Resign(ation) patterns
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Saw Nemanaja's thread on Resign Patterns, and thought it might be different ways to turn in one's resignation. Had an interview which went well this morning. I've got a good, but not great, feeling about it. I rather expect that I'm not going to be able to stop myself from burning bridges. Our development group got swallowed up by this company which is contracted to provide network support, and they've pretty much screwed up everything in the transition. So, what's everybody's best (whatever that means to you) resignation story?
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Saw Nemanaja's thread on Resign Patterns, and thought it might be different ways to turn in one's resignation. Had an interview which went well this morning. I've got a good, but not great, feeling about it. I rather expect that I'm not going to be able to stop myself from burning bridges. Our development group got swallowed up by this company which is contracted to provide network support, and they've pretty much screwed up everything in the transition. So, what's everybody's best (whatever that means to you) resignation story?
At my previous company I was sent on a Management Development Program that ran once a month for a year. The culmination of this was an individual presentation to the board about why I was important to the company and that sort of thing. During the course of the year I was on the course I became increasingly disillusioned with the place, and eventually found myself a new job and the timing was such that I wrote my presentation as a resignation speech explaining exactly what I thought was wrong with the place and why I wanted to leave. It is with deep regret that I have to go on to report that due to problems with getting the board together to receive our presentations it kept getting called off and in the end I had to just scribble a note and hand it to my manager. The story does pick up a bit here, I was at that time heading up a team of two that was re-writing our entire system. The other lad had already handed in his notice by the time I got there that day. Neither of us knew the other was going to do that. The IT Director hasn't spoken a single word to me since the moment I handed my notice in, I had to serve 6 weeks notice and have been at a few functions where he has been in the nearly 4 years since I left.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Saw Nemanaja's thread on Resign Patterns, and thought it might be different ways to turn in one's resignation. Had an interview which went well this morning. I've got a good, but not great, feeling about it. I rather expect that I'm not going to be able to stop myself from burning bridges. Our development group got swallowed up by this company which is contracted to provide network support, and they've pretty much screwed up everything in the transition. So, what's everybody's best (whatever that means to you) resignation story?
Well if you *really* don't care you could always try this: Don't quit! Just stop showing up for work. First take vacation time. Then perhaps call in sick, maybe contract some voracious disease. After a miraculous recover perhaps take a day off from the new job and pop in at the old one just to show your face. Perhaps you can work from home. Then maybe just stop communicating and see how long it takes before you get axed. Perhaps it's possible you could nurse this along and get 2 salaries for as long as a month or two.
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Well if you *really* don't care you could always try this: Don't quit! Just stop showing up for work. First take vacation time. Then perhaps call in sick, maybe contract some voracious disease. After a miraculous recover perhaps take a day off from the new job and pop in at the old one just to show your face. Perhaps you can work from home. Then maybe just stop communicating and see how long it takes before you get axed. Perhaps it's possible you could nurse this along and get 2 salaries for as long as a month or two.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
I've seriously considered just doing the Office Space thing, and just not going any more. I've (so far) come the decision that I'm not going to actively try to get fired, but I'm not going to do anything to stop it, either. I mean, I didn't bother to tell anyone that I'd be out this morning, or request any time off or anything. I just didn't show up. I like the people (mostly) with whom I work, so I'm going to try to figure out a way to savage the organization and the incredibly poor manner in which they handled the transition, but not my before-and-after coworkers. (Well, with the possible of a couple of them who fall squarely in Scott Adams' definition of cow-workers).
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I've seriously considered just doing the Office Space thing, and just not going any more. I've (so far) come the decision that I'm not going to actively try to get fired, but I'm not going to do anything to stop it, either. I mean, I didn't bother to tell anyone that I'd be out this morning, or request any time off or anything. I just didn't show up. I like the people (mostly) with whom I work, so I'm going to try to figure out a way to savage the organization and the incredibly poor manner in which they handled the transition, but not my before-and-after coworkers. (Well, with the possible of a couple of them who fall squarely in Scott Adams' definition of cow-workers).
Well just be sure you don't do anything that gets you in any legal hassles. I don't really see what they could do other than just fire you, if it goes on for a while then the yolk's on them for not keeping track of their employees.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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I've seriously considered just doing the Office Space thing, and just not going any more. I've (so far) come the decision that I'm not going to actively try to get fired, but I'm not going to do anything to stop it, either. I mean, I didn't bother to tell anyone that I'd be out this morning, or request any time off or anything. I just didn't show up. I like the people (mostly) with whom I work, so I'm going to try to figure out a way to savage the organization and the incredibly poor manner in which they handled the transition, but not my before-and-after coworkers. (Well, with the possible of a couple of them who fall squarely in Scott Adams' definition of cow-workers).
agolddog wrote:
I'm going to try to figure out a way to savage the organization
Rip 'em to shreds!
