[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How to resign (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/22/2005 8:54:36 AM EDT
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Im leaving this job I have recently started due to locating another one with better pay, I had begun looking into the job when I was still at my previous one but only today things went through. Wants the best way to resign |
Honesty plus sincerety and quick. Shok |
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Submit a polite letter informing them that you have been provided with a career opportunity you believe you must pursue. Let them know that you have enjoyed working with them and that you wish them the very best (whether you do or not). Don't mention where you're going, or that you'll be making more money, or how much of a cheap asshole your boss is. Give at least two week's notice. |
I'd forgotten about that!
That's the professional way to do it. That way, they should still give you a good reference, too. Congrats on the new job, Taxman! |
| I worked with a guy that walked up to the supervisor and yelled in her face for all on the floor to hear "you are a fucking cunt I fucking hate you!!!". It seemed to get him out of there pretty fast. He worked there for all of about 10 more minutes after that before being escorted off of the property. |
| Short and sweet like Subnetmask said. Don't say where you are going or anything else about pay, etc. Also, be sure to wipe any personal files from your PC and get important stuff out of your office before handing them the letter... you just never know how they may react. |
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Hope it went well, Taxman. The right thing to do is give notice, but unfortunately, so many places won't let you work it out, they cut you loose on the spot. (That isn't a bad thing when you have the opportunity to start the new job right away, or the funds to enjoy a little "vacation" in between jobs.) Good luck with the new job! |
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My best resignation story: I worked for a small IS startup back in 2000 right after the IT bubble broke. We created CRM software for small businesses. There were 10 of us plus our POS owner who couldn't tell a catch statement from a piece of corn in his shit. He had a pile of money from a "civil rights" settlement from his previous company, so he figured that he could hire some developers, steal some ideas from his old company, gerry rig up some software and make a pile of money. We started out fairly well, but we noticed that our business seemed to be declining fairly rapidly (probably because WE HAD NO FRICKIN' BUSINESS PLAN). We asked repeatedly how the business was doing financially . . . which was none of our business, but in a small business usually there is a bit more transparency. We were always told that we were doing great because of royalties and licensing fees that we were collecting from our present clients. I smelled bullshit. I was good friends with the secretary and I finally convinced her to start "monitoring" Larry's calls. When the phone would ring, she would conference him in and mute her end. Three days later he received a call from an investor that she listened in on. In the call he basically said that he was going to keep his mouth shut, close the business, lock the doors, pocket our checks, and laugh thinking about us beating on the doors trying to figure out what was going on. She told us . . . and we immediately packed all of our stuff, threw it in our cars, and left WITHOUT LETTING LARRY KNOW. I would love to have seen his face when he lumbered out of his office and finally noticed that everyone was gone. I would have paid money for that. He ended up in court because of certain clauses in our support contracts that he had failed to notice. For some unknown reason, I also got my last check  Disconnector |
Just copy the following letter and replace *** with your name and *** *** with your supervisor... BTW, this was an actual letter that was sent to EVERYONE in the company via email... We still talk about this letter. One of the best I've read. Hello everyone, My name is ***, I am leaving ***. I will use my last vacation day on Monday the 29. My official last day of employment will be April 30, 2002. The reason is well there are allot of reasons. First is when I was interviewed the interview consisted of Cad questions and solutions basically the questions were for a product designer. After I arrived at *** my supervisor *** *** had a review of me and told me my new duties. The duties he described were for a applied engineer. One I didn't have the education or the experience, not to mention I hate engineering duties I was not qualified to feel that role. The year progressed and I could tell *** *** was getting frustrated that I wasn't doing more engineering duties. To tell you the truth I was a designer, not a engineer. The whole time I was at *** I didn't design one thing. At every review *** *** told me there was more 3D modeling coming its been a year and all I've done is archive and most of the models were already in Cad. On a personal note my wife became pregnant and in the last two months of her pregence there were complications. I was having to use allot of vacation day and sick days to take care of her after she was confined to bed. The whole time I was coping with that *** *** was harsh and aggravated with my work. Saying I wasn't putting enough into my work. I have done everything I was ask to do here at ***. When I was told have it done by lunch I would have it to them before that. I am good at my work. Back to the personal reason. I told *** *** that I will be using most of my vacation days for the delivery of my new daughter before my wife went into labor. Well during the labor I left countless voice messages to *** keeping him updated, even the one about that they found something in my daughters blood. With that complication I used most of my vacation days. After I returned back to work I had my personal review. It was more like a chewing out. He talked down to me getting on to me like I was some dog that broke something. He jumped me for taking allot of vacation days, also he restricted my phone calls to one a day. Even though most of the Calls I received were from my wife during her pregence telling me how she felt and keeping me updated. I have never received such a bad review. What makes things worst in the whole review that was supposed to be for a product designer one one place talked about my cad skills and he gave me a low mark. I would like to tell you I have never been given a low mark on my cad skills. In school I had 4.0 average in Cad skills. I even had a 4.0 in a year long specialty school for Cad. My last job I received high marks on my review, and my old supervisor's direct words were there's nothing *** cant do when it comes to 3D models. I would give him something and he would get the job done. But in my review with *** he didn't think so. I am glad I'm leaving ***, I was going to end my work days with this company but sense the way *** treated me I'm getting out of here. One last thing, when my wife and I were in the hospital and going threw the complications of here bad news about our daughter I received one phone call from my supervisor, and no cards or flowers or anything telling us that hey the *** family is thinking of you. Only one person gave us a gift of love and I wanted to thank *** and I hope God blesses you and your family that one gift was the most wonderful gift we received. Thank you all for your time and I hope you have good fortune. Sincerely *** |
A week? Don't feel too bad...the first 3 months or so are basically a trial period, anyway. In theory, they can can you for any cause/reason in that 3 month period...At least, that's the way it seemed to work back in NY. You found a better opportunity, and it's time to move. No worries. |
That was hilarious!|
IF you've only been there a week it would have been far better to go to your Boss IN PERSON and tell him one of the other companies you had interviewed with gave you a better offer and find out if they can do anything. This gives them the chance to counter offer. It happens, some companies are slow in getting offers out. If they can do something to keep you they will, if they can't than there will be far fewer hard feelings. In fact you just might have a few guys tell you to go for it. Just sending an E-mail "I'm out of here" is personally insulting to just about everybody involved in the hiring process. But to not give them a chance is a major bridge burning. Depends on what you do, it might not ever matter, but if you are in a relatively small professional field in a small area of a few companies, chances are you will run across one of the guys again. |
It would have been funny if they had rehired him and fired him the next day a la the dumped girlfriend who begs a guy to take her back so SHE can dump him. |