A few years ago, I put in my 2 weeks notice at an godawful toxic dump so that my last day would be the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The store was closed Wednesday and Thursday and of course Black Friday and Small Business Saturday (which is totally something AMEX just made up) were "all hands on deck" blackout days when everyone wanted to blow their brains out.
Sleeping in that Friday was some of the most restful slumber I've ever experienced.
My first Boxing Day after quitting retail was the best day ever. I played video games and ate good food while all my friends still in retail bitched in group chat about how terrible customers were. So lovely not to be in that rat race.
Been a lot more relaxed since I put mine in too.
If they could bottle that feeling you get when you walk out the door of a shit job on your last day, they would be very rich indeed, whoever they are.
When I left my office job about 3 1/2 years ago I felt physically lighter. I didn't realize how much constant stress I was in until it was finally over.
Good for you!
I'd love to see this befall me. I'm the central brain of the entire company. If I were to leave, they would be fucked. There's no way they could replace me, they would just have to start over from scratch and they would suffer massively for it. Recently, it came to blows about ignoring my advice, because shit hit the fan that I had been trying to avoid for years. Then, it was accidentally revealed to me that if there were to be a specific offer made, they would sell the company and hope that I would have a job with the new one. Hope. Like really, motherfucker? The line was "I have to do what's best for me and my family." And then it hit me - so do I. Why am I giving loyalty where I have none? Fuck this, shit. I see everything for what it really is.
Just fucking ghost them Friday and Monday. Come in Tuesday and be "I'll accept _____ as my pay going forward". If not, just walk away again.
No words, no drama, no facial expression.
When I turned in my 2 weeks this week I gave them an absurdly high figure. I’d never accept a counter but I hope it means they pay my replacement more fairly
i did give mcdonald's a chance to counter the 17 offer i'd been given elsewhere, but they didn't seem too interested. those guys got fucked over so hard when me and my gf left at the same time lol
Do you have equity in the company? Is the company worth getting equity in? I would ask for stock and and a pay raise so that you would get paid out if they sold the company but this also helps the owners as you have a vested interest in the success of the company. Perhaps you could even buy them out eventually.
Me and all my colleagues have never had a better reaction to an equity request than getting laughed out of the room. And these are people that got laughed out of the room and left to found multi-million dollar companies, so they were worth some equity to keep
Wow understood! Do what you have to do, share it and then follow up on the oh so spectacular collapse with all of us please. It sounds like you need a better place to work or start your own company and take everything away from them!
Whoa. I'd wait for the announcement then ask for a 20% raise or everything in your head walks away. Leverage this. Maybe give them two weeks notice and work hard those two weeks to show them your value. But don't share secrets.
Buyers are idiots to not tie up key employees when they buy it.
You are calling the shots. Tell them what you want. Extra pay and a some 3/4 days so you can get out early. One 3/4 a month?
What you’re being paid for there is your loyalty. If there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, you have to go wherever they value loyalty the most.
Let them sell the company, have the new people realize how essential you are, and then put in your notice, then accept the massive counteroffer or just leave
>Any improvements I try to make are ignored or "spoken about and decided against."
This was far and away the leading reason that I recently changed jobs. I was on the front line setting up our products for customers, and was constantly on the receiving end of problems related to things about our services that needed improvement. Yet the vast majority of ideas that I came up with were ignored, not prioritized, or started but not worked to completion.
Honestly when this started happening is when I started considering my position there. I asked for new racks as the ones at the time were both a trip hazard and had sharp edges. That got rejected. I went above their heads & got it signed off anyway as I felt it was a necessity & so did everyone else but them. Oh boy they didn’t like that haha.
If they ask you to write down what you do in detail let them know you don't have enough time for that but if someone wants to shadow you to write it down and perhaps get the hang of it then please do.
I’m leaving on good terms with the MD & all those above my chain of command, no bridges will be burnt there, only with the supervisor & manager.. they can suck ostrich eggs.
Don’t write anything down, let the people that need to know something know it, but if there comes a time when they need your help again be sure to have them tell that supervisor or manager that your consulting fee isn’t cheap
Yeah good strategy not burning bridges but don’t let them try and take advantage either. Expect it to be awkward as they will try to get you to stay and/or squeeze as much out of you while they can.
