I like my coworkers and stuff so I’d give them notice. Probably a little more than 2 weeks so I can help them out with everything
I see – you know better than most people what they actually want, as opposed to what they think they want. That’s an important distinction to make, and consider the record corrected. It’s also an impressive skill and can imagine how much money you make by putting this unique talent to use.
Well, I work for a charity that gives free advice (legal, housing, benefits etc) to people on low income. So I probably would give the minimum notice but then maybe go back and work a couple of days a week on a voluntary basis - just to add some structure to my week.
I worked there anyway on a voluntary basis before they started paying me so I’ve already worked there for free. So I’d just be going back to doing that again. Most of the people who work there are volunteers. And there are people there who are in the situation outlined in the OP ie they are rich enough not to need to work (and don’t actually have a paid main job) but give their time anyway because they enjoy it and it makes them feel worthwhile. I’m lucky enough to be doing a job that I was doing for free anyway.
You’d probably want to do something with your time just so that the days don’t just merge into one long drunken haze.
Presumably, a lot, but only for a short time since nobody with money in the bank would possible go on working.
I think I would stay at work and push the disciplinary system to the absolute limits. If fired, I would sue for wrongful termination and refuse to accept any remedy except reinstatement. Then I would start all over again.
I’m a casual employee for a company that doesn’t give two shits about its workers as we all operate from home: most of us haven’t even met our bosses or supervisors as we’re scattered all around Australia. They do shit like cut hours without notice, so from one week to the next nobody knows just how many hours they will be given. If ‘their’ computer system goes down, we have to individually challenge our payslips for lost time…of course if the problem is at our end, there’s no recompense made at all.
A couple of years ago I woman I got along really well with had to take extended time off due to illness. Not one person from the company contacted her to enquire as to her wellbeing…so she just decided not to come back to work at all. Again, she could have been dead for all the company knew.
So do I give my employers 2 week’s notice? Fuck no.
With most of the jobs I’ve had, I wouldn’t even bother to clean out my desk!
First off, I’d be one hundred percent cash-or-check-in-my-hand sure I was getting the winning money. Second, yes, I’d give my two-weeks notice. I like my job, my company, and my co-workers.
Not sure if I’d go back to work in some other capacity. Maybe I’d buy my own little business and dabble at management. Otherwise I suspect I’d be bored after a while.
Depends on the timing. I’d finish the release cycle, which could be a few months. I’m not going to screw my coworkers over.
“Hi, I’m calling from Paris. I won’t be coming in to work … anymore.” 
Hell no. My employer is famous for firing anyone that turns in 2 weeks notice… “we won’t be needing you for those two weeks anyway”.
I would come into work about an hour early, box up my stuff from my desk, and when my manager came in, tell him I was quitting. And that would be that.
I give 2 weeks notice and will help out a bit longer and to bridge the gap, but I am also going immediately to part time. But I really like my job and I’m friends with too many people that would have to handle the gap I would be leaving.
I call them and tell them I died.
That’s pretty much what I’m doing ALREADY! $100million…I would like to think I would at least call my boss to say I wasn’t coming in tomorrow/ever, but I may be to deep into the hookers and blow to remember.
I would probably give my two weeks, but get fired within a day for acting like Peter in Office Space.
I’m surprised how many Dopers here love their jobs and would keep working a while or indefinitely even with a hundred mil in the bank. That’s great to hear. But I’m surprised.
That’s perfectly fine. Out of sheer curiosity, what is your job/career?
Great to hear!? That makes me sad. For a variety of reasons. Most of which probably revolve around the fact that I can’t stand having to have a job, even one as easy as the one I have now.
Surprised? Yes, I agree. I am too. Surprised to