Say you’d won the £115M Euro Millions, would you go public?

UberTiger said:
Out of courtesy to your employer. Not everyone hates their job or employer and would try to be considerate and give them time to find a replacement rather than leaving them in the lurch by just upping and leaving.
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many years ago i was chatting with some work colleagues about working notice if we won big money - most were of the mind that they'd be out the door faster than the flash with 1 or 2 others not sure what they'd do. towards the end of the conversation one of the guys spotted the boss coming and started to give it the whole 'well the company has been good to me and i enjoy working here blah blah blah....i'd definitely be working my notice and even longer if they needed...blah blah blah' - anyway the boss obviously heard this and said something along the lines of 'while that's good to hear....what do you think would happen if the company were paid mega millions and told to bin you immediately (ignoring any legal ramifications)....answer, we'd bin you immediately....company loyalty is a falsehood that's encouraged to get more from you than we put in....take your winnings and run you clown'
i guess he was joking and had probably twigged this guy was 'giving it large' for his benefit but it's stayed with me since then (even having changed my employment a couple of times) so i know what i'd be doing if i won big......working my notice is not part of that plan.
 
Sure, I suppose it does very much depends on the size of the company and the people you work with. Perhaps I would bolt too if it was one of the old multi-nationals with thousands of employees that I've worked for in the past, where they really wouldn't miss me if I left.

If it was one of the other companies I've worked for where there was only 3 or 4 of us working together and we're highly dependent on each other then I wouldn't want to screw over any of those few people or the customers by leaving them high and dry, especially if I knew it would cause them a large amount of trouble, stress or lost business because I bailed on them.
 
Thekwango said:
many years ago i was chatting with some work colleagues about working notice if we won big money - most were of the mind that they'd be out the door faster than the flash with 1 or 2 others not sure what they'd do. towards the end of the conversation one of the guys spotted the boss coming and started to give it the whole 'well the company has been good to me and i enjoy working here blah blah blah....i'd definitely be working my notice and even longer if they needed...blah blah blah' - anyway the boss obviously heard this and said something along the lines of 'while that's good to hear....what do you think would happen if the company were paid mega millions and told to bin you immediately (ignoring any legal ramifications)....answer, we'd bin you immediately....company loyalty is a falsehood that's encouraged to get more from you than we put in....take your winnings and run you clown'
i guess he was joking and had probably twigged this guy was 'giving it large' for his benefit but it's stayed with me since then (even having changed my employment a couple of times) so i know what i'd be doing if i won big......working my notice is not part of that plan.
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The boss was either joking like you say, or an idiot. You can't just 'ignore legal ramifications', the company would be liable to pay notice.

If you win the lottery and don't work your notice, your company could go after you but likely wouldn't because it wouldn't be in their interest. Doesn't mean it's not a scummy thing to do. It's likely your co-workers who will feel the pains of it, not the company's bottom line.
 
dl8860 said:
The boss was either joking like you say, or an idiot. You can't just 'ignore legal ramifications', the company would be liable to pay notice.

If you win the lottery and don't work your notice, your company could go after you but likely wouldn't because it wouldn't be in their interest. Doesn't mean it's not a scummy thing to do. It's likely your co-workers who will feel the pains of it, not the company's bottom line.
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Ex Co workers, like I would be bothered :D
 
dl8860 said:
I wouldn't say I live to work, far from it, but if you can't wait a month to bin in work after you've won £100m, that definitely says something about you.
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It says life is to short to even consider thinking about working any notice, no guilt on my part :)
 
Depends on the job and position, some might be too much legal headache to quit on the spot. You might be able to pay it off but the lawsuit the follows might make the whole thing a bit sour and easier just to work the notice. Or if you are really want to quit on the spot, just sleep on the job or something and get the sack.
 
dl8860 said:
The boss was either joking like you say, or an idiot. You can't just 'ignore legal ramifications', the company would be liable to pay notice.
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i imagine he was just joking given he mentioned himself ignoring the legal ramifications and probably only said that in relation the the conversation.

dl8860 said:
I wouldn't say I live to work, far from it, but if you can't wait a month to bin in work after you've won £100m, that definitely says something about you
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what do you think it says about someone?
 
Surprised the steamy dump on the bosses desk hasn't been mentioned yet, it's no surprise people hate themselves and their work with some of the views on show here. Attitude is everything regardless of how much you're worth.

Edit: there we go ^
 
Ayahuasca said:
Surprised the steamy dump on the bosses desk hasn't been mentioned yet, it's no surprise people hate themselves and their work with some of the views on show here. Attitude is everything regardless of how much you're worth.

Edit: there we go ^
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i thoroughly enjoy my job and have a great working relationship with my boss but as someone above stated, life is too short to fanny around with notice period. that said, i'd probably offer to come in for a few hours here and there to help with my 'transition out' but i'd not be coming in for the 9-5 monday - friday for whatever number of weeks my notice period would be.
 
Thekwango said:
i thoroughly enjoy my job and have a great working relationship with my boss but as someone above stated, life is too short to fanny around with notice period. that said, i'd probably offer to come in for a few hours here and there to help with my 'transition out' but i'd not be coming in for the 9-5 monday - friday for whatever number of weeks my notice period would be.
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I know I would still be shooting the weddings that I've signed contracts for. I am not going to say "here's your money back, go find someone else." It's not about life is too short or that, this is just not being an ass.

If you are working retail or something...that would be different.
 
For me, if I suddenly just left, it would cause a LOT of pain for a bunch of people who have been really good friends for the past 5 years. I'm not a **** so I would do what I need to get my stuff handed over, and maybe book a whole bunch of cruises to get us closer to our targets and take off some of the pressure.

#niceguysfinishnice
 
Ooo have talked about this with the wife lots of times... if we ever won a prize in the crazy hundreds-of-millions range we think the best thing to do would be keep it quiet, work out all of the friends/family you want to give money to and exactly how much is required to cover it all etc. and get it all setup to transfer... invest a few million appropriately in such a way you could live very well off of returns etc. and then anonymously donate the rest to charity and trigger the transfers... Nobody needs that kind of money and as some of the posts earlier in the thread noted having millions and millions sat around can cause you all sorts of problems self inflicted or otherwise
 
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