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I learned a long time ago to not burn bridges............you never know when you might need them some day. I am back working for an employer I left 15 years ago, and they took me back because I left on good terms.
Simply be professional and mature. Say you have found a position you want to pursue and leave it at that. Ask yourself, what would you gain by going the other route ?
I will not literally say "Take this job and shove it!". My manager will be pissed that I'm leaving and want to know why. I'll be as transparent as possible.
Congrats on the pending new job!!
It's not really his business why your leaving. I would simply tell him I am exploring other opportunities and give my two week notice.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who will say this... but that's a horrible idea..
I concur. I worked for a casino in Atlantic City, a co-worker, who was a Network Administrator gave 4 hours notice that he was quitting. My manager attempted to talk him into giving his two weeks instead, and she would give him a good reference, but he refused. He was moving to Florida and was convinced that he didn't need the reference and he was never coming back.
Three months later he was back. He had sold his house in New Jersey and made a nice profit. He was using that money to live off of while trying to find a good job in Florida. Nothing panned out for him. He had a tough time finding work in Atlantic City because of what he did. A few years later I was working for the government as a contractor, he was eventually hired to work in the help desk call center. It was a thankless job, tied to a desk, answering user phone calls all day. A few openings came up in my department that he would have been great for, but I didn't tell him about them or recommend him due to his damaged rep.
The thing is you never know who you might be working for in the future. Hell it could be the janitor at one of your former employers that is the hiring manager for a desirable position in a future company. You just never know what may develop in the future, so don't burn any bridges, you may need them in the future.
One of the lessons that I've learned in life is that your past will always come back to haunt you one day.
This world is not as big as everyone thinks it is and the concept of the 6 degrees of separation is so true as there is a friend, who knows a friend, who knows a friend, who knows all about you.
So, always put some thought into your actions so that it at least looks like you tried to do the best with what you thought that you had at the time you made your decision about.
Currently interviewing at 2 places. I'm confident that 1 or both of them will give me an offer. When they do, I can't wait to tell my current employer to "Take this job and shove it!"
2 weeks' notice? Maybe, if I'm feeling generous.
You already know it's a bad idea to do that, but I'll reiterate and expand upon what all the others have said. No matter how bad your current job is, be gracious to your boss when (if) you resign. After all, they gave you a job and a paycheck, so that alone is a reason to be grateful, is it not? Besides, you don't have an offer from either place that you interviewed with as yet. Don't count your chickens. . .
I worked at McDonald's. There was a guy there who on his first day, was asked to take the garbage out. The manager see him 15 minutes later just walking down the street home. I won't reveal his name on here, but suffice to say that even though I didn't work their at the time, his reputation was ruined for anyone who came through afterwards.
That's the worst case scenario.
So the worst case scenario is being blacklisted at the local McDonalds? Is that the best example you could come up with?
Also, thanks for not revealing his name. I'm sure that everyone cares about John Brown, the local teen who quit McDonalds on his first day.
In most cases, when you give 2 weeks notice the employer doesn't keep you around that long anyway. The last thing a company wants is a short timer putting out negative vibes and being generally unproductive. 50% of the time the employer will let you go the day you put in your notice, at least from my experience.
When I have accepted a new job I generally tell the new employer that I will give my current one two weeks notice but that they might let me go earlier. That way they know I am doing the right thing but might be available earlier.
One employer said to me "So when do you plan on leaving" and I told them I would give them two weeks notice if they wanted it. But they said "Let's just wrap it up today" and we parted friends.
I can use the example of someone that works with us now. He previously worked for my wife's company and we came on board the same day. He made a big mess at his old company right before leaving and just quit. I mentioned his name at a Christmas party for my wife's company and folks were fuming. He was the type that started everything but finished nothing and left a lot of loose ends and people struggling to tie them up. He caused a lot of heartburn at the old company. He managed to get a higher authority job here from someone he knew and I couldn't figure out why he got no respect from anyone. I found out later that some folks at the old company talked to some folks here and spilled the beans on how horrible of a job he had done. He was doing the same thing here when the big boss was told of his previous job. He was told publicly that he sucked at his new job and if he intended on working like he did at his last one, that he could exit the building pronto.
It absolutely follows you.
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