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Well if you *really* don't care you could always try this: Don't quit! Just stop showing up for work. First take vacation time. Then perhaps call in sick, maybe contract some voracious disease. After a miraculous recover perhaps take a day off from the new job and pop in at the old one just to show your face. Perhaps you can work from home. Then maybe just stop communicating and see how long it takes before you get axed. Perhaps it's possible you could nurse this along and get 2 salaries for as long as a month or two.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
I worked with a guy that did that for 4 months while on the hook to write an entire CMS system. He then handed off the few pages he had mocked up and people had to scramble to make that crap work.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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Saw Nemanaja's thread on Resign Patterns, and thought it might be different ways to turn in one's resignation. Had an interview which went well this morning. I've got a good, but not great, feeling about it. I rather expect that I'm not going to be able to stop myself from burning bridges. Our development group got swallowed up by this company which is contracted to provide network support, and they've pretty much screwed up everything in the transition. So, what's everybody's best (whatever that means to you) resignation story?
I replaced a guy that got so annoyed that security was so lax at the company, he overrode the IE home page of everyone on the domain to monster.com. They figured there was only one security issue. :doh:
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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I worked with a guy that did that for 4 months while on the hook to write an entire CMS system. He then handed off the few pages he had mocked up and people had to scramble to make that crap work.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
So he blew off his old job for 4 months while working somewhere else? 2 paychecks? Wow, that's impressive (not as impressive as the Force, but still...).
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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I've seriously considered just doing the Office Space thing, and just not going any more. I've (so far) come the decision that I'm not going to actively try to get fired, but I'm not going to do anything to stop it, either. I mean, I didn't bother to tell anyone that I'd be out this morning, or request any time off or anything. I just didn't show up. I like the people (mostly) with whom I work, so I'm going to try to figure out a way to savage the organization and the incredibly poor manner in which they handled the transition, but not my before-and-after coworkers. (Well, with the possible of a couple of them who fall squarely in Scott Adams' definition of cow-workers).
I've gotten disgruntled and fed up with awful places to work before. It sucks. I've learned that checking out like that didn't help me feel any better, and only ended up inconveniencing people that cared even less than I did. I recommend really looking for a good place to end up, or committing to fixing where you are.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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So he blew off his old job for 4 months while working somewhere else? 2 paychecks? Wow, that's impressive (not as impressive as the Force, but still...).
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
It was bad management, and the guy pulled it off was a total sleeze. I don't know if I'd value the extra money for the bad karma. Before I witnessed it first hand it seemed like a way to stick it to the man. Once I saw what it really was, it's theft.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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Saw Nemanaja's thread on Resign Patterns, and thought it might be different ways to turn in one's resignation. Had an interview which went well this morning. I've got a good, but not great, feeling about it. I rather expect that I'm not going to be able to stop myself from burning bridges. Our development group got swallowed up by this company which is contracted to provide network support, and they've pretty much screwed up everything in the transition. So, what's everybody's best (whatever that means to you) resignation story?
Don't burn any bridges. I started showing up for 4 hour days my last week, but I was still coding my last hour of my last day (I only showed up for an hour that day). If you are going to remain living in the area, it can get worse. It's a small world and it is very easy to get a reputation.
Craigslist Troll: litaly@comcast.net "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
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It was bad management, and the guy pulled it off was a total sleeze. I don't know if I'd value the extra money for the bad karma. Before I witnessed it first hand it seemed like a way to stick it to the man. Once I saw what it really was, it's theft.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
That's a good point, this is probably one of those ideas that are best left on the bar room floor. Still the company's management was catastrophically negligent to let it go for 4 months!!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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Don't burn any bridges. I started showing up for 4 hour days my last week, but I was still coding my last hour of my last day (I only showed up for an hour that day). If you are going to remain living in the area, it can get worse. It's a small world and it is very easy to get a reputation.
Craigslist Troll: litaly@comcast.net "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
You're right. I'm not sure if, when asked, "Why are you leaving?", that I'll be unable to stop from responding with "You're @#($^ kidding, right?" and then go down the list of ways this transition has been a disaster. Just my nature, not something of which I'm necessarily proud. It's been such a bad experience, that there is zero chance I'll work for this organization again, or with any of the new organization's people. (In fact, I'm not even listing it on my resume. In the future, I'm thinking about just having a few-week blank period on there rather than admit that I was ever associated with them). You're right, though, you never know to whom they might talk.
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You're right. I'm not sure if, when asked, "Why are you leaving?", that I'll be unable to stop from responding with "You're @#($^ kidding, right?" and then go down the list of ways this transition has been a disaster. Just my nature, not something of which I'm necessarily proud. It's been such a bad experience, that there is zero chance I'll work for this organization again, or with any of the new organization's people. (In fact, I'm not even listing it on my resume. In the future, I'm thinking about just having a few-week blank period on there rather than admit that I was ever associated with them). You're right, though, you never know to whom they might talk.
agolddog wrote:
You're right. I'm not sure if, when asked, "Why are you leaving?", that I'll be unable to stop from responding with "You're @#($^ kidding, right?" and then go down the list of ways this transition has been a disaster.
