Resigned

MrBump

Resigned last week.  On 3 months notice, so my working life has descended into some sort of twilight zone of nether being engaged nor fully disengaged.

Haven't changed jobs for over 8 years.  Feels weird.

fretmeister

Can they not let you have gardening leave?

3 months of just wanting to get one with it at the new place is a nightmare. Done it myself.

57Deluxe

I hate it when HR suddenly gets the notion that you are suddenly 'a threat' and then march in and march you out unannounced before your time... Fcucking hate that trait...

...so - swap your laptop HDD over now!

benmurray85

Three months notice? Ouch!!!

fretmeister

57Deluxe said:

I hate it when HR suddenly gets the notion that you are suddenly 'a threat' and then march in and march you out unannounced before your time... Fcucking hate that trait...

They still have to pay you. I have no problem with that.

In my working life I've had 3 months gardening leave, and also had to work 3 months notice with genuinely zero to do after I had prepared file transfer memos. The former was fine. The latter is astonishingly boring.

DLM

^^ Not all that uncommon, my last notice period was actually "three months to the end of the quarter", so even longer...

I asked to be let go early and was refused, which wasn't a great surprise. No gardening leave, either.

roundthebend

I suggested to my employer that I might leave, and they hinted that it might be possible to shorten the notice period.
I could probably take that as some form of constructive dismissal, but I decided to stay anyway. Just to spite them!

MrBump

3 months takes me into April.  If I play it right and talk to the right people, I might be able to close it off before the new financial year, keep the books tidy.

gubble

Garden Leave is wonderful - I jumped for joy when it happened to me. I didn't even mind being escorted from the premises by security.

I've been in the position whereby I was on three months notice but wanted to shorten that by two. My employer at the time refused to reduce it. Spoke to new employer who said not to worry we've had this before, just give them a leaving date - there's not much they can do. In most jobs there's not really much they can do other than giving you a bad reference or reclaiming any monies paid up front.

MrBump

gubble said:

Garden Leave is wonderful - I jumped for joy when it happened to me. I didn't even mind being escorted from the premises by security.

I've been in the position whereby I was on three months notice but wanted to shorten that by two. My employer at the time refused to reduce it. Spoke to new employer who said not to worry we've had this before, just give them a leaving date - there's not much they can do. In most jobs there's not really much they can do other than giving you a bad reference or reclaiming any monies paid up front.

Hmm.. not sure I want to leave on bad terms.  It's a global bank I work for.

gubble

MrBump said:

gubble said:

Garden Leave is wonderful - I jumped for joy when it happened to me. I didn't even mind being escorted from the premises by security.

I've been in the position whereby I was on three months notice but wanted to shorten that by two. My employer at the time refused to reduce it. Spoke to new employer who said not to worry we've had this before, just give them a leaving date - there's not much they can do. In most jobs there's not really much they can do other than giving you a bad reference or reclaiming any monies paid up front.

Hmm.. not sure I want to leave on bad terms.  It's a global bank I work for.

That's fair enough - I did think I should have also stated this entirely depends on who you currently work.......

fretmeister

MrBump said:

gubble said:

Garden Leave is wonderful - I jumped for joy when it happened to me. I didn't even mind being escorted from the premises by security.

I've been in the position whereby I was on three months notice but wanted to shorten that by two. My employer at the time refused to reduce it. Spoke to new employer who said not to worry we've had this before, just give them a leaving date - there's not much they can do. In most jobs there's not really much they can do other than giving you a bad reference or reclaiming any monies paid up front.

Hmm.. not sure I want to leave on bad terms.  It's a global bank I work for.

My bro is a trader - he tells me that almost everyone leaves on bad terms! And then when their numbers are better elsewhere they are welcomed back with open arms.

A strange environment indeed.

MrBump

 I'm nothing so grand as that, just a lowly IT manager.

thermionic

I've been made redundant twice. First time they gave me a cheque for my leave period pay and gave me 15 minutes to leave the site. The following week one of the directors fed a story to the press about how much profit the company was making, which they printed without investigating. I contacted the "journalist" to inform him that they'd made 30 people redundant last week, 50 others six months ago and that there were plans for more. The revised story appeared in the same paper a few days later, and a colleague told me the director in question had been given a severe bollocking and banned from ever speaking to the media!

Second time round I was desperate for gardening leave because I had a 95-mile round trip commute and I could really have done with saving the money I was spending on petrol. The bastards refused and even gave me a new project to complete with the deadline 2 days before my last day.

scrumhalf

I was on three months' notice when I quit the last proper job I had.

I found that spending a month of it in Peru helped the time pass.

57Deluxe

/\ deepest darkest Peru?

wibble

thermionic said:

I've been made redundant twice. First time they gave me a cheque for my leave period pay and gave me 15 minutes to leave the site. The following week one of the directors fed a story to the press about how much profit the company was making, which they printed without investigating. I contacted the "journalist" to inform him that they'd made 30 people redundant last week, 50 others six months ago and that there were plans for more. The revised story appeared in the same paper a few days later, and a colleague told me the director in question had been given a severe bollocking and banned from ever speaking to the media!

Second time round I was desperate for gardening leave because I had a 95-mile round trip commute and I could really have done with saving the money I was spending on petrol. The bastards refused and even gave me a new project to complete with the deadline 2 days before my last day.

I sincerely hope you didn't hit the deadline. If that was me, zero fucks would have been given on that project!

Dominic

Hate the vile Americanisation of all that being " escorted by security " from the premises ..........understandable if you work for the intelligence services but like what .............you're gonna leave a steaming turd on the floor in reception ?

Hoof

I'm on 3 months notice of sorts myself. We were told two weeks ago that our store is closing but nobody's notice period will begin until the last day of trade which is the 31st March. We have to go through a 45 day consultation period for the legal formalities but closure is at least 99% assured. It's weird, everyone just hanging around waiting for their redundancy pay.

Oh well, I've been getting itchy feet for a year or so now. Decision made. At least I'll be leaving with a few quid so I can afford to retrain for something else.

MrBump

Dominic said:

you're gonna leave a steaming turd on the floor in reception ?

... tempting...

p90fool

I was made redundant with two days notice once, the last day being my birthday.
When I went in the following day to pick up my personal tools (which they'd put on sale!) the director asked me if I'd had a nice birthday...

That was the third redundancy in nine years, and people ask me how I can possibly be happy stacking shelves in Tesco.
Easy, it's actually up to me how long I stay there, not on the whim of someone else.