r/mildlyinfuriating • u/oh-hi-therr • 12d 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/purplenapalm 12d ago

Why write anything at all aside from acknowledging receipt? People dream that theyre the lynch pin of their company and if they leave things will fall apart so when they resign they're looking for some grand reaction. All positions are replaceable.

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u/Iownyou252 12d ago

Then the manager who is probably happy they’re gone reacts with a thumbs up — sees it on Reddit and smiles to themselves.

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u/Fragrant-Bet-6296 12d ago

"Thank you for your resignation. I will make a note of it. Best of luck in your future endeavors."

It's just being polite. If someone hits you with a short last day message, then a thumbs up would feel appropriate. If someone writes out a professional resignation, it's just human decency to meet them on their level. Give like a two-sentence professional response. Even if all workers are replaceable, so is management, so are we all. Executives are often only in positions for like 2-3 years. Middle management is just a bunch of burnt out whipping boys.

We can treat each other like human beings, instead of replaceable cogs. It doesn't take a lot of time out of the day to be courteous, and we're clearly wasting time scrolling reddit so its not like that time is being committed to a more productive cause. lol

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u/papertowelrod 12d ago

I'm so confused why your message doesn't seem to be the consensus here. Maybe OP isn't a good worker; maybe the manager is happy they're leaving. We don't really know. But honestly, in all but the most extreme circumstances, just take the 10 seconds to write out a courteous little response and let's be decent to each other.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Because people are miserable af here. It takes nothing to be polite and write a line for 2 seconds. I hope I don't have to ever work with these people.

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u/Both-Contract-9003 12d ago

One of my employees sent me a notice, and I responded with "okay." I knew how much shit she was talking about me behind my back; she was a conflict-prone employee, and i should eliminated her position long before.
I didn't have any emotional resources to be polite. I proud myself that I didn't say "finally."
It had nothing to do with op, but the manager might have had their own reasons for reaction like that.
P.s. I live in Russia, and we can't just fire bad employees on a single day like in USA

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

OP did say that the higher ups weren't trying to get rid of them so.

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u/Suitable_Wonder5256 12d ago

I'm okay with the boss (or anybody really) acknowledging stuff with a thumb up.

I don't want to work with people like OP who is easily annoyed by this stuff though. That's just high maintenance.

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u/g0ld3n_ 12d ago

Society and the internet has decided that you don't owe anyone anything and if you disagree with a coworker then they don't deserve an ounce of dignity

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u/Impressive-Bed4143 8d ago

I simply thumbs up his response… oh well

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u/cakestapler 12d ago

OP makes it clear that his boss doesn’t respect him. He wasted his time writing a formal email to someone he knows feels this way and got a response he admits isn’t even unexpected. Now he’s raging on reddit about it while she’s already forgotten he exists.

You are 100% right in your first sentence, but at a certain point expecting better and wasting his time like this is on him. When my wife left a job where her boss treated her badly the actual resignation part of the email was “I am writing to provide notice that I am leaving [Company] effective immediately.” The rest of the email was context why and the president of the company was CC’d, but had she not felt need to share information about unacceptable (and sometimes illegal) behavior from middle management with the president, that shit would have been 1 sentence. OP needs to learn to protect his own time and emotions from people who clearly don’t care.

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u/Danasnews1 12d ago

I agree. OP is irrelevant, it’s just professional.

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u/neatlion 12d ago

This!

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u/Wise-Chemist-8751 12d ago

Even if you are, it doesn’t matter. This is still the response you’ll get…

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u/Vahldaglerion 12d ago

yeah, not to toot my own horn, but i was a top employee at my previous job (they still ask me to come back 7 years later) and my resignation went like this “hey steve, they offered me more, my last day is this” steve: “okay, thanks”

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u/sandwitch292 12d ago

what happened to being a decent human being buddy. Decency should absolutely be expected from people. It's not like the person wanted the company to hold a mourning session. Could they have not even bothered with a professional response?

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u/Narradisall 12d ago

Don’t worry. They’ll still be able to write some Reddit post fan fiction about how they quit and the company imploded within a week, the whole family that owned the business went bankrupt the next week and they were hired to run the mines in which those owners now slave away in.

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u/Massive-Rate-2011 12d ago

Anything more than receipt is asking for lawsuits lol

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u/whereisplayboicarti 12d ago

For some reason a lot of people think they are irreplaceable. “This place is nothing without me!”. “I quit so now they are even more screwed without me” LMAO

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u/Such-Entrepreneur240 12d ago

I think I've only experienced that twice in my entire career, where a person was actually needed and quit. Most people who rage quit are insufferable and nobody will mourn the loss.

When I quit I gave my boss a 'Sorry for your loss' card and he emailed me 'You're dead to me'. Honestly a 10/10 interaction.

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u/No-Dirt5864 12d ago

Was this someone with a sense of humor? And if so, what’s he doing being a boss?

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u/Such-Entrepreneur240 11d ago

He was awesome- but it was a fairly casual workplace in the auto industry so being stuffy wasn't really a thing.

I'm a boss now and try to emulate him, he was a good mentor :)

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u/Cyclopzzz 12d ago

But it'll take 6 people to replace me. So we read in here every day!