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I think it's normal to be nervous with such a big change, it sounds like you've been at your current job a while.

But with the extra pay and hopefully better working environment, in a week you'll probably be much happier!
 
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If your supervisor is as bad as you say then your coworker will probably be cheering you on.

Exactly. Everyone thinks they are more irreplaceable than they are. Even if it takes two people to do his job they will get two people.
 
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Go straight to HR. Let your boss find out through HR. You owe her nothing so don’t give her anything.



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Two thoughts here.

I was nervous about giving my two weeks at my last job. I was sure she was going to tell me to GTFO. I was wrong. It was a good two weeks.

That said, I knew for a fact, that the offer wouldn’t be rescinded.

If it may be rescinded, is the company worth working for? Really, ask yourself that.

Also, if it’s worth working for, but the offer may still be rescinded, and your current supervisor is Satan’s Mistress, fuck them,
No notice. Call in sick the day (and few after) you are to show up at your new job. Once you start working and have completed a few days and feel comfortable, contact HR of your old job and tell them your supervisor is a mattress packing whore, and fuck her, you’re out.



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So what are the odds they will escort you to your desk and watch as you pack it up and escort you off of property?


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Posts: 4802 | Location: SWMO | Registered: October 20, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Last March I left my job of 13 years because it had become a toxic hell, my blood pressure was through the roof and it was making me one seriously miserable prick. I took a job making over $7/hour less to get away from it. It was more liberating than anxiety causing. I start a different job on the 20th making almost $5/hour more than I’m getting now. I’m anxious to get started but I gave my current employer a notice.

As others have mentioned, this is the economy to switch jobs. Everyone that wants a job in my area has one and businesses are scrambling to poach good people from each other. Do yourself a favor, submit your notice to HR first, to she devil second. Be polite and professional even if she has a meltdown. Living well is the best revenge and if you smile and say things like, “I’m sorry you feel that way” it’ll eat at her far worse than if you yell back or walk out. Fortune favors the bold! GOOD LUCK!
 
Posts: 13731 | Location: Shenandoah Valley, VA | Registered: October 16, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I’ll also be concerned about the possibility that the offer I received will be rescinded. Hell, we’ve seen it happen right here on these forums to other members in the past. So there’s that too.

Just submit your notice respectfully even though the temptation to burn that bridge is likely to be very high. That way you leave the possibility of returning to your other than ideal situation until you find something else should the worst happen.

Even so, that scenario, while possible is unlikely... so relax and enjoy the ride.




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Posts: 6708 | Location: New Orleans Area | Registered: January 12, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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So what are the odds they will escort you to your desk and watch as you pack it up and escort you off of property?


Literally zero. They need to get every bit of production out of me that they can. If we were closer to a big city like Chicago the odds of quickly finding a replacement would be much better for them. But since they are located in the sticks it’s going to be difficult. Not nearly as much skilled talent (in this exact position). They were fortunate that they found me seven years ago....I lived only 15 minutes away. In the almost 70 years of being in business I was the very first person who did my job that had the education, training and background to do the specialized electrical training that I do. Up until me they just pulled people from different departments to fill in and help. Now that they have to report to government agencies like the DOE (and other rules) they can’t get away with it anymore.
 
Posts: 683 | Location: Milwaukee, WI | Registered: July 21, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Thanks for the words of advice everyone.

What I originally wanted to do was submit my resignation via email over the weekend, but then I figured it would be viewed as being spineless.

So my plan right now is to go straight to her as soon as I get in....she should be at her desk. If not then I’ll go find her and hand it over. Then I’m going to take another copy to the HR manager if she is there (she is the only person in our HR department). It’s payroll day so she SHOULD be there this morning but you never know anymore. It’s a small company (less than 100 people) so she gets away with making her own hours it seems like.

Then I’m going to take the advice here and I’m going to email a copy to all pertinent people. Address it to my boss and carbon copy HR as well as the director of manufacturing (I just don’t see the need to hand him a paper copy) and then try to go about my day.

Management isn’t going to be happy but I know all of the hourly employees are going to be happy for me. So we’ll see how everything shakes out.
 
Posts: 683 | Location: Milwaukee, WI | Registered: July 21, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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First, congratulations on the new job. Focus your energy on that, the positive.

Second, do not in any way burn bridges. Smile, wish the person well in all future endeavors and leave it at that. It's not easy but one never knows when your paths will cross again.