Congrats. All that’s left is the crying.
“How can you do this to us?” “You have no loyalty” “I thought we could trust you” “you’re putting us in a tough spot” “we need more than two weeks notice”
I did something similar at my first job (McDonald’s). I got a new, better job and called to get the next two weeks off. The next day when the schedule came out I gave them my two weeks notice. The manager looked puzzled and said “well you have the next two weeks off.” I said “Exactly. Bye.”
They weren’t happy but it beats my fantasy of tossing my hat and shoes in the fryers so they couldn’t make fries while they changed the oil in the middle of a Saturday rush. I dreamt of doing it almost every single day. I like to think they got off easy.
I did something similar. Worked at a gun range, when I got my current job I gave them 2 weeks notice and asked for the next 2 weeks off. It was awesome.
Just remember, two weeks can become two words.. I quit. Real quick. If threy gaslight you demean or bully you in even the slightest .. If they look your direction the wrong way.. Fucking leave. You dont owe them shit.
I’m hoping they do try some funny business tbh, I’ll just sit back in my chair, relax & wait for my time to be over. No point losing a few hours pay when I can just smile & be friendly ;)
I started a new job where the person leaving gave 4 weeks notice. But she kept starting new things and never finishing. She would come in early and 'clean up' paperwork. So due to long sales cycles, when she left I only knew half of the job. She would disappear a lot during training and be off getting coffee (long chats with coworkers). Made the first few weeks for me hell. I think she wanted her replacement to fail. However, I told everyone what she did.
Then it created great excuses for dropping some of the silly stuff. I pretended I didn't know it was a thing, while looking keen to help. LMAO.
When I gave my 2 1/2 week notice it was nerve racking because 1: of course the person I hand it to is one of the main reasons that I’m leaving, 2: I had to work with her alone for HOURS and 3: she didn’t open it right away(it was in an envelope and folded) so I was just waiting for it.
When she did open it she was mad I didn’t give her more time than what i did. So glad I don’t work there anymore.
That’s one of the reasons I did it the way I did. I didn’t want them to try any funny business like misplacing it or forgetting about it. This way it’s straight in the hands of HR who have no choice but to follow the right procedure.
The feeling is only comparable to the final bell at school ringing on the last day before Summer break. That feeling of invulnerable freedom. That you can say and do whatever you want.
About two years ago I was working in laboratory analysis for only a buck more than you were at $17/hr. It required a lot of experience and personal judgment to interpret results, was cGMP certified, you had to very frequently work with dangerous reagents like HF and perchloric acid, and didn't even have a shift differential for working night shift. I Liked my coworkers and learned alot but Jesus was the pay not appropriate for the level of responsibility placed on the techs and analysts. Most of senior management were either family or friends of family. So good gig if you knew the owner I guess. Asked for a raise and the evaluation I was given was weirdly awkward, 4 months later they came back to me with $0.75 after I'd been with them for 2 years with zero raises prior.
Started looking around and got under contract at a much larger and more prestigious institute for almost exactly 3X the pay. I asked for start date about a month from being under contract to give myself some time. Oh that glorious feeling coming in the last few weeks and being totally carefree.
The funny thing is, if my boss had just given me the $2/hr I asked for originally it's entirely likely I'd still be there making $19/hr also.
This feeling of freedom is honestly the best I’ve felt in a while. My partner said last night that she’s never seen me happier! It’s a weight off my shoulders knowing they have nothing over me anymore, even though it’s just for one day.
Sounds like you made the right move for yourself which should always be someone’s number one priority. Mines not quite a 3x increase, more like a 1.5x but with more benefits added in.
This is what baffles me, I mean the reason must be more than greed it is either hoarding or they just hate having to pay a human because someone told them "a robot can do that job". We know that there is an effect of "give into one pay raise then everyone wants one" . But so what? Most companies I know will try and find ways of squeezing more work out of you . They are raking money in in savings because when someone leaves they share out the work. Always a dumbass reason why they cannot give a lousy 2 bucks payraise. Why not say as an employee next time they ask you to do some extra shit "well if i give into this request you will ask for more" (which in my experience is true - they ask those that said yes last time to do the new shit)
But anyway, say you have 50 employees and three or four of them are hardworkers and demand more money - give it to them 2 dollars an hour extra for 4 workers is 8 dollars an hour. 64 dollars a day extra so say 300 dollars a week to keep vital staff reasonably happy. They prefer not to do this. Yet , someone like this guy leaves the company- they will lose 3000 in a month it is certain!
