[Closed] How hard can it be to resign?

None of this makes me think I'm making a mistake.

Yep, it would certainly seem, that way

Nipping one off in the middle of reception is often a speedier way of tendering your resignation. Set fire to a couple of bins also.

It ain't that hard. I did it last Thursday. 😀

Write an actual letter. Sign it. Makea copy for yourself, give a copy to your manager, post a copy to HR.

if that fails, just quietly stand up get your coat and walk out, never to be seen again - it's the uncertainty as to what happens that kills them

I've always handed my boss a printed letter when I've resigned.

Included in my view of when my last day is and leave them to it.

If I recall the last time (large consultancy) I was then contacted by HR with all the appropriate forms to fill in.

I was once threatened with my annual review being down graded for failing to follow the correct process when resigning.

When I pointed out I would have left the company 9 months before that review I was told it was people like me abusing the process that was causing the low morale.

I suggested it could be the pointless processes and bureaucracy that prevented people actually doing their job that could be causing the low morale but was told that I was talking twaddle.

The company folded about 5 months later

If all else fails, dirty protest.

WCA - the problem is that government departments don't usually fold five months later. They are immortal.

A dirty protest is an interesting possibility.

A dirty protest needs preparation - there’s no point turning up one day and then laying a nice neat poo-let on the Reception desk. You need to prepare your system to deliver poo-magedden though a week’s curry-and-kebab-fest.

Then, a few minutes before the big event, a couple of sachets of Picolax… 😈

Rachel

The mrs had done this last week. **** of a boss said go away and think about your decision over the weekend and I'll see also what I can do re the issues. She's seen him again today and he's done nothing so she's told him to whistle! Thank God I'm not going on her works do this year as the combination of his bell endery and stella may have been too much to bare...

Sure you want to resign and not hold out for the opportunity of package?

Seems a little hasty if this is all as a result of your p/t working application.

There is no package. We are short staffed and recruiting, hence they don't want to let me drop to part time hours.

Need to walk now so we don't start incurring the childcare costs we were trying to avoid after the New Year.

It will be interesting to see if they change their mind once you have shown you are serious abut walking.

Rachel

Torch the place.....

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Good luck OP, clearly they are in denial 🙂 or at the very least trying to delay your last working day

was once threatened with my annual review being down graded for failing to follow the correct process when resigning

Bollox to all that twaddle. Send HR and boss an email telling them you're going, when your last day will be and that the next day you won't be in. Then start clearing your desk.

Write "I resign" on your cock, show it to people at work until the company agrees with you.

Ask for smallish payrise, get knocked back, hand prepared resignation letter to manager. Walk back to desk and wait for the shit to hit the fan.

The shit really hit the fan.

Splattered everywhere. What a mess. Millions in losses, closed factory site, 400 unemployed/redeployed

I like to think their complete ignorance about what skilled, qualified engineers earned in the real world helped. About a dozen of my team left within the following 6 months, most took somewhere between large and massive payrises.

HA.

OP, looks like your Line Manager will be getting some stick for this and he/she knows it hence the "do it in triplicate and signed in blood" scenario pointed out. It'll be "why the fek did you let a valued employee leave when his simple ask was to drop hours blahdiblah." Just wondering now if that request you made got any further from him/her above or to HR.. It may have, it may not have. I'd start with a copy of the request you made, just in case it goes a bit sour.

Step 1 - you've done whats required and informed your Line Manager
Step 2 - you've been asked to duplicate and send to HR, you've done that too.

There isn't a step three other than the one you take out of the door.

HTH's

Id wait till just after payday then never come back.

If it's reduced hours they're pushing back on due to being understaffed (and you are prepared to leave due to this) then whatever you do DON'T go back when they offer you the reduced hours you were after..

I had flexible working under a boss that was uncomfortable with the whole idea, and it was a shambles. I left shortly after they stopped my flexible working, but should have left before I started it.

JUst show up part time in the new year as you requested, by the time you're performance managed out you'll have had six months or more full time pay packets

Then, a few minutes before the big event, [b]a couple of sachets[/b] of Picolax…

There's making a statement, and then there's taking the piss 😯

you've told your boss, let him deal with **** HR

Write [s]"I resign"[/s] " This situation has become simply intolerable and, under no circumstances, can I continue in this untenable position and hereby give notice of my intention to terminate my employment" on your cock, show it to people at work until the company agrees with you.

This is what I would do. 😉

I'm not sure "Thi" would make a lot of sense.

[i]This is what I would do.[/i]

The all you'd need to do is find a hipster with a portable fiche reader...

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bearnecessities - have you been peeking?

There is always the possibility that I am not the valued employee that you all think I am and that there is just a plot to piss me off even more before I leave?

Somebody I knew, a few years ago......

