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How do you quit a job?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by KJIM, Jul 31, 2007.

  1. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    Naked.
     
  2. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Word of caution.

    Where I work, if you're at a certain level on the food chain and announce you're leaving (and going to a competitor), you're escorted out of the building pretty much on the spot. They give you five or ten minutes to clear out your desk but that's about it--and you do it under their supervision.

    They still have to pay you for the two weeks.

    If you refuse to say where you're going, they escort you out anyway.

    Do a thorough house-cleaning before you tell them-you know, the condoms in your top drawer and the pair of panties you picked up at the stag. :)
     
  3. STLIrish

    STLIrish Active Member

    If you have people you consider good friends there, especially if they had some sort of mentoring role, tell them quietly before you tell the boss. Because what JR says could happen. Or they could just immediately send an everyone e-mail. Either way, friends probably want to hear it from you.
    Depending on the relationship, you may want to tell your direct supervisor in advance, too (unless that's the person you formally resign to). He/she is going to be the one most directly impacted by your absence.
    Good luck.
     
  4. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    Here's the problem, STL. At my first gig out of college, I told a couple other guys I had an offer and was taking 24 hours to mull it over. When I came back to work that night to get some stuff done for the next day (we were a PM) I noticed my job listed in the next day's classifieds. Apparently the ME/publisher (tiny paper, for sure) got wind of it and was none too pleased she found out from someone other than me.

    Far as I'm concerned, everyone should find out at the same time.
     
  5. pressmurphy

    pressmurphy Member

    Don't tell anything to anyone until you meet with your supervisor. The last thing you want to happen is for that meeting to get postponed due to some sort of mini-crisis and then your boss ends up hearing about your plans from a subordinate. That makes him/her look bad.
     
  6. Clever username

    Clever username Active Member

    That's how I did it. I still have that file saved on my computer. That was a good day.
     
  7. No reason to be an ass, just give two weeks and be done with it.
     
  8. Breakyoself

    Breakyoself Member

    i was at ends with a new editor and began loooking for a new job shortly after he arrived. told him i was making some visits to other papers for interviews. night before i left, i got pissed at him for leaving early (for no reason) and leaving two inexperienced guys on desk so I had to hurry even more on deadline with an extra-inning game and then get out five pages in 20 minutes.

    I wrote him an email saying we needed to talk about how the department was being run and that there were issues. Next day, while on interview, he called and bitched at me, saying never tell him how to do his job. (if he knew how to do it, i wouldn;'t have had to correct him so much)

    The next day I came back with two job offers, saw him at the college spring game. he asked how the interview went and I said "Great, I'll be gone in two weeks." During the next two weeks he laced into another reporter for dumb things (and that he could have helped avoid but didn't) and called me out twice.

    Looking back, I kind of wish I handled it differently, but not really.
     
  9. Eagleboy

    Eagleboy Guest

    Last time I quit a job was at a restaurant, where I worked the summer. Just popped in the office and was like "Yeah, I've got some other stuff going on in about two weeks, so I'm out of here." The schedule was posted the next day for Week 1, and I wasn't on it. I came back to check on Week 2, but I wasn't on that one, either. Kind of got my wish really quickly.

    Probably doesn't help a whole lot, but I was incredibly informal about it and they didn't care much. They just said "OK" and moved on. Didn't help that they didn't really like my work ethic, as I was really dogging it at the end, but it was miserable.
     
  10. Matt Foley

    Matt Foley Member

    Take a dump right in the middle of the hallway.
     
  11. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Pack up your stuff, wave and say 'See ya, losers!' on your way out.
    If you're passing close by somebody's desk, give him a wet willy as you exit.
     
  12. Rusty Shackleford

    Rusty Shackleford Active Member

    What's that from? A movie or TV show or something?
     
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