The time for that is during the exit interview.
agolddog wrote:
It's been such a bad experience, that there is zero chance I'll work for this organization again, or with any of the new organization's people. (In fact, I'm not even listing it on my resume. In the future, I'm thinking about just having a few-week blank period on there rather than admit that I was ever associated with them).
Wait, you've only been there a few weeks? Whaaa? Are you sure they are the problem? You have a job lined up I hope.
agolddog wrote:
You're right, though, you never know to whom they might talk.
Take a peak at your boss's or some of management's linked in profiles, you'll see how far their social influence can go.
Craigslist Troll: litaly@comcast.net "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
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I replaced a guy that got so annoyed that security was so lax at the company, he overrode the IE home page of everyone on the domain to monster.com. They figured there was only one security issue. :doh:
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
Better monster.com than monsterc_ck.com. A site I have never been to, but I'm sure it exists.
Craigslist Troll: litaly@comcast.net "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
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Saw Nemanaja's thread on Resign Patterns, and thought it might be different ways to turn in one's resignation. Had an interview which went well this morning. I've got a good, but not great, feeling about it. I rather expect that I'm not going to be able to stop myself from burning bridges. Our development group got swallowed up by this company which is contracted to provide network support, and they've pretty much screwed up everything in the transition. So, what's everybody's best (whatever that means to you) resignation story?
I knew one particular presentation was going to be rough, since a manager who always razzed me was going to be there, so I put a copy of my resignation letter under my stack of vu-graphs (you know, those plastic thingies we used before Bill Gates invented Power Point?). Sure enough as my presentation went on, every few seconds he questioned me and tried to undermine the whole thing. Finally I had enough, so while there was a discussion going on, I put the resignation letter on the projector and walked out of the meeting without saying a word. I went to my office and was packing my things when the general manager came in and asked what I was doing. I told him that he could put up with the crap, but I didn't feel any real need to do that and that I understood it was the company's right to run things as they saw fit, but I felt no dire need to participate. He finally talked me out of leaving, but I put up with a lot less BS after that. And yes, I was truly serious and would have left.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Saw Nemanaja's thread on Resign Patterns, and thought it might be different ways to turn in one's resignation. Had an interview which went well this morning. I've got a good, but not great, feeling about it. I rather expect that I'm not going to be able to stop myself from burning bridges. Our development group got swallowed up by this company which is contracted to provide network support, and they've pretty much screwed up everything in the transition. So, what's everybody's best (whatever that means to you) resignation story?
The one that probably will never happen, but sometimes at least is great to immagine: Go to your boss and slap him in the face with a glove and say something like "You, sir, are a [add list of unfavorable qualities here] and a [add even longer list of unfavorable qualities here]. I shall not do your bidding any longer. And now step outside and at least defend yourself like a man." But, to be honest, my current bosses give me little reason to do anything like that.
"I just exchanged opinions with my boss. I went in with mine and came out with his." - me, 2011 ---
I am endeavoring, Madam, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins - Mr. Spock 1935 and me 2011 -
I knew one particular presentation was going to be rough, since a manager who always razzed me was going to be there, so I put a copy of my resignation letter under my stack of vu-graphs (you know, those plastic thingies we used before Bill Gates invented Power Point?). Sure enough as my presentation went on, every few seconds he questioned me and tried to undermine the whole thing. Finally I had enough, so while there was a discussion going on, I put the resignation letter on the projector and walked out of the meeting without saying a word. I went to my office and was packing my things when the general manager came in and asked what I was doing. I told him that he could put up with the crap, but I didn't feel any real need to do that and that I understood it was the company's right to run things as they saw fit, but I felt no dire need to participate. He finally talked me out of leaving, but I put up with a lot less BS after that. And yes, I was truly serious and would have left.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
You better be serious about it when you go that far. A good bluff can be really helpful at times, but that's also a card you should not play too often.
"I just exchanged opinions with my boss. I went in with mine and came out with his." - me, 2011 ---
I am endeavoring, Madam, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins - Mr. Spock 1935 and me 2011 -
At my previous company I was sent on a Management Development Program that ran once a month for a year. The culmination of this was an individual presentation to the board about why I was important to the company and that sort of thing. During the course of the year I was on the course I became increasingly disillusioned with the place, and eventually found myself a new job and the timing was such that I wrote my presentation as a resignation speech explaining exactly what I thought was wrong with the place and why I wanted to leave. It is with deep regret that I have to go on to report that due to problems with getting the board together to receive our presentations it kept getting called off and in the end I had to just scribble a note and hand it to my manager. The story does pick up a bit here, I was at that time heading up a team of two that was re-writing our entire system. The other lad had already handed in his notice by the time I got there that day. Neither of us knew the other was going to do that. The IT Director hasn't spoken a single word to me since the moment I handed my notice in, I had to serve 6 weeks notice and have been at a few functions where he has been in the nearly 4 years since I left.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
oh, how much I hate such things. I don't want to hold speeches about how great and important I am, otherwise I would have gone into politics.
"I just exchanged opinions with my boss. I went in with mine and came out with his." - me, 2011 ---
I am endeavoring, Madam, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins - Mr. Spock 1935 and me 2011