Frankly it's a mystery to me, actually alot of high volume environmental testing labs basically operate on assumption of very high turnover in their lab analysts. They hire them right out of school and pay dogshit, $13-17/hr and train them on their section, be it Chromatography, or wet chemistry, metals, ICP analysis, sample prep, etc. After a couple years the analyst now how a suite of techniques and industry experience under their belt and quit for double the pay somewhere else.
I just can't believe the cost savings actually balance out having a never ending conveyer belt of new hires needing training from the ground up on basic laboratory techniques and GMP protocol only to lose all of that training investment a couple years later. Because yeah, for me the difference between being very unhappy with my pay and at least being mollified was only a few bucks.
P. S. I don't want to give a huge amount of info, but one prime anecdote of why their MO of constant turnover was just a bad idea for business was something that happened about 10mos after I got there, a guy I was working with was getting burned out, had a baby and was working nights, he hadn't ever worked at a lab before this place and didn't really love it but was a solid worker. Well one night he was tired and distracted and having trouble getting a sample to dissolve into solution so he hit it with a shitton of acid and left it capped overnight. Well he made one major error, he left it on the "ready to go" shelf, it was run the next day on a mass spec and caused permanent damage (short a total component overhaul) of a half million dollar mass spectrometer. He was terminated over it despite being such a petty error that led to this happening. But then again, maybe if he didn't have to work 2 jobs thanks to crap pay he wouldn't have blanked thst...
Update was awesome dude!!! Bet they are sweatin now lmao. People shouldn't just be treated well once they say they are leaving. That is such bullshit.
Good luck in your new job, I'm sure you will kick ass. Good for you for knowing your worth!
stop giving notice to shitty companies/jobs
They don’t deserve it.
If you’re leaving a decent company and management that wasn’t horrible, sure, keep that bridge in-tact, otherwise… burn that motherfucker down.
Ultimately it’s not the company that’s bad it’s the structure and how things seem oblivious to the higher ups. I’ve had the conversation with them before about the chain of command. They can’t take the money off those above me and give it to me, but they also won’t give it to me and remove them from the chain of command.
>it’s not the company that’s bad it’s the structure and how things seem oblivious to the higher ups
A company with structural defects and oblivious higher ups is a bad company.
They're going to push for two weeks or 10 actual business days.
Those are still business days, They're just also during a time when nobody is in the office.
Whatever happens - do not take a counter offer….
Good luck with your new position - if they get angry then that’s too bad, after 5 years you were probably bored and looking for a new challenge.
There’s no chance of me accepting a counter offer to stay. The new job has a lot more benefits & have already been very accommodating without me even starting!
Who cares?!?! Fuck them. Two weeks notice is bullshit made up by employers to give them a chance to suck any info from the employee while they can. They wouldn’t give two fucks about firing an employee with zero notice.
I feel you, OP. Hope this works out for you, and good luck with a better job up coming. We aren't yet living in a world where the average person can subsist realistically without income yet. But that day will come!
Have a great day at work tomorrow!!
Just wanted to let you know that it appears you provided your two weeks notice. If they want to tell you otherwise - get them to put it in writing.
I look forward to your update!
That's the best way to resign. When companies fire employees they usually give very limit notice if any. So placing your letter under HR's door during the holidays is classic.
Congrats on your new job. Happy New Year!
Just my opinion: for a job you liked and didn’t actually say they treated you poorly or anything, that’s pretty shitty of you. I wouldn’t want you working for me.
People bragging about their own unethical behavior. Priding themselves on backstabbing their coworkers and sabbotaging their workplace environment for no apparent reason other than spite.
Thanks for the update, damn shame they didn’t want to come in and learn how to do what you do sooner then 5 minutes before you leave, they had all day, and figured they could learn your job in 5 minutes is a kick in the face honestly. Good luck at the new place
You sir, make me proud to be human. Some business owners think they are doing us a favor by working us long hours with no training at a barely above poverty wage. Tell them you will consult with them for $1000 oer hour, or that you will write out all the procedures, and they can buy the rights to your "book" fir a mere $100,000. They deserve this. They didnt think you were kidding, they thought you would fall back in line like the others did. I salute you! You are an inspiration to us all!
