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  • I'm resigning today

    Today I'm giving my super 2 weeks notice. I have in hand a check list of things I need to do, one is let payroll know. So once I put the letter of resignation on the super's desk, I will then send one to payroll. Then there are other little things on the checklist I need to do.

    I've been hauling bunch of my stuff home already.

    I hope my super doesn't want to have a "talk", I'm sick of this place.
    Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

    Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

    I wish porn had subtitles.

  • #2
    Be warned: You may not have 2 weeks. Last time I put in notice at a job, I get sent home three days later.
    "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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    • #3
      I'm hoping you have an alternate job lined up. Yes?

      Rapscallion

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      • #4
        Be warned: You may not have 2 weeks. Last time I put in notice at a job, I get sent home three days later.
        I have to deal with a bureaucracy, so I think it will take time. Even if they kick me out sooner, I don't care. I took about 70% of my stuff home already.

        I'm hoping you have an alternate job lined up. Yes?
        Nope. I have money saved up. I want to take it easy first, then search, though people say "oh, but your resume is going to show a gap and your prospective employers and going to look at that and ask you why."
        Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

        Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

        I wish porn had subtitles.

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        • #5
          All the best
          Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum! - Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

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          What's the difference?
          We're allowed to tell you "no".

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          • #6
            Quoth depechemodefan View Post

            Nope. I have money saved up. I want to take it easy first, then search, though people say "oh, but your resume is going to show a gap and your prospective employers and going to look at that and ask you why."
            I don't see why, to be very honest. I mean, I'm not saying they won't ask, but I don't understand why they would feel the need to. There are plenty of reasons as to why someone might have a gap between employments, the biggest and easiest one being: I just couldn't find a job, despite looking.
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            • #7
              Mind the gap!

              http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla...no-199510.aspx

              And good luck.

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              • #8
                AmbrosiaWriter, I've never been an employer, so I don't know what it is they're looking for, but that seems to be a standard question, especially if you quit the previous job. Perhaps they're just checking to see if you've got incentive and drive -- did you volunteer? take classes? -- or did you spend all your unemployed time harvesting imaginary crops on Farmville ... ? *koff*

                I've also heard the saying often that it's easier to find a job if you've already got one ... again, I don't know why that is, especially in today's economy, where so many people are out of work not through their own choosing.

                LOL, sms001, thanks for the link!

                depechemodefan, good luck and best wishes. If you do think you might be asked about what you were doing in that gap, and especially if you think the gap may be a long one, you might want to look into volunteer work, especially if you can find some that's related to a type of work you'd like to do.

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                • #9
                  Part of it has to do with appearing to be knowledgable of current trends in your chosen industry, if you're unemployed the assumption is that your not up on them.
                  Personally, I would love Depeshemodefans job. I've always wanted to work in a library.

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                  • #10
                    Wait...why does it matter what you do in your off time? If you volunteer or screw off on farmville? As it turns out mine would probably be impressive with the work I do in the local grange hall/flea market biz but still.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth depechemodefan View Post
                      Today I'm giving my super 2 weeks notice
                      At first when I read that I thought... what's the difference between "super" weeks and regular ones?

                      Quoth Crazed Clerk II
                      You may not have 2 weeks. Last time I put in notice at a job, I get sent home three days later.
                      That's what occasionally happens at Pathetica if the big boss suspects the employee may be going to work for a competitor. Not because of spying or anything, but because that suggests the "good guys" can be enticed away with a bigger wage, until the quality of service drops and more people shop at the competitor's. And once their store succeeds, they could lower the wages to pre-what you were making.

                      Eh. People are people.
                      Why do they make Superglue but not Batglue?

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                      • #12
                        Quoth telecom_goddess View Post
                        Wait...why does it matter what you do in your off time? If you volunteer or screw off on farmville? As it turns out mine would probably be impressive with the work I do in the local grange hall/flea market biz but still.
                        Honestly, I have no idea why. It just seems to be a major factor in job-hunting that, if you have a gap in your employment and can't explain it with anything 'worthwhile,' you are automatically consigned to Coventry. Google 'explaining gaps in employment history' and you will get a *ahem* truckload of links. (One article says many employers will "rush to judgement.") Several articles suggest that the best way to avoid this is the 'functional' resume, as opposed to the 'chronological.' Others offer different ways of explaining away gaps (adding that some gaps are probably more acceptable than others ... raising a family or caring for an elderly parent versus incarceration, for example ...) This issue was also discussed during my time at the job-finding seminars I attended shortly after my return to My Hometown.

