When I put in notice it’s always this sequence (there may have been a previous attempt at getting them to counter offer):
me: boss, I’ll be leaving on such and such date.
boss: NOOOOOO! You have to stay a lot longer!
me: boss, the notice period I’m giving you is actually twice as long as what the contract says I have to give you.
boss: WHAT?
me: point to contract
boss: but, but, but that’s for when we fire people.
me: no, actually it’s for when either part wants to terminate without reason. I’m part one, says so in the first paragraph.
I’m one of the people who tell software developers what the software needs to be like.
Quartz, if you want to leave on better than bad terms, it’s a process. #1 - pack up all your personal shit and take it home IMMEDIATELY. #2 - send yourself all the emails/files you have on your computer that are yours. #3 - delete ALL files that are in the My Documents folder - every photo, all music, and especially all documentation you have. They gave you nothing, you leave them with nothing. #4 - do you have hard copies of docuemtnation? You have to get rid of them a day or two before quitting so they can’t figure it out and fish them from the trash. Keep the empty binders in the cube. #5 - Now, when you quit, be polite and ask if you could say goodbye to a few people.
And, SageRat, do you often go to the Chronicles of George by any chance?
I’d never heard of it. But no, my coworkers aren’t stupid, they’re just not as good at what our company does as me. The company had the idea that it was better to hire 12 entry level programmers than to hire 4 pros, which really doesn’t cut it for the kind of software they hope to make.
“So you want to do voice recognition…but all your programmers are young Java programmers… Hm…”
While I hope the best for them, I am fairly glad that I’ll be getting out of there before reality sinks in with the management and either they have to close shop or lay off 80% of everyone.
They lost my acceptance! Thank goodness I’d sent it Registered Post, so I was able to say that they had most definitely received it. I emailed them chapter and verse; I got an email back 10 mins later to say that they’d found it.
I think holding your wrists together as if handcuffed, and bravely singing the Marseillaise would be just right.
I assume you’re also capable of things like changing your computer’s default sounds, then hiding those files. A superglued toothpick fragment sealing the locked top drawer, with a raw fish inside, is probably over the top.
You ought to buy a lite-brite and put on its face a design that’s reminiscence of a cartoon character. Plug it in before you go, then see how many weeks pass before you hear on the news that a suspected bomb was found at your former workplace.