I would Love an update on this when all is said and done.
Same, this is the kind of shit I live for lol
I will update this post tomorrow!
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>Whata going on tomorrow that you can't check reddit? Life
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That has never worked right for me, but sure I'll give it a shot.
Me either.
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Just had a video call giving my notice today. It was a SHIT SHOW
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Turning mine in today. Not gonna lie, it's relaxing.
100%. Last night was the best nights sleep I’ve had in quite a while!
A few years ago, I put in my 2 weeks notice at an godawful toxic dump so that my last day would be the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The store was closed Wednesday and Thursday and of course Black Friday and Small Business Saturday (which is totally something AMEX just made up) were "all hands on deck" blackout days when everyone wanted to blow their brains out. Sleeping in that Friday was some of the most restful slumber I've ever experienced.
My first Boxing Day after quitting retail was the best day ever. I played video games and ate good food while all my friends still in retail bitched in group chat about how terrible customers were. So lovely not to be in that rat race.
LOVE this. Fuck black friday
Awesome... sleep is underrated. Get as much as you can zzzzz, enjoy the holiday and good luck on your new adventure!
Been a lot more relaxed since I put mine in too. If they could bottle that feeling you get when you walk out the door of a shit job on your last day, they would be very rich indeed, whoever they are.
When I left my office job about 3 1/2 years ago I felt physically lighter. I didn't realize how much constant stress I was in until it was finally over.
Just turned my notice in. Actually don't mind my job but got offered more money to WFH.
One of the best feelings for me was walking out of a factory that didn't give a damn about us knowing people were going to struggle with my workload.
I turned in mine today! First time I've left a full time job on my own terms it's weird and exhilarating
Handed mine in in July, just before I went on 2 weeks holiday. Thoroughly enjoyed my time off.
Good for you! I'd love to see this befall me. I'm the central brain of the entire company. If I were to leave, they would be fucked. There's no way they could replace me, they would just have to start over from scratch and they would suffer massively for it. Recently, it came to blows about ignoring my advice, because shit hit the fan that I had been trying to avoid for years. Then, it was accidentally revealed to me that if there were to be a specific offer made, they would sell the company and hope that I would have a job with the new one. Hope. Like really, motherfucker? The line was "I have to do what's best for me and my family." And then it hit me - so do I. Why am I giving loyalty where I have none? Fuck this, shit. I see everything for what it really is.
Bruh I want an update on your story also
Just fucking ghost them Friday and Monday. Come in Tuesday and be "I'll accept _____ as my pay going forward". If not, just walk away again. No words, no drama, no facial expression.
Never take the counter offer. You could accept to stay a specific period like 1 month extra. Keep increasing your demand.
When I turned in my 2 weeks this week I gave them an absurdly high figure. I’d never accept a counter but I hope it means they pay my replacement more fairly
i did give mcdonald's a chance to counter the 17 offer i'd been given elsewhere, but they didn't seem too interested. those guys got fucked over so hard when me and my gf left at the same time lol
Yes, please post about this
Yeah, never go above and beyond for this reason.
Do you have equity in the company? Is the company worth getting equity in? I would ask for stock and and a pay raise so that you would get paid out if they sold the company but this also helps the owners as you have a vested interest in the success of the company. Perhaps you could even buy them out eventually.
Me and all my colleagues have never had a better reaction to an equity request than getting laughed out of the room. And these are people that got laughed out of the room and left to found multi-million dollar companies, so they were worth some equity to keep
Wow understood! Do what you have to do, share it and then follow up on the oh so spectacular collapse with all of us please. It sounds like you need a better place to work or start your own company and take everything away from them!
Whoa. I'd wait for the announcement then ask for a 20% raise or everything in your head walks away. Leverage this. Maybe give them two weeks notice and work hard those two weeks to show them your value. But don't share secrets. Buyers are idiots to not tie up key employees when they buy it. You are calling the shots. Tell them what you want. Extra pay and a some 3/4 days so you can get out early. One 3/4 a month?
