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.
Just leave, tell them your two weeks started two weeks ago.
Or take a vacation and don’t go back.
Correct.
Absolutely correct.
I have been there—a funny story that may cheer you up....
I quit due to a horrid boss and moved on with my life.
About a year later I found out that this jerk had finally messed up badly enough that he had angered the big bosses above him.
They did not fire him.
They exiled him—to Australia.
It gets better.
After he was in Australia about a year, _then_ they fired him—and refused to pay his fare back to the US.
I agree with others. Go out with class. I agree you want to settle the score, but please don’t. In the long run, it never works to the scorned party’s advantage.
Why wait? Give a two day notice.
Sans context, generic advice:
- You may never see the doors of the company you leave, but you’ll very likely encounter your colleagues. Don’t do anything in the letter or your last days to spoil your relationship with them. Everything below follows from this principle.
- Notice is customary; therefore a custom, not a legal requirement. However, being customary, unless there’s a burning reason not to, do it. If the burning reason is yours, do it anyway (the valid reasons are things like the new place needs you to start immediately or you have to quit so as to move across the country, that sort of thing)
- A notice need not contain anything more than the fact and the date. Even if the whole thing was awful, you got hired there once, paid etc. so a generic like “Thank you for the opportunities at XYZ firm over the last (time)” is nice.
- My personal advice is stop there, even if it was particularly awesome or terrible. Save any happy good-byes for the people you worked with as personal outreach — any notice is still a professional communication.
- IMO keep all the emotions off social media. Giddiness at finally being out of that hellhole, joy at the huge raise, spiteful zings at that jerk, whatever — the internet never forgets. I have seen people ending up wanting to go back to where they once worked for happy and mediocre reasons ...
The current management may change after you leave. The pandemic will (i hope) go away. Give tbem the standard goodbye. Accent the good. Say you have found a position which is a better fit. If they are a bunch of incompetent buffoons they will implode. New management may want you back. In short...dont burn your bridges. Anywhere you go there are other sets of problems...
Look for a job first and obtain it and/or make them fire you. I understand if you quit you will not be eligible for unemployment.
My daughter quit a job that she really enjoyed. She left to go study overseas. Her boss asked for a resignation letter just for the record.
She wrote it inside a sympathy card.
She knew he read it when a huge laugh came roaring out of his office.
Good advice...don’t burn the bridges behind you.
I wish you provided more information here. Is your supervisor telling you to resign, or is she asking for your two-week notice because she thinks you’re going to quit on the spot without giving any notice?
Just write “I resign as of (insert date.)” Nothing more. Do not do an exit interview. Just leave. That is my recommendation and I have quit two jobs in the last year.
I would reject her request and use whatever time you have left finding another job. In 2017 I did just that. Horrible, horrible job, but I was good at it and so in an eight hour day, I could work a couple of hours and spend the rest schooling myself up for the career I’m in now.
I did this when I was 51, so it was a complete reinvention.
Get paid to look for your next job. She wants your resignation so she doesn’t have to pay for unemployment. Simple as that.
Make it short and sweet.
I have been there—a funny story that may cheer you up....
I quit due to a horrid boss and moved on with my life.
About a year later I found out that this jerk had finally messed up badly enough that he had angered the big bosses above him.
They did not fire him.
They exiled him—to Australia.
It gets better.
After he was in Australia about a year, _then_ they fired him—and refused to pay his fare back to the US.
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Ah, they sent him to the penal colony. Harsh!
Excellent, timeless advice.
Ditto double that…..so, now, four cents.
Same thing with a barber, a grocery store, a mechanic, etc. If they lose me, they’ve lost me...including any emotion.
To borrow a phrase from Shark Tank’s Mr Wonderful, “ You’re dead to me.” And leave it at that.
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