Two stories: I worked for a manager I truly enjoyed, a peer was not so happy with him. My manager took a job with another company. I told him I would love to work for him again if the opportunity arose, and I meant it. At his going away party my peer very publicly told the manager what she thought and that she would never work from him again.

One month later my manager was back, the company owner made him an offer and promoted him, a significantly better deal. I was happy. It turned out my peer was prophetic.

I worked for an executive that didn't like me and I didn't like him. I knew I needed to leave. My last day, coming from HR, I ran into him in the lobby. Wished him well in the future, shook hands and left.

Two years later that executive was a CEO of a subsidiary of the company I worked for, he could have made my life difficult but didn't. Burning that bridge probably would have changed that dynamic.



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Posts: 713 | Location: North of Pittsburgh, PA | Registered: January 29, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I have no intentions of burning any bridges at all. I plan on working my last two weeks with professionalism, but I don’t know if my boss will be able to return the favor. I’m prepared to walk out if needed, but I will do so calmly and without creating a scene. I don’t have to take her bullying anymore, and I hope she realizes that.

If HR does an exit interview I kind of feel it’s my obligation to let them know exactly why I’m leaving. More or less to give them a chance to work with her so the next guy doesn’t have to deal with what I have. They had warnings in the recent past about all of this and did nothing....so maybe this will encourage them to fix the situation.
 
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I didn’t hold back in my exit interview from the toxic pit of hell. I kept it professional but it was brutal and to the point. Nothing has changed at that place. I know of six more people that are leaving as soon as their background checks clear at other companies. They shafted long term employees again this year and the turnover rate has hit 80% several times. The only thing I did wrong was staying as long as I did.
 
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Good luck today, but please update us this afternoon/evening.
 
Posts: 3848 | Location: 1,960' up in Murphy, NC | Registered: January 29, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I have no intentions of burning any bridges at all. I plan on working my last two weeks with professionalism, but I don’t know if my boss will be able to return the favor. I’m prepared to walk out if needed, but I will do so calmly and without creating a scene. I don’t have to take her bullying anymore, and I hope she realizes that.

If HR does an exit interview I kind of feel it’s my obligation to let them know exactly why I’m leaving. More or less to give them a chance to work with her so the next guy doesn’t have to deal with what I have. They had warnings in the recent past about all of this and did nothing....so maybe this will encourage them to fix the situation.


First of all CONGRATULATIONS!! If HR and everyone knows about the bully and did nothing before - you may probably expect the same. However, if you specifically documented the unacceptable behavior in your resignation, who knows? Perhaps a CC to your state's employee rights office?
 
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A little over a month ago I made a post asking if anyone here has ever worked as a critical facilities technician at a data center because I was thinking about making a career change.

Well I interviewed shortly thereafter and got an offer on Friday! I of course accepted it. Pay is about 1k more per month when factoring in the wages and holiday pay (shift work at a 24/7 manned data center). Add in some shift coverages over the course of the year and it’s going to be around 15-20k more than what I’m making now.

Plus, I get away from the most toxic person in any professional level I’ve ever met....my current supervisor. She is 99.9% of the reason I even started looking in the first place. The other .1% is because I’m just tired of what I’m doing...but I would continue to do it if she wasn’t such an evil bitch.

So why in the hell am I so nervous about putting in my notice tomorrow morning? I’ve been dreaming about getting rid of my boss for years now, it just seems irrational to dread tomorrow morning so much.

I’ll also be concerned about the possibility that the offer I received will be rescinded. Hell, we’ve seen it happen right here on these forums to other members in the past. So there’s that too.

I just wish I wasn’t a big ball of nerves right now. I know I shouldn’t be like this but I just can’t help it.
. Good luck, and one of your reasons for leaving the present job shows that people don’t leave company’s but leave managers or in your case supervisers
 
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Well the deed is done. I met my supervisor very first thing in the morning and handed her the letter and told her I was resigning and my last day was going to be the 20th. I saw the anger take over her face for a moment and then she covered it up. She thanked me for everything I’ve done the past 7 years and then mentioned there will be an exit interview with HR at some point. The couple more times I saw her in the morning she was more polite to me than she has been in months. Then I didn’t see her again until the end of the day and she acted like we were best friends again trying to joke around.