He was offered a job, better pay, better work at a reputable company, so went to in to the crap bike co and offered his resignation. They said, hold on, don't go. We'll put you on that cushy desk over there and look at increasing pay etc. He turned up the next day and they put him straight back onto his old, rubbish job, no mention of anything already promised. He sat there like a good boy until morning break, then just walked out of the building without saying a word to anyone. Started his new job the following week.

(Not me - I'd already walked out of the same crap bike company about a year before without as much style.)

A dirty protest needs preparation - there’s no point turning up one day and then laying a nice neat poo-let on the Reception desk. You need to prepare your system to deliver poo-magedden though a week’s curry-and-kebab-fest.

Then, a few minutes before the big event, a couple of sachets of Picolax…

Rachel

you've obviously been thinking about this 😯

There is always the possibility that I am not the valued employee that you all think I am and that there is just a plot to piss me off even more before I leave?

I know where you work & I know you're not valued 🙂

Not asked for I accept, but my opinion is that from what you've posted here, you should sit down, take a breath and have a proper think about your options before throwing the towel in on a well paid job (in an organisation that [u]will[/u] be changing in structure, hence holding out for a package comment)

I know where you work & I know you're not valued

[i]Shhhh[/i] 🙂

EDIT: If I was, I'd have set up monitoring of his internet usage long ago!

You've given them the letter - just stop turning up and see if they i) realise ii) stop paying you.

Internal fraud did me for my internet usage a few years ago. That's what 4G is for!

I appreciate your thoughts bearnecessities, but we don't make people redundant and give them packages any more. I'm at one of the sites that definitely isn't closing. As for well paid, the benefit cap has just been lowered below my salary level.

And I'm damned if I will piss around any more for a job that has had me off sick with anxiety and depression, prescribed anti depressants and on a course of CBT.

Just had an email from my boss wanting to know why I had copied him in to a blank template to HR. If he'd scrolled down the email he'd see the text that went into the template.

Similar experience as one of the posters above when I resigned from my last job.
I rang up the HR Dept (I worked remotely), told them I'd be leaving at the end of the Month, and would they like it in writing etc.
I got a call from my Manager later that day, asking what do I think I'm doing ringing up HR, when I should have rang him first, and that he'd be giving me a written warning if I do it again.

He wasnt the sharpest tool.

perchypanther - Member

Write "I resign" " This situation has become simply intolerable and, under no circumstances, can I continue in this untenable position and hereby give notice of my intention to terminate my employment" on your cock, show it to people at work until the company agrees with you.

This is what I would do.

Shouldn't you be writing that on your banana?

Not asked for I accept, but my opinion is that from what you've posted here, you should sit down, take a breath and have a proper think about your options before throwing the towel in on a well paid job (in an organisation that will be changing in structure, hence holding out for a package comment)

This ^ x100

It's not well paid. We are recruiting, not laying off.

X100

I'd say a letter or email to your immediate manager is fine regardless of protocol, your terminating a contract, as long as you can prove the resignation is delivered email is probably better as it's free and traceable then it's legally binding.

HT can huff and puff about format and protocol until the cows come home.

And I'm damned if I will piss around any more for a job that has had me off sick with anxiety and depression, prescribed anti depressants and on a course of CBT.

Just when I started working for my current employers, they had discovered that someone who had walked out 2 years previously was still getting paid - their manager had left the day after and they hadn't filled the correct form in.

I live in hope.....

Good luck with your decision, hope it's the right one for you!

That sounds more like grounds for being signed off sick rather than resigning

3 weeks signed off with day time telly earlier in the year demonstrated what true depression really means.....

The resigning is due to swapping household roles with wife going full time and me wanting to go part time to fit around the kids and ageing parents.

The fact that Occy Health stated that reducing my hours would be better for my well being and attendance appears to be being ignored 😕

j4mie - Member

Just when I started working for my current employers, they had discovered that someone who had walked out 2 years previously was still getting paid - their manager had left the day after and they hadn't filled the correct form in.

So, you worked with Milton at Initech! I guess you took his stapler, too. 😆
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And I'm damned if I will piss around any more for a job that has had me off sick with anxiety and depression, prescribed anti depressants and on a course of CBT.

With this /\/\

Write a letter, email it(copying your personal address in) hand in a hard copy(dated, signed,photocopied). Specify a date and stick to it.

Your not a ****ing serf!!! Let them sort it out, it's up to them if they just want yo bury their heads in the sand.

Being a tiny bit more reasonable, what does employment law say on the matter?

You just have to give the correct amount of notice as per your employment contract according to acas, you can even do it verbally.. Although written is preferable..

[url= http://m.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4095 ]Acas[/url]

I'd say a letter or email to your immediate manager is fine regardless of protocol, your terminating a contract, as long as you can prove the resignation is delivered email is probably better as it's free and traceable then it's legally binding.

HT can huff and puff about format and protocol until the cows come home.

You just have to give the correct notice, according to acas, you can even do it verbally.. Although written is preferable..

This. A short letter, stating when your last day is. Signed and dated. Don't go into reasons or whatever, just the fact you're going.

