How to Leave your Job Amicably, and get Great References!
Los Angeles Internet Marketing •
September 12th, 2007
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o I’d been quietly looking for a new job. I’ve been unhappy with the business vision of my Companies management for a while… and was looking around for a new position. So I finally found a phenomenal opportunity for myself.
My dream has been to quit the company, and leave them hanging in the dust for someone to fulfill my responsibilities. They do this to employees they don’t like, they take advantage of the California “at-will” employee contract - pretty meanly. A couple of my colleagues that ran on the bad side of management got the “bye bye don’t come back tomorrow” message. To me, that is very disrespectful, and I’d been dreaming of doing the same thing back to them.
Fortunately, one of my close friends convinced me to be mature and responsible about it. He has hired and fired many people, and feels that although the employer has a right to fire an employee without sufficient notice, the employee should have the etiquette to give a two week notice. (Whatever, he’s a very special guy, been on both sides of the fence - employee and employer, poor and well-off) So I took his advice.
Instead of resigning immediately, I researched proper resignation letter formats. I have some things against my employer, and if I’m going to be nice, I’ll take it all the way - and let someone else do the talking for “how much I enjoyed the time at the company”. I found a proper resignation letter template and another. I literally took the template and pasted in my details…
Difference in response? Phenomenal! The chairman of the board offered me that if I don’t like my new job, I could come back - even if it’s in 6 months! Plus he told me that he would have had me at double my current income by 2008 (Uhhuh! could you have told me that like a bit earlier???).
So, even though the company “deserves” to get screwed, I got so much out of being the nice guy. I am sure that if someone calls them in the future that my boss will give a great review! (Add it to the list of past employers!)
Lesson learnt: No matter how much someone deserves to get screwed - don’t be the guy that does the screwing!
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P.S. yeah, I tagged this with “menthclichkeit”, which means “being considerate” in “Jew Language” (a.k.a. Yiddish)
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