When I handed my resignation letter to the HR director she looked shell shocked and just looked at me for a few seconds. Then she took the letter and set it on her desk and said we will have an exit interview next week sometime after she gets all the paperwork together.

Director of manufacturing acted like normal first thing in the morning but by late morning he looked PISSED as he walked by me. I don’t know if it was because of me or not...hard to speculate. But he wasn’t happy about something. It could have been that the owner was warned that I was looking for a new job a month ago and the owner wanted my supervisor dealt with....which they never did anything about. So it could have been related....dunno.

My coworker called in sick today because one of his kids is sick so I didn’t have a chance to tell him in person that I’m leaving. So I had to text him to let him know so he could think of what he wanted to say if they want to push the lead position (my current position) onto him. When I took over the job I didn’t get a pay raise at all (which is what every other lead person received) so I don’t want him to be unprepared if they try to push him into it, especially when he’s been telling me he doesn’t want it. So hopefully he will show up tomorrow.

Other than that management is keeping pretty quiet about it. They’ve only told managers so far it appears.
 
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Well the deed is done. I met my supervisor very first thing in the morning and handed her the letter and told her I was resigning and my last day was going to be the 20th. I saw the anger take over her face for a moment and then she covered it up. She thanked me for everything I’ve done the past 7 years and then mentioned there will be an exit interview with HR at some point. The couple more times I saw her in the morning she was more polite to me than she has been in months. Then I didn’t see her again until the end of the day and she acted like we were best friends again trying to joke around.

When I handed my resignation letter to the HR director she looked shell shocked and just looked at me for a few seconds. Then she took the letter and set it on her desk and said we will have an exit interview next week sometime after she gets all the paperwork together.

Director of manufacturing acted like normal first thing in the morning but by late morning he looked PISSED as he walked by me. I don’t know if it was because of me or not...hard to speculate. But he wasn’t happy about something. It could have been that the owner was warned that I was looking for a new job a month ago and the owner wanted my supervisor dealt with....which they never did anything about. So it could have been related....dunno.

My coworker called in sick today because one of his kids is sick so I didn’t have a chance to tell him in person that I’m leaving. So I had to text him to let him know so he could think of what he wanted to say if they want to push the lead position (my current position) onto him. When I took over the job I didn’t get a pay raise at all (which is what every other lead person received) so I don’t want him to be unprepared if they try to push him into it, especially when he’s been telling me he doesn’t want it. So hopefully he will show up tomorrow.

Other than that management is keeping pretty quiet about it. They’ve only told managers so far it appears.
Good on you for giving your coworker a heads up so he might be able to help himself out even if it is for a short time.
 
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Nothing good will come of being brutally honest in the exit interview. They know what the reason is. Say what you want, but they will put down that you are leaving for more money.
HR is there to cover for the management, not to gain information on improving the business.
 
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So what are the odds they will escort you to your desk and watch as you pack it up and escort you off of property?


Literally zero. They need to get every bit of production out of me that they can. If we were closer to a big city like Chicago the odds of quickly finding a replacement would be much better for them. But since they are located in the sticks it’s going to be difficult. Not nearly as much skilled talent (in this exact position). They were fortunate that they found me seven years ago....I lived only 15 minutes away. In the almost 70 years of being in business I was the very first person who did my job that had the education, training and background to do the specialized electrical training that I do. Up until me they just pulled people from different departments to fill in and help. Now that they have to report to government agencies like the DOE (and other rules) they can’t get away with it anymore.

Not my intention to put a pin in your ego balloon, but you did state that they have been in business for 70 years. They will get along just fine without you, trust in that fact. No employee is irreplaceable.


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I know they will find someone to replace me, but my emphasis is that it’s going to take time. More time than you would typically think it should take.

Part of the reason for this I’ve already mentioned (specialized skill set required and location of the company) and the other major factor is because the HR department consists of one person, the HR manager. She doesn’t do any active recruiting and relies solely on temp agencies to find people. Most people that do this kind of work aren’t going to be too keen on the idea of working for a temp agency, and I wouldn’t blame them at all. The stipulation I had when I started was that I had to be hired on directly, and they did that. They will have to do the same again. Their best bet is going to be to snipe a person from another manufacturer that does larger transformers in Wisconsin (that’s where the guy I work with came from) but in order to talk someone into that they will have to take a pay cut.
 
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