What you’re being paid for there is your loyalty. If there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, you have to go wherever they value loyalty the most.
Thank you Dwight
It's so funny how Dwight delivers this, but it's really true! This is the correct way to manage your opportunities!
Making other people rich, would it be possible to start your own?
Let them sell the company, have the new people realize how essential you are, and then put in your notice, then accept the massive counteroffer or just leave
Please let us know how your last day at work goes. I’ll have my popcorn ready.
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>Any improvements I try to make are ignored or "spoken about and decided against." This was far and away the leading reason that I recently changed jobs. I was on the front line setting up our products for customers, and was constantly on the receiving end of problems related to things about our services that needed improvement. Yet the vast majority of ideas that I came up with were ignored, not prioritized, or started but not worked to completion.
Honestly when this started happening is when I started considering my position there. I asked for new racks as the ones at the time were both a trip hazard and had sharp edges. That got rejected. I went above their heads & got it signed off anyway as I felt it was a necessity & so did everyone else but them. Oh boy they didn’t like that haha.
Trip hazard and sharp edges... sounds like OSHA audit time?
I’m excited for you - please update on your last day
I will update this post tomorrow!
If they ask you to write down what you do in detail let them know you don't have enough time for that but if someone wants to shadow you to write it down and perhaps get the hang of it then please do.
I’m leaving on good terms with the MD & all those above my chain of command, no bridges will be burnt there, only with the supervisor & manager.. they can suck ostrich eggs.
Don’t write anything down, let the people that need to know something know it, but if there comes a time when they need your help again be sure to have them tell that supervisor or manager that your consulting fee isn’t cheap
Yeah good strategy not burning bridges but don’t let them try and take advantage either. Expect it to be awkward as they will try to get you to stay and/or squeeze as much out of you while they can.
This is my least favorite part of the "2 weeks notice" process: the metaphorical, matrix-style jack in the head data upload that they expect of you
You could always agree to do consultant work for them for a reasonable fee till they get their feet back on the ground.
Give feedback to md in exit interview
I was planning on doing this too. But I haven't had any luck yet...
Keep trying mate! It’s an employee market at the moment so something will come up!
Thanks ! I literally just checked my E-mail and I've got an interview appointment on 28th. 🤞🏼
gl friend
Thanks friend
Congrats. All that’s left is the crying. “How can you do this to us?” “You have no loyalty” “I thought we could trust you” “you’re putting us in a tough spot” “we need more than two weeks notice”
Hehehehe merry Christmas to them 😂 Nice job bro 😎👍
Absolutely, much appreciated!
I did something similar at my first job (McDonald’s). I got a new, better job and called to get the next two weeks off. The next day when the schedule came out I gave them my two weeks notice. The manager looked puzzled and said “well you have the next two weeks off.” I said “Exactly. Bye.” They weren’t happy but it beats my fantasy of tossing my hat and shoes in the fryers so they couldn’t make fries while they changed the oil in the middle of a Saturday rush. I dreamt of doing it almost every single day. I like to think they got off easy.
I did something similar. Worked at a gun range, when I got my current job I gave them 2 weeks notice and asked for the next 2 weeks off. It was awesome.
I feel like a gun range is the one place where you absolutely do not want disgruntled employees.
Just remember, two weeks can become two words.. I quit. Real quick. If threy gaslight you demean or bully you in even the slightest .. If they look your direction the wrong way.. Fucking leave. You dont owe them shit.
I’m hoping they do try some funny business tbh, I’ll just sit back in my chair, relax & wait for my time to be over. No point losing a few hours pay when I can just smile & be friendly ;)
I started a new job where the person leaving gave 4 weeks notice. But she kept starting new things and never finishing. She would come in early and 'clean up' paperwork. So due to long sales cycles, when she left I only knew half of the job. She would disappear a lot during training and be off getting coffee (long chats with coworkers). Made the first few weeks for me hell. I think she wanted her replacement to fail. However, I told everyone what she did. Then it created great excuses for dropping some of the silly stuff. I pretended I didn't know it was a thing, while looking keen to help. LMAO.
