Working your notice Period

What comes first is you and your Family.
If they are OK they will let you go.
They will fill the vacancy.
Good luck, (y)
 
Will your new employer hold your job for 1 week to allow you to work your notice? If so work your notice period and leave with your head held high.
If not speak to your current employer and thank him for the opportunity he gave you but due to comments made by your line manager you feel he has made your position untenable and you will be leaving with immediate effect.
You are working to live not the other way round.

I am someone who has only had 2 jobs ( Army for 12 years and my current company for 25 years) but feel sometimes employees show more loyalty then their employers.
 
Lightweight said:
Will your new employer hold your job for 1 week to allow you to work your notice? If so work your notice period and leave with your head held high.
If not speak to your current employer and thank him for the opportunity he gave you but due to comments made by your current line manager you feel he has made your current position untenable and you will be leaving with immediate effect.
You are working to live not the other way round.

I am someone who has only had 2 jobs ( Army for 12 years and my current company for 25 years) but feel sometimes employees show more loyalty then their employers.
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Yes they will allow it but I’m just really annoyed by the pettiness of the comments but as Gaz said i suppose that type of chat is a regular occurrence. The thing that annoys me about is I wouldn’t make comments like that personally. As you say we go to work to live.
 
Corco65 said:
Go in and have an honest conversation with the person who you heard saying it and anyone else who's important there and explain you understand how they might feel disappointed that you are leaving and you are grateful for the opportunity to work there.

However you have a young family and an opportunity has a risen paying much more money and you have to put your family first and you wish to them all the best.
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This.

I can understand why you'd be annoyed mate but rather than not face it, personally I'd face it head on in a polite manner.

Sounds like it's them that should be feeling **** rather than you.
 
I work as a Resourcing Manager for a Tier 1 Construction company and have been in recruitment / internal roles for the last 6 years

You do not have to work a notice period

The only thing you are surrendering is that they have to pay you, so if you leave before the notice period is over you loose the entitlement to that pay

They will not take you to court for a weeks worth of work

If you have been there a month I seriously doubt they will care and will get over it very quickly

My advice is you do what is best for you and sets you up best for your new company
 
If it was me I would just work the week and do the bare minimum.
Some people take their work too seriously and let it consume their life, and then they take things like people leaving too personally.
I wouldn’t let the comments bother me as after a week i don’t have to deal with these people again.
 
Definitely don’t worry about comments mate. They’re just the ones you’ve heard. People in offices talk about each other all the time and it won’t always be positive. I know you’re still fairly young but as you get more experience you’ll eventually start to see it as water off a Duck’s back. These people aren’t your friends, they’re just folk you have to share office space with to get paid.
 
Don’t think I’ve ever seen someone leave a company without someone bitching “after all we’ve done for him”

Hold your head high, do the week, as long as the new job will wait and forget them the minute you walk out of the door.
 
A week's notice is nothing. Should be easy to get through even if everyone is calling you names all day 😁 Just see it through and move on. That's if the new employer will wait a week for you, which you'd think they would if they're realistic about things. If they won't just go straight away. You need to put yourself first + sounds like your current employer, with the sarcastic comments, aren't worth showing much consideration to.
 
If your line manager is that bad it's a good thing you are leaving.
If it was me I would go in with a smile on my face and work the weeks notice.
After every stupid remark I would say to myself "and that's why I'm getting a better job somewhere else"
The week will fly by and I think I would quite enjoy it.
But that's me. You must do what is best for you.
Congratulations by the way and best of luck in your new job.
 
Smoginexile said:
If your line manager is that bad it's a good thing you are leaving.
If it was me I would go in with a smile on my face and work the weeks notice.
After every stupid remark I would say to myself "and that's why I'm getting a better job somewhere else"
The week will fly by and I think I would quite enjoy it.
But that's me. You must do what is best for you.
Congratulations by the way and best of luck in your new job.
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Cheers mate and thanks everyone for the advice. Decided I’m just gonna do the weeks notice with my head held high like people have mentioned. It will go quick
 
B21 - If you have only been there a few weeks you don't have a contract - there is usually a probationary period of 3 months and then your contract kicks in.

All this "stay and do my job" from posters is not very relevent when you are brand new and needed training so I assume you were not ready to do the job when you started say 3 weeks ago.

I hope you didn't give up a job to go there.

When I was young I left a blue chip employer to go and work for a small business - the owners who I never met before starting were very strange but it was their business and they did what they liked. I was bored at my old big employer and very controlled, so I niavely thought the small employer would be more interesting and I could make a difference. I remember after two months at the small business thinking what I have done. I learnt a few lessons the hard way. Another small business I went to, I felt I was badly bullied early on (told to go and hang myself) and just left - I didn't actually feel safe there. I think I am quite easy going but sometimes you just have to look after number 1.
 
One week notice is nothing in the scheme of things, especially if they're not standing in your way taking on the new job. I know of people having to work up to 3 months notice, no negotiation, which must be draining. Leave them thinking they've missed out on a good employee by smashing it this week.
 
I would just work the notice _ the comments are likely made in frustration in their part - they’ve interviewed people chosen on and that one you is now leaving so they have to go through the whole thing again.

let me ask you this - what if after a short time there they had given you your notice - you’d be ***ed off right?

they helped you out when things were bad so just work the notice because as others say you never know when your paths may cross again.
I don’t follow the phone in sick nonsense they are already peed off with you imagine if you now phone in sick what they will be saying about you.
 
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