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Originally posted by AnotherWay83 are you kidding me? why on earth did you tell them so far in advance of your intention to quit? 2 weeks is all you "owe" them by way of advance notice. never tell your employer you intend to quit before then. it's just dumb. they were fine before you got there, they'll be fine after you're gone. don't worry abt them. let them figure out who will replace you and how to train them. you may be in a pickle now, i don't know. check the laws of your state...

You would never work for me.

You reek of poor work ethic.

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Originally posted by Lagrangian You would never work for me. You reek of poor work ethic.

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I don't think it's unfair at all to issue an advanced notice of your leaving. I dunno, maybe some other people have different experiences with the legalese of a 2-week notice, but it seems to me that if you are sufficiently good at what you do -and perhaps more pertinently have a decent relationship with your employer- you should give them time to rehire, and even avail yourself to orient your replacement.

Granted, maybe you are leaving said job because the environment is shitty, in which case this is all quite moot and you should get the hell out within 2 weeks.

But I know that I do enough advanced things at my job that it would be a nightmare to just plunk down someone new; and that's not a 'I'm so smart and valuable and blablabla' kind of thing, it's just the nature of some peoples occupation to have a complicated environment that one cannot intuit themselves to assume.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On But I know that I do enough advanced things at my job that it would be a nightmare to just plunk down someone new; and that's not a 'I'm so smart and valuable and blablabla' kind of thing, it's just the nature of some peoples occupation to have a complicated environment that one cannot intuit themselves to assume.

Same here, and I'm contemplating trying to blackmail my employer into giving me a pay rise by threatening to leave in the middle of our current busy programme if my wage demands aren't met, on the basis that it would throw a major spanner in the works to hire someone new to the company and train them up, even with the requisite month's notice period.

Advisable?

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In my estimate, it'd be remarkably foolish to hang any threat over your employer. I don't know your circumstances obviously, but in general, the power structure of most companies appends D-Type personalities (often with little other skills) in middle management; those people absolutely detest feeling as though they are being taken advantage of, such that they'd do almost anything to exert an upper-hand. It's just a foolish gamble to fuck with them so directly, but this is coming from a fairly compliant person, too.

Chances are that you would be demonstrably better off having a coincidence of expense in the middle of a busy cycle - as in, you need more money right soon because you're simply worth it and you look forward to convincing them of such, not because they would be fucked without you (however true, don't bring this up). Don't focus on your worth to them, because the numbers are quite typically more transparent to the people who shell out that expense of your relative value. Craig could offer some actual insight I believe- in fact when it comes to matters at my job, I wear a WWCD bracelet.

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The best is when upper management is D-type. FFS. Nothing better than passive aggressive penny pinching know nothings running a business they mostly just tagged along on to the top.

What do you know about running a business?

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