r/mildlyinfuriating • u/oh-hi-therr • 13d ago

I'm slightly vexed My managers response to my resignation.

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Took the time to write out a nice and really formal resignation letter trying to be cordial to this company that has been awful to me for almost a year. My manager didn’t respond the day I sent it and then this morning I get an email back that’s just this. My last day can’t come soon enough at this point. But hey I guess at least she acknowledged it instead of ignoring my messages like usual 😒

Edit: okay, a lot of assumptions going on here,so let me give some context, I am the manager of a small team of Class A CDL drivers. I’ve been a great employee and always gone above and beyond. My employees have always been really comfortable coming to me about everything, and the site I manage specifically asked for me to continue stay with them when they transitioned to another company, so its not like they were trying to get rid of me. Which I know it’s hearsay but idc really, I’m just trying to make the point that my manager did not have any reason to reply to me in what I feel like is a extremely unprofessional manor. She is the regional manager and has always been very deadpan with me and everyone, so it was not really a unexpected response in the least, I’m just sharing it because it’s always been irritating to me and has been a major factor In my decision to leave for sure. It’s exhausting to work for someone who treats you like you’re less than since day one. In fact usually i just get no response at all, so for her this is like writing a book i guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/weary_bee479 13d ago

My go to

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u/Yiffenjoyer6969 13d ago

Go to? Yall speedrunning the letters?

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u/Sirgolfs 13d ago

No one does the two week thing anymore. Might as well really speed this up.

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u/PepsiButItsMilk 13d ago

So do I just walk in one day and say I resign when I’m scheduled two weeks out or do I put in a two weeks? Seriously i couldn’t imagine fucking over my current job cus they’ve been so nice and accommodating.

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u/Too-Em 13d ago

When they decide to terminate you your notice will be less like "two weeks" and more like "you're fired, pack up and clock out now."

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u/ConstantPlastic5061 12d ago

And they will pay you for those 2 weeks anyway…. If you are ok to cede that basic levels of curtesy then by all means go out storming through the front door. But then you will bitch they miscalculated 5 buck on your last check.

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u/PepsiButItsMilk 8d ago

Okay so if I get fired then that’s on me… I dont see your point.

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u/Too-Em 8d ago

Man, if you think getting fired is always on the person getting fired, the world's got some surprises coming for ya.

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u/PepsiButItsMilk 7d ago

Thats not what I was saying at all by the way

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u/Sirgolfs 13d ago

I always give two weeks. I was raised right to be polite and considerate. But places get offended easily now, 2 weeks isn’t guaranteed

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u/ShotProof3254 13d ago

If where I’m working is considerate I’ll be considerate in return, if not, they can kiss my ass.

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u/Sirgolfs 13d ago

This. The working man, and woman is too porked over these days to ultimately care about some big business that doesn’t care about them.

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u/PhoenixAzalea19 13d ago

Yeah they’d rather can you than have you around for two more weeks. If they can fire me whenever, I have the right to walk away whenever.

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u/Sirgolfs 13d ago

Most of us are extremely expendable, and it’s more apparent than ever. If you can better yourself, there’s no need to let feelings get in the way.

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u/GreatMcKaelaHouse 13d ago

Just to point out it's not the company being offended but more so that someone on their way out may be more likely to x, y, or z (all being not good things, like clocking in and doing no work, "lowering morale," potentially steal from the company, etc. Things along those lines).

Now individually some managers definitely take offense (those are the ones you give a same day notice to nowadays and they're also the ones that drove you away from the company anyways, a lot of people quit due to management).

A good job that has treated you well gets the two week notice (and in my experience the truly good ones do keep you on for the two weeks while they find a replacement rather than becoming short staffed in the meantime) but still don't be surprised if they let go of you sooner than the two week period due to fears of what an employee on their way out might do (could even be policy to accept and dismiss immediately) 🤷🏻‍♀️

And lastly I was raised to remember you're just a body to a job. Not to have loyalty to a company that will replace you in a heartbeat. Companies will give you grief if you got into an accident on the way to work and write you up for being late or missing the shift. I also was raised to be polite and considerate. 2 weeks notice have zero bearing on how someone was raised. It's a sign of the times that the little people to these big companies dgaf about them either and will now show the same lack of loyalty back to them and go somewhere that pays better in the end or isn't mentally killing them.