[quote="j4mie"]Just when I started working for my current employers, they had discovered that someone who had walked out 2 years previously was still getting paid - their manager had left the day after and they hadn't filled the correct form in.There is a legend regarding the colossal incompetence at one of the UKs most useless car manufacturers (Rover) during a reorg in the 70's one poor (lucky?) chap was meant to have been made redundant, but due to a filing error (all manual in those days) he suddenly ended up with no department, no boss, no direct reports, no colleagues and no actual role to do.

But they didn't tell him. Or realise they were still paying him.

Got all the way to retirement (10+ years) without doing a single days work.

They were just as bad in the few months i was working with them in the 90's.

Don't go into reasons or whatever, just the fact you're going.

This... MrsSheeps has just toned down my resignation letter (that my boss will be getting this morning) removing all the emotion, and reasons why I'm going and what management changes precipitated the move.

Just simply, I resign, I have 3 months notice, this identifies the start of it*

*I am soooooo hoping for gardening leave but equally sooooo unlikely!!

Good luck sheeps.

I got made redundant in 99 when I had a proper job with 3 months notice. 3 months gardening leave became 3 weeks with my feet up followed by an immediate start working at the gym where I trained anyway. That saved me £40 a month.....

Yep my last one had a simple statement of the required facts and was delivered in person to my line manager with the instructions that there were 2 copies confirm what you need to do.

When I resigned it was a letter handed to my line manager stating the fact of my resignation, how many days holiday left that I would be taking and what my final working date would be, based on the minimum notice period I could give.

I had an exit interview with HR manager about a week later and put the boot in the line managers backside.
She ended up on gardening leave about 6 months later before getting the sack. My only regret about leaving was that I didnt get to enjoy that.

+1 about taking all the emotion and bitterness out of your resignation letter, no matter how justified it is. You never know when you might meet that person again, or need their help, no matter how much you doubt it now.
For example, a couple of years ago I applied for residency in Australia and needed references going right back to my first job thirty years ago, and it helped enormously that I left all my previous jobs on good terms.
Interesting footnote to it all was that after catching up with a couple of the people I thought were complete bellends at the time, some (but not all!!) turned out to be not bad people afterall, but just trying to do the best they could under difficult circumstances.

Interesting footnote to it all was that after catching up with a couple of the people I thought were complete bellends at the time, some (but not all!!) turned out to be not bad people afterall, but just trying to do the best they could under difficult circumstances.

The only real bell end line manager I've had I'm fairly sure is not a total bell end, just totally unsuited to people management. But I'm only human so I still treat him like he's a bell end (still in the same organisation, different dept.) - to the point that when his team were facing low workload challenges, I warned my line manager off him just in case.

I'm guessing you're in the Public Sector, so just follow [b]their[/b] rules and do as the rules say.

Resign correctly, and leave on the day defined.

There seems to be a lot of fuss over this, most of us have statd the most simple of tasks and delivery method.

Simple letter, dated, reason for resignation, notice period you expect to work within that period, note all holiday entitlement left/or expect to take, hand to Line Manager, cc' HR in.

End

And enjoy the rest of the time there, and do your best to uphold your end.

you need to quit?
this is how you do it....

Where's the picture of the cake with the resignation letter on it?

If you are struggling to uphold your end I'm sure asking an attractive co worker to do it for you will expedite your departure.

Last time I did it I rang my boss out of courtesy and told him that I would be emailing my resignation. I then sent him an email confirming the call and giving the details of my last day etc. Pure fact, no emotion. It's then up to your line manager to liaise with HR.

HTH

I think I have complied with [b]their[/b] rules. Third attempt hasn't been returned on a technicality as yet.

Union rep has just gone nuclear with the HR director about them declining my part time working request. I'm having far too much fun watching it all kick off to get much done today!

...to the point that when his team were facing low workload challenges...

Say whaaat?

The last time I resigned, well I was made redundant but told I "must" work my notice period, it was a letter to my line manager, copied to HR, with "I resign as of this date, I will be taking my remaining holidays on these dates, my last day will be..."

Then lots of this:

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[i]Union rep has just gone nuclear with the HR director about them declining my part time working request.[/i]

I kinda assumed Public Sector when you said that they were hiring but wouldn't let you go p/t...

...to the point that when his team were facing low workload challenges...
Say whaaat?

When they had **** all work coming in and everyone was jumping to other teams.

Aaah betterer. Thought there'd been a nasty outbreak of middle management made up bolleaux there for a mo....

Getting pedantic about how someone is resigning sounds like a company i wouldnt like to work for, do they have a jobsworth dept?
My last day at work after being made redundant and being the only person left other than my line manager who had the day off i was told to work till 5pm otherwise it would affect my final redundancy pay. Quick call to a pal in payroll confirmed my final pay had gone to my bank at 11.30am and within a minute i had turned the lights off and left to buy my mates lunch and a few drinks. Why do they make it awkward for people to leave, its so uneccessary.