk to people who do not know your situation.
Don’t take the law the law into your own hands. Take them to court.
People do it every day. Part of their employment agreement.
On second thought, do not quit. Make them fire you so you get unemployment insurance.
Focus all your effort into getting your replacement job.
My coworker expected to be fired. She told H.R. she had been diagnosed as bipolar. Then she was unfireable.
I didn’t see your answer to the other person until after I posted my response because I was in the middle of writing it.
I like the suggestion of the person who recommended cc your supervisor but addressing it to her boss or higher. But write something short.
Whether or not you want to say much in an exit interview or to her boss if he or she should request a meeting depends on how much you think that person will care and what your sense is that a co-worker or two will be shortly following you in leaving or whether or not the unit your supervisor supervises will show a dramatic loss in productivity and quality due to your absence.
sorry about your work situation...
since when is a two-week notice part of your job description?
Think they give you a 2-week notice before they lay you off or fire you?
Think they give you a real reason?
Johnny Paycheck ‘em.
Backdate it 13 days and tell them this is your last day.
What are they going to do, not let you leave?
Good luck with whatever you decide...
If your boss cared about what you thought, he or she wouldn’t have made your recent work experiences so negative that you decided to resign. You’ll never get a zinger in so clever or hurtful that will cause them to reconsider their treatment of you or beg for your return. If you believe their work environment violated any regulations or laws, collect the appropriate evidence if you can do so legally and safely, and file the appropriate forms through the appropriate channels. Don’t expect that you won’t be abruptly locked out of accounts, physical accesses, email repositories, or files on your way out, corporations generally trust people who say they’re leaving less than people who say they’re staying.
Thinking you will hurt them as much as they hurt you is a mistake. The sooner they no longer have an effect on your psyche is the sooner you can call it a win.
If you want to give two weeks, give two weeks. If the company wanted to s###can you, they wouldn’t give you two weeks, they’d fire you with fifteen minutes to go in your day on a Friday before a holiday and not bat an eyelash. The two weeks notice is just a professional courtesy when you are leaving under friendly terms to make the transition smooth and give the company a chance to hire a replacement and possibly start training them.
If you need out for your own sanity, turn in your badge and any company-owned assets first thing in the morning, say your goodbyes to your coworkers, and close the chapter on that part of your life when your boss is in a meeting or out to lunch. Don’t expect to get rehired later by the same company, nor any help landing a job in a similar industry.
Good luck, and focus on moving to the next thing, not on how you get any points across (valid or not) on your way out the door.
If they want your resignations, negotiate for a severance package. If they don’t give you what they want, don’t resign.
Then all they can do is fire you, and give you the standard severance.
If you’re going to keep working be nice. If you’re retiring tell them “to pissoff” as the Brits say. I sent an email to HR the first of September in 2015. I would be retiring as of the 1st day of October. Mom’s 85 birthday was October 12th and I will be 1200 miles away the same day Bye.
They screwed me out of 4 hours of accured leave but I still enjoyed mom’s birthday. Good luck, be safe.
Will you need them for a reference? If so, you might not want to burn your bridges.
Two week notice?
Two minutes is enough.
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