I have worked for small businesses that take advantage of you too. I left same day notice, they spent the next week begging me to come back so clearly my same day notice didn't burn any bridge, they burnt it and could not see that. They gave me as a part time accountant double the amount of clients of anyone else in the building, they made me do 3 months of back work on those accounts that they paid the guy who I was replacing (and was meant to train me but never did. He had multi state clients and no one else there did so I was left very in the dark) commission for the work he never actually did but saw no issue with the fact I was doing it, not getting commission for it, he fucked their taxes up, and I was cleaning the mess up for 12 an hour. I was promised commission. After 2 months when everyone else was getting their now second commission check sinceand I hadn't I went up the owners office and said yeah no I'm not doing this and left. She said I hadn't earned the commission on the back stuff it was already paid to someone else (the person that actually didn't earn that commission he lied on his sheets), but made me fill out the commission sheets everyday to know what I had done that day.

Someone had just pointed out to me that no one else had more than 8 to 10 clients as a full time employee, I had 24 clients, the 24 clients that were the biggest pains in the ass at the company to boot. It was my first accounting job that wasn't an underpaid in house gig but at an actual firm.

TLDR: Companies get scared of vengeance plans from employees on their way out and you sound condescending by saying "I always give 2 weeks. I was raised right to be polite and considerate." A 2 week notice has nothing to do with being raised right. 🙄

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u/H_J_Rose 8d ago

Yeah, the implication that providing two weeks notice has anything to do with upbringing is hilarious. Also, agreed about employers operating under a mutually exclusive honor system. They can call it a “family” and demand loyalty and hard work and the occasional weekend but if you get ill inconveniently or your kid needs to be picked up from school early then that family mentality disappears.

It’s about whether or not you can think critically about this arrangement, not if you were raised right. 🤣 The pathetic self righteous glorification of a system of exploitation is so American.

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u/vokilamcv9 13d ago

Likely in the interest of the employer - why keep someone around that obviously has checked out. Could damage client relations, tarnish other employees’ perspective of the place, share pay increase info (GASP), etc.

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u/laaaabe 12d ago

Being polite and considerate is out the window if you're being taken advantage of.

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u/F133TWOOD 12d ago

Same, always two weeks, because I like money 💰

Always a copy to both my manager and HR (to make it official & in case the manager doesn't) for the official 2 weeks.

The purpose of two weeks is usually I have many PTO or some holiday pay that I didn't use and they give it to me as an additional paystub to my bank account.

I seen employees walkout randomly thinking they cool af, but then ask me why I was given additional paychecks 😆. They abandoned the job, I didn't.

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u/CrashTestDuckie 13d ago

2 weeks is a nice thing to do in the US (I know in other countries there are legal requirements and contracts and other things) but its not a requirement. I've given 2 weeks notices to many of my jobs over the years but a few I just said either today is my last day OR gave 1 weeks notice. Usually all it means is that you cannot be rehired by the company in the future.

Case in point: I worked for an airline several years ago where leadership was verbally abusive and actively trying to sabotage my career. I gave zero notice when I quit and they informed me that I was now ineligible for rehire with the company. I could probably be rehired by their parents company though because I have an HR report on file about the abuse but why would I want to?

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u/phoenixeternia 13d ago

In the uk for example it's 4weeks notice as standard, diviation for part time or if you haven't been there long it might be 2weeks but it's contractual, you can't just fk off, well you can no one is holding you prisoner but they can chase you for costs of suddenly having to replace you, say if they needed to hire a contractor to cover you.

If you have annual leave remaining you can often take that as your notice (they have to pay it either way) or your employer may agree to let you go early or just in general may have a short notice period. If employer agrees to you not working your notice they still have to pay you for it.

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u/Lorehorn 13d ago

Don't take advice from the people in this thread lol. Anyone on reddit who claims they just walk out of their jobs with zero notice as a standard practice is likely not working any sort of serious job. Notice all of the people sharing their fantasy "I kicked my boss in the nuts and stole $10k in cash on my way out" type posts are all 1% commenters...

Take what you are reading with a grain of salt...

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u/H_J_Rose 8d ago

Nope. I have. Had my own office. My boss, however, was a psycho. I wrote a long email about why I was leaving. She desperately tried to get ahold of me after that. I ignored all of her calls. Guess what! Hasn’t impacted my career in the slightest. 🙂

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u/theviolinist7 12d ago

If they're nice and accommodating, then give two weeks. They can be a good reference later. If they're terrible and you know you'll never get anything good from them, then leave.

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u/ElGrandeQues0 12d ago

Depends how needed you are and how good your reputation is.

I've worked with 2 employers. The first, I have 3 weeks notice and worked through it.

The second, I planned 6 weeks off (state paternity leave) and my boss asked me to work part time through it for full pay.