The best way to resign.

lurkio said:
I have experience of this myself


I worked in electronics / software / IT sector and had worked for the company
for 7 years , I was on decent enough terms with my boss and an opportunity
came up for going self employed and I took it.

I handed in my resignation letter and had a chat with my boss and his manager
and told them I had always wanted to run my own business and that this
was a great opportunity for me.

I left the company and headed out on my own , after about 10 months I knew
things were no going as well as I needed it to be and I put out feelers to see
if I could get back .... they wouldn't take me even though they had
to hire 2 people to do the job I had done single handed :-(

I found out later that my immediate boss had taken it thick that I wanted
to leave and thought it made him look bad, so even though an opportunity
for my old job had come up he blocked me from getting it.

Moral , made damn sure your decision is the right one , and try to be as
diplomatic about leaving with your current employer before leaving.
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Sounds like you did everything right and your old boss was a jeb.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Funny you should mention that. I've recently moved departments and on grabbing my gear for the move, I discovered my body armour, cuffs and baton had been lifted from the locker room. Narked me a bit as you can leave a £20 note lying about and it'll be there for ever more.
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Out of interests - have any of the officers you've worked with ever arrested a colleague? Or would that be a massive taboo?
 
One was an allegation of domestic assault. The lad who got assigned the job was good mates with the lad suspected and highlighted this to his skipper and it was assigned to someone else. While he could have and indeed would have gone if he was ordered - he was concerned that as they were friends, it might come up during any proceedings that impropriety might be suggested.

As it turned out, the allegation was false.

One lad I used to crew a panda with was arrested, charged and convicted of corruption. This was dealt with by PSD though.
 
My uncle was in the police for years. He suffered from severe depression and had anger issues, made worse by his job. Eventually, he apparently assaulted someone in the street and then had to be arrested by what were probably officers junior to him. Not good!
 
MofoKilla said:
man up and do it face to face, wtf is the bs about writing a letter?

:o

got to be as bad as dumping someone by txt message lol.
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It's the way it is done - which ever way round you do it you have to follow it up by something in writing. Especially in bigger corporations.
 
oldbag said:
People don't leave companies - they leave the ******* they work with/for.
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It was the opposite with me - my immediate manager and his manager were ace and the team I worked with and my subordinates were all excellent too.

However the company as a whole (Hewlett Packard) I found to be direction less and morally bankrupt so I decided to part ways with them after 15 years service - with a big fat voluntary redundancy package!

My asking for VR was also effectively a resignation letter - I simply asked my manager if he could spare 5 mins for a chat and proceeded to tell him I'd had enough working for a large multinational and it was best if we both parted company - he accepted my reasoning and proceeded to put the request in, which was approved (as it should have been as there were CR's ongoing at the time) and I was out within three weeks.

Best decision I've ever made - enjoying the life of a house husband tremendously :-)
 
Just thought I'd add closure to this thread.

Got accepted for the new job today, needed to hand my notice in today in order to start new role march 3rd. As I'm on holiday and I only see my manager once a month, I called her up and told her. I followed this up with an email with letter attached. We will meet up Monday morning to chat.
 
Congratz bro. Maybe your current place will counter will a truly spectacular deal if they feel you're worth holding on to. :)
 
Freefaller said:
It's the way it is done - which ever way round you do it you have to follow it up by something in writing. Especially in bigger corporations.
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Aye my verbal resignation from my last job wasn't worth anything per se. It was only once a formal letter was handed in that my notice officially started.
 
Exactly. The whole point of doing a letter is so you can formally serve notice and lay out your expectations around leaving date and any other factors (payment for accrued holiday etc). Was a few years ago now I last handed in my notice, but nowadays I'd probably email a copy of my latter as well so that there is an electronic record of it too.

I'd still speak to my line manager first (assuming available in person or over the phone) to declare my intent however.
 
I agreed to an interesting "lottery leaving" game at work. If you win the lottery, you aren't allowed to resign - you have to be fired. To be fired, you are only allowed to tell the truth, no swearing and no violence!

Could be quite interesting :)
 
That's an easy game to win though, just stop showing up for work. No swearing involved, and if you don't get fired then you get paid still.
 
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