                        I freely admit that I spent the first six months after my layoff playing Farmville (I also did volunteer work, but mostly to give some kind of structure to my weeks!) But I knew I was going back to school so the certificate/diploma/whatever would ultimately more than likely carry the day.

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                        • #13
                          People are people.
                          Why should it be?

                          Well, I thold the super and she asked if I had another job, and asked what I was going to do. Then she asked if I wanted a send-off. I said "ok" figuring meaning less desk time for me, and everyone can have cake Personally, I hate being the center of attention, but parties are for everyone!

                          Supper gave letter of resignation to Chief. Chief calls me in, asked me to sign my resignation (doh!) and asked what am I going to do. I tell her "something different." She asked if I wanted others to know and I said yeah.

                          So now bunch of people know and are asking me what I plan to do.

                          And now I have paperwork, 3 different forms. blah. One is an exit interview and they want to know why I'm leaving. The paperwork assumes you got another job. The paperwork makes me want to give up on checking-out.

                          you might want to look into volunteer work, especially if you can find some that's related to a type of work you'd like to do.
                          Volunteer work seems like I have contact with people, esp. the crazies. Though it is political season, maybe I can volunteer to lick some envelopes (though I do know that a special bottle with a sponge on the top is used to wet the glue on the envelopes...and that there are self-adhesive envelopes. I just like saying "lick some envelopes"). I do plan to work for Christmas time.

                          I've always wanted to work in a library.
                          The mentally disturbed people go to the library. A lot of patron body fluids are involved. In theory, between readking Kirkus and shelving, you would help boys, girls and adults maximize their learning experiences by showing them how to use the catalog and databases but so far 80% want you to do the work for them. It's gotten to the point I want to tell off parents for doing the work for their kids (which I did a few times) and kick the asses of the losers who eat in the library and leave the wrappers behind, sometimes on the shelves. You know, just dream the dream of a perfect library, just don't work in one (Unless it's the new library in Seattle. The big-wigs here cream their pants about that library. Though a cw from here worked in Seatle and never meet so many sucidal people in one place).
                          Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                          Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                          I wish porn had subtitles.

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                          • #14
                            Library work is... interesting. I've been in libraries for a long time, both public and academic, and I really do love what I do. But in public library work, you do deal with a large number and variety of, erm, "personalities." When depechemodefan says patron bodily fluids are involved, it's not an exaggeration. Neither is the part about "doing their work for them." My background is in systems and computer tech support. I clearly remember one lady throwing an utter hissy fit because I wouldn't spend all day up there with her formatting her paper for her. The librarian in charge was cool, though: she knew I was the only one on call that day, my job description was explicitly for in-house support (i.e. not patron support), and the patron was utterly unresponsive to the notion that she could look it up in, say, Word for Dummies, which happened to be on the shelf and available.

                            A great deal of what I was involved with involved removing "adult material" (at times of the sort that should involve lengthy prison terms) from computers, and in taking steps to hinder access to more "adult materials" (no fratching on library policy, please. I was just doing my job.) We (at the library) have also had to deal with very aggressive panhandlers, one or two cases of indecent exposure, several cases of "assorted activities" on the back emergency escape staircases, and people stealing anything and everything that's not nailed down.

                            That's not to say I hated it, not in the least. But public-facing service in a public library is a greater adventure than most people realize.

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                            • #15
                              I had to take a business community communications course. My prof said that long gaps in employment without a good explanation (homemaking, school, etc.) can be a sign that the candidate is unhireable. It's not really fair in this economy, since there are plenty of very hireable people who have been out of work for a long time but for jobs with lots of applicants, hiring managers can use that as an easy way to thin the herd of people to interview. It's sad, but true.

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