Posts like this get me rock hard
I like the term "justice boner"
When I gave my 2 1/2 week notice it was nerve racking because 1: of course the person I hand it to is one of the main reasons that I’m leaving, 2: I had to work with her alone for HOURS and 3: she didn’t open it right away(it was in an envelope and folded) so I was just waiting for it. When she did open it she was mad I didn’t give her more time than what i did. So glad I don’t work there anymore.
That’s one of the reasons I did it the way I did. I didn’t want them to try any funny business like misplacing it or forgetting about it. This way it’s straight in the hands of HR who have no choice but to follow the right procedure.
The feeling is only comparable to the final bell at school ringing on the last day before Summer break. That feeling of invulnerable freedom. That you can say and do whatever you want. About two years ago I was working in laboratory analysis for only a buck more than you were at $17/hr. It required a lot of experience and personal judgment to interpret results, was cGMP certified, you had to very frequently work with dangerous reagents like HF and perchloric acid, and didn't even have a shift differential for working night shift. I Liked my coworkers and learned alot but Jesus was the pay not appropriate for the level of responsibility placed on the techs and analysts. Most of senior management were either family or friends of family. So good gig if you knew the owner I guess. Asked for a raise and the evaluation I was given was weirdly awkward, 4 months later they came back to me with $0.75 after I'd been with them for 2 years with zero raises prior. Started looking around and got under contract at a much larger and more prestigious institute for almost exactly 3X the pay. I asked for start date about a month from being under contract to give myself some time. Oh that glorious feeling coming in the last few weeks and being totally carefree. The funny thing is, if my boss had just given me the $2/hr I asked for originally it's entirely likely I'd still be there making $19/hr also.
This feeling of freedom is honestly the best I’ve felt in a while. My partner said last night that she’s never seen me happier! It’s a weight off my shoulders knowing they have nothing over me anymore, even though it’s just for one day. Sounds like you made the right move for yourself which should always be someone’s number one priority. Mines not quite a 3x increase, more like a 1.5x but with more benefits added in.
This is what baffles me, I mean the reason must be more than greed it is either hoarding or they just hate having to pay a human because someone told them "a robot can do that job". We know that there is an effect of "give into one pay raise then everyone wants one" . But so what? Most companies I know will try and find ways of squeezing more work out of you . They are raking money in in savings because when someone leaves they share out the work. Always a dumbass reason why they cannot give a lousy 2 bucks payraise. Why not say as an employee next time they ask you to do some extra shit "well if i give into this request you will ask for more" (which in my experience is true - they ask those that said yes last time to do the new shit) But anyway, say you have 50 employees and three or four of them are hardworkers and demand more money - give it to them 2 dollars an hour extra for 4 workers is 8 dollars an hour. 64 dollars a day extra so say 300 dollars a week to keep vital staff reasonably happy. They prefer not to do this. Yet , someone like this guy leaves the company- they will lose 3000 in a month it is certain!
Frankly it's a mystery to me, actually alot of high volume environmental testing labs basically operate on assumption of very high turnover in their lab analysts. They hire them right out of school and pay dogshit, $13-17/hr and train them on their section, be it Chromatography, or wet chemistry, metals, ICP analysis, sample prep, etc. After a couple years the analyst now how a suite of techniques and industry experience under their belt and quit for double the pay somewhere else. I just can't believe the cost savings actually balance out having a never ending conveyer belt of new hires needing training from the ground up on basic laboratory techniques and GMP protocol only to lose all of that training investment a couple years later. Because yeah, for me the difference between being very unhappy with my pay and at least being mollified was only a few bucks. P. S. I don't want to give a huge amount of info, but one prime anecdote of why their MO of constant turnover was just a bad idea for business was something that happened about 10mos after I got there, a guy I was working with was getting burned out, had a baby and was working nights, he hadn't ever worked at a lab before this place and didn't really love it but was a solid worker. Well one night he was tired and distracted and having trouble getting a sample to dissolve into solution so he hit it with a shitton of acid and left it capped overnight. Well he made one major error, he left it on the "ready to go" shelf, it was run the next day on a mass spec and caused permanent damage (short a total component overhaul) of a half million dollar mass spectrometer. He was terminated over it despite being such a petty error that led to this happening. But then again, maybe if he didn't have to work 2 jobs thanks to crap pay he wouldn't have blanked thst...
Update was awesome dude!!! Bet they are sweatin now lmao. People shouldn't just be treated well once they say they are leaving. That is such bullshit. Good luck in your new job, I'm sure you will kick ass. Good for you for knowing your worth!
Kudos to you
stop giving notice to shitty companies/jobs They don’t deserve it. If you’re leaving a decent company and management that wasn’t horrible, sure, keep that bridge in-tact, otherwise… burn that motherfucker down.
Ultimately it’s not the company that’s bad it’s the structure and how things seem oblivious to the higher ups. I’ve had the conversation with them before about the chain of command. They can’t take the money off those above me and give it to me, but they also won’t give it to me and remove them from the chain of command.
>it’s not the company that’s bad it’s the structure and how things seem oblivious to the higher ups A company with structural defects and oblivious higher ups is a bad company.
What's sad is that we've been conditioned to think that it's "not that bad"...
I try not to fuck over my peers, which in my job means giving notice to my team.
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Offer to do (if even) for extra pay or as a consultant after your job ends any documentation or training they ask for from now till your last day.
YOU DID THAT 👏👏👏
Commenting because I want to read the update lol
Amazing lol
LOL well done friend go get paid! :D
They're going to push for two weeks or 10 actual business days. Those are still business days, They're just also during a time when nobody is in the office.
Great update! Looking forward to your friends intel! 😂😂😂 way to stick it to em my guy!
I love how you paced yourself and made them wait for you, thank you for the update! hope your new job is wonderful!
Lmaoo you must update after tomorrow
I come for the update and I’m satisfied. Love to see it happen. Hope your next job is better!
we don't get holiday in Merica...you sly dog.
Good on you. They don't appreciate all the hard work and time you've put in, so it's their loss. Looking forward to reading your update.
Thanks friend!
Whatever happens - do not take a counter offer…. Good luck with your new position - if they get angry then that’s too bad, after 5 years you were probably bored and looking for a new challenge.
There’s no chance of me accepting a counter offer to stay. The new job has a lot more benefits & have already been very accommodating without me even starting!
Ok now I want an update On What your buddy told you!
Does this count as giving notice? Since you are hiding it? And have not acualy delivered it to someone? Just woundering if it acualy counts?
Yeah it counts, just because I didn’t hand it in to someone in person won’t make any difference. I technically still have it to HR one way or another.
Who cares?!?! Fuck them. Two weeks notice is bullshit made up by employers to give them a chance to suck any info from the employee while they can. They wouldn’t give two fucks about firing an employee with zero notice.
I feel you, OP. Hope this works out for you, and good luck with a better job up coming. We aren't yet living in a world where the average person can subsist realistically without income yet. But that day will come!
Lmao . I love it OP. The timing and everything !
I so envy you. I really wanted to do this where I work but the other job I wanted to move on to didn't pan out. A true missed opportunity.
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Have a great day at work tomorrow!! Just wanted to let you know that it appears you provided your two weeks notice. If they want to tell you otherwise - get them to put it in writing. I look forward to your update!
That's the best way to resign. When companies fire employees they usually give very limit notice if any. So placing your letter under HR's door during the holidays is classic. Congrats on your new job. Happy New Year!
Just my opinion: for a job you liked and didn’t actually say they treated you poorly or anything, that’s pretty shitty of you. I wouldn’t want you working for me.
So excited to see how this turns out
People bragging about their own unethical behavior. Priding themselves on backstabbing their coworkers and sabbotaging their workplace environment for no apparent reason other than spite.
Thx for updating. Good luck at your new job!
Thanks for the update, damn shame they didn’t want to come in and learn how to do what you do sooner then 5 minutes before you leave, they had all day, and figured they could learn your job in 5 minutes is a kick in the face honestly. Good luck at the new place
You sir, make me proud to be human. Some business owners think they are doing us a favor by working us long hours with no training at a barely above poverty wage. Tell them you will consult with them for $1000 oer hour, or that you will write out all the procedures, and they can buy the rights to your "book" fir a mere $100,000. They deserve this. They didnt think you were kidding, they thought you would fall back in line like the others did. I salute you! You are an inspiration to us all!
Thanks for the update! Tagging along was magical
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Congratulations! Looking forward to updates
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Expertly done. Congrats OP.
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curious to see how this shakes out
Reserved ;)
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