Writing a letter of resignation

DAVEM said:
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And IMO for a "complaint" I'd write:

"Whilst generally this has been a forward looking organisation to work for, on occasion my performance has been affected by my ability to access OcUK" :p

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Davem
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Surely that should be:

"Whilst generally this has been a forward looking organisation to work for, on occasion my ability to access OcUK has been affected by work getting in the way" :D

Seriously though, keep things short and to the point. Resist the urge to write a list of issues it'll just make you look bad and not affect anything.

I would not mention leaving dates or notice periods. If you put them then your boss is liable to want you to follow them. If you don't put them then you may well be able to get an earlier exit, (at our place the contracted notice period is 12 weeks; two people who I know are leaving at the moment and each of them are only serving 3-4 weeks ... the shortest one I know was 1.5 weeks). I would not expect to serve more than one pay period as a notice period, (there's probably an european employment law on it).
 
12 weeks! Our place usually lets them go at the end of the week. One place i wa at was just, "ok then, get your stuff and get out". Needless to say that place was a pile of steaming poo and i left because it was.
 
PhillyDee said:
12 weeks! Our place usually lets them go at the end of the week. One place i wa at was just, "ok then, get your stuff and get out". Needless to say that place was a pile of steaming poo and i left because it was.
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Most decent companies / organisations will want you to serve at least a month, mainly for you to instruct the person who will fill your role on details of the job. It can be different, obviously, depending on the nature of your role.

For example if you make burgers in fast food joint your hardly likely to need 3 months to train the person following you. But if you're developing methods for detecting faults with nuclear reactors you might need a good period to train the new guy!
 
alexthecheese said:
Oh yes. Bring it on. I've been offered a job today, and when the written letter of offer comes through the post I will be crafting a lovely resignation letter fit for an oil tycoon.

So where do I start? In a serious way I don't really know, and though I could look it up, I'd prefer to let you guys have a jab at writing one for me, or at least helping. :cool:
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I handed my notice in yesterday, after 17 years and 2 months it felt ******* brilliant.

I just googled resignation letter, cut and paste and edited my name and the company name.
 
alexthecheese said:
Oh yes. Bring it on. I've been offered a job today, and when the written letter of offer comes through the post I will be crafting a lovely resignation letter fit for an oil tycoon.

So where do I start? In a serious way I don't really know, and though I could look it up, I'd prefer to let you guys have a jab at writing one for me, or at least helping. :cool:
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i'd start by saying "hello", continue with "i'm off" followed by "**** you guys"
 
DAVEM said:
Most decent companies / organisations will want you to serve at least a month, mainly for you to instruct the person who will fill your role on details of the job. It can be different, obviously, depending on the nature of your role.

For example if you make burgers in fast food joint your hardly likely to need 3 months to train the person following you. But if you're developing methods for detecting faults with nuclear reactors you might need a good period to train the new guy!
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Again, heavily dependant on the role and company, but lots will put you on gardening leave for your notice period so you can't steal company secrets, or even worse client databases. :)
 
Oh yeah, if I was to quit at the moment, (very strong possibility :rolleyes:), then for security reasons I would have to stop ~90% of my work immediately and I'd only have supervised access to several system, (which currently i have authority over), in order to hand information over.

Most of my notice period would be spent writing documentation ... although at least I would not be oncall all the time which would be an improvement :(

My Dad used to work for a major international IT company and when he left the normal procedure was Gardening Leave. You basically only came back onsite for your final HR meeting
 
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