How should I quit my job?

**Shadows** · 24th June 2008, 23:27

What most of them said. Maintain your professionalism. However you may feel, he is your boss and you must respect that. It isn't just your current boss you may run into again either, it could be his boss, or your current counterparts. Make a cunt of yourself and none of them will ever forget you... and it won't be a favourable memory no matter how much you get off on it.

In my current job I'm working with three people (soon to be four) whom I worked with under my last employer. In my last job, people who came and went worked with, or knew personally, other people who had come and gone or were still there.

Make a cock of yourself by all means, but if you do I hope you plan to change careers and industries otherwise I guarantee you'll find yourself up shit creek later on.

The business world is very small. Not just within NZ either.

**Her_C4** · 24th June 2008, 23:32

Originally Posted by jrandom

Burn no bridges and go silently into your good night.

It's a small country.

Yes indeed - it is a lot smaller than you would believe. If it doesn't bite you now it probably will do later in some way.

As karma would have it, in 10 years time when you are applying for a different role in a different city and with a different approach to life .... you will be applying to someone that will remember your behaviour and how you handled yourself.

**munterk6** · 25th June 2008, 00:20

Always act in a professional manner...it pays dividends!!
I had a spat with a bloke I was working for who is well known in the trade Im in
as a real asshole. I was warned by friends not to work for him but I did anyway.
After a year of ups and downs(more downs really) under his dictatorship, I left and told him what I thought of him and what everyone else also thought, he fucked me around with my pay and I took him to the Employment Court.
Needless to say I won, and he had to pay compensation as well as unpaid holiday pay and wages, also HAD to give me a reference. He was fuming, I was satisfied.
I walked straight into another BETTER job, and the boss man that interviewed me said, " oooooohh, so you worked for him?? Did he fuck you around like hes fucked every other employee around?" My answer was .....Yup!!!
Nuff said.

**fLaThEaD FreD** · 25th June 2008, 06:51

A addressed envelope containing the words"I QUIT EFFECTIVE DATE XX/XX/XXXX " then he has to approach you. dont say why or tell him anymore,that will piss him off more than anything else. No bridges burnt and you have pissed him off and retained your reputation amonst your industry colleagues.

Originally Posted by Gubb

You lot have given me some things to think about. Maybe it is best to handle it quietly.

Damn it.

I knew you lot were good for something, then again, in saying that, someone will come along soon enough, tell me i'm being a pussy, and get me to shit on the bosses desk.

**CookMySock** · 25th June 2008, 07:30

nah don't be an ass, but if you feel the need to air a few issues - by all means do it. Bummer if there are other people around to hear it. oh well..

DB

**MisterD** · 25th June 2008, 10:44

Do you have an HR department? Do they do exit interviews? That's your opportunity to speak your mind in a professional manner...

**Usarka** · 25th June 2008, 10:50

Small world.

Went for a job interview in dublin. Guy saw a previous company on my CV and asked - "do you know xxxxx I'm sure he worked there we went to school together in dublin"

Ahhhh, yeah he was my boss.....

**ManDownUnder** · 25th June 2008, 11:03

Don't brun bridges, or rile someone that's good at getting their own way. They'll get you back if they get the chance.

Tender resignation, respectfully answer any questions, have them confirm what they want you to do during your remaining time, and move on. Be a good little soldier... more painful to do now - but less painful for the resrt of forever...!

**vifferman** · 25th June 2008, 11:06

When I quit one job, I wrote a very carefully worded letter to the manager, telling him all the things that were wrong with the company. Not to get it off my chest, nor to 'get back at them', but because a string of people left because things were not right, and yet not one of the gutless bums said anything.
I was polite, but pointed out that the faults in the way the company and employees were being managed, hoping that the managers would take heed before the company went down the gurgler.
All the jobs I've left, I've left on good terms, and so they've been useful referees. In fact, the things the managers at my last two jobs said were what got me my current position.
Bastids...

**phred** · 25th June 2008, 11:08

I left a job because I couldnt relate to him at all. Burned NO bridges and then 12 months later I was contracting to him. Turned out he was OK.
Acting professional got me 2 years additional work.
Worked for another guy for years and got on well. Turns out he bailed when things got a teensy bit awkward. Not seen him since.
So stay professional as you never know what comes next.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 25th June 2008, 11:15

Meh, take a shotgun and box of shells to work one day, wear a tinfoil cap and clean the gun on your desk while muttering about "they're on to me, mustn't let them catch me, they won't take me alive" that sort of thing.

guaranteed you wouldn't have to go back the next day or any other day. its a surefire winner.