How to resign given the situation? [duplicate]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I've been offered a job at a better company with a much higher salary. I'll be signing the employment agreement sometime this week.

Anyways, if you've read my whole slew of other posts about my current workplace then I think resigning without drama is a key thing here.

After all the comments and uncomfortable conversations I'm not on the best of terms with my manager and HR.

The CEO of the company is my former manager (he got promoted during my time here) and he is actually the main head of the office but he's not in everyday. HR and my other manager are both in the office everyday but they aren't exactly my boss or 'in charge' if you know what I mean. It's a small office with just 12 people here.

I was thinking of sending out a respectful resignation notice email to all 3 of them but I'm not sure if that's the best way to go about it. I could do it in person to just the 2 of them but the CEO may not be around that week etc.

How would you handle this? Is it better to do it in person? Send out an email then have a meeting?

Also, according to Canadian law I only have to give 2 weeks notice because I'm not at a senior level. My employment contract says that I've to give 4 weeks notice. I've run out of vacation time too. The new place needs me to start in 3 weeks. I'm sure this won't go over well with the people I'm not on good terms with.

Edits: I've done some more research and according to the law in British Columbia an employee is not required to give any notice at all if they would like to terminate their employment. I also haven't resigned my employment agreement since starting there over 2 years ago.

manpreet 2 years ago

How would you handle this? Is it better to do it in person?

The correct way is to speak in person with your current boss if at all possible, and tell her/him that you are resigning. You also need to indicate your last day. You don't need to go into a lot of details in this. From your prior posts, it doesn't sound like your resignation would be completely unexpected anyway.

Your boss will then alert whoever else needs to know about your departure (HR, his boss, etc), and eventually tell you whatever else needs to be done before your last day. Some companies want a resignation letter or email that they can keep on file, some don't. Sometimes you will have an exit interview with HR, fill out some paperwork, perform some knowledge transfer with others, whip up some additional documentation, etc. Your boss (and potentially HR) will guide you in all of that.

In spite of your bad experiences, now is not the time to be less than professional.

If you still haven't run into your CEO (or others that you would like to know you are leaving), you could send out a "Goodbye" email on your last day.

Something along the lines of "As many of you know, today is my last day... I learned a lot here... I enjoyed working with you... I wish you all good luck and much success."

When I send such an email, I always include my personal contact information, so that people can continue to get in touch with me. You may not want to do that with everyone, since it appears you didn't get along with all of them, but perhaps there are one or two.