Right way to quit a job

[motepoc]

I don't agree with KENDAL69 becuse I have raised 5 children who I believe have the same values I have had that were given to me by my father. I think that there are many more like mine out there and they are the majority of the workers. Are there ones out there like KENDAL69 says? Yes. and you can probably tell who they are and should not have to quit. They should be let go. Since retiring, I have gone back to my previous employer three times when asked to come back, and leaving when asked to leave. If called again, I would go back again.

 

[SnowRidge]

Nope, best all around that the employee be gone right after he finishes his sentence, after all the employer has pride also, or isn't that allowed.

So you consider working for you to be a sentence. That might explain some of the attitudes you are seeing.

 

[Bird]

I have NEVER and I mean NEVER observed an employee work the same during the two weeks as they did prior to leaving, why should they.

It's called a short timers attitude, where employees figure ( as people do in prison for life ) " what's the worst they can do to me, fire me", so they slack, and bring down the entire crew. Nope, not for me I don't need it.

I can certainly understand your point, and I know that in some cases, you're right, but fortunately not all cases. When I accepted employment with the police department, I told them I had to give my current employer (U.S. Post Office) two weeks notice. I think my boss appreciated it, and I worked the last day the same as I had been for 5 years.

When I decided to retire from the police department, I sent a letter of resignation to the chief over 3 weeks before I was retiring, and I worked right through the last day. But I know a lot of officers, especially the higher ranking ones, who did little, if anything, once they announced their plans to retire. In fact, it was so common that a week before I actually retired, I had an assistant chief ask what I was doing at the office.

But if you've NEVER observed an employee who worked the same the last two weeks, then I feel sorry for you; you've been working with the wrong kind of people.

 

[LMTC]

So you consider working for you to be a sentence. That might explain some of the attitudes you are seeing.

I think you might want to re-read his post. As I read it he means after the employee finishes his sentence, i.e., the one in which he says he is quitting in two weeks.

"Sentence"-[SIZE=-1]a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language.[/SIZE]

 

[radman1]

We had 6 employees that were let go because another company was contracted for the work. They were given a months notice and 8 weeks severance pay, assistance with finding another job and retraining assistance if desired. Most had been with the company 1-4 years. On the last day one of them deleted 3 months worth of billings/transactions totaling about 3.5 million dollars. Luckily, an outside computer company was able to retrieve the deleted data. I can see why employees are immediately terminated after that episode.

 

[cp1969]

That's a somewhat different circumstance than what we're talking about...they were involuntarily let go. The discussion is about when an employee voluntarily terminates employment.

Besides, if it is a known policy that people get walked out immediately upon resigning, if they are inclined to do damage, they'll just do it the day before they resign.

 

[radman1]

That's a somewhat different circumstance than what we're talking about...they were involuntarily let go. The discussion is about when an employee voluntarily terminates employment.

Besides, if it is a known policy that people get walked out immediately upon resigning, if they are inclined to do damage, they'll just do it the day before they resign.

Agree, in my situation they were terminated. If an employee quits voluntarily, he maybe quitting because he is unhappy and wants to get even with the company before he leaves. I can see it working both ways.

 

[dmccarty]

I know of a company that prior to the late 90s would walk an employee out the door the day the employee gave notice. The person would be given two weeks pay and out they went. This was done for security and employee morale. Today the person is kept for the two weeks. The company treated employees FAR better prior to the 90's than today with better pay and benefit packages. No if ands or buts about it.

HR presidents have sent out very nice/expensive publications saying employees should be constantly updating and shopping resumes! How is the good for the company I'll never know. Benefit packages seem to incourage people to leave after 10 years of employment. The "old" company that walked you to the door wanted to keep experienced workers.

New kids out of school have watched their parents get laid off from companies they have loyally worked for for years. The kids see what that loyalty got their parents and act accordingly. Loyalty is a two way street. Its not one way. The kids will do good work but they are not going to put in the extra effort that their parents did because there is no reward. I see a different work ethic from new kids. I understand it and don't blame them one bit. This applies to the big organizations with which I'm familiar.

You need to leave in as a professional manner as possible. One thing that I have not seen mentioned is that you don't want to give you current owner anymore reason to talk junk about YOU after you leave. Be as professional as possible and move on. He may bad mouth you but don't give him anymore reason to do so than you leaving.

In your new contract make sure that it cleary states how much ownership you aquire and how that increases. Also how you would acquire full ownership or have your share bought out if you leave. And how your ownership is valued.

I knew a person who was given part ownership in a small company. Every year they received an increase in the percentage they owned in the company. Things went well for a few years and then they lost a major contract. The owner wanted the partner to leave since their was not enough business anymore. It got ugly after awhile and the person I know had to leave. Not sure how it worked out money wise. And since the company was making less I would guess they walked away with less.

Sounds like you have a good opportunity. Good luck at the new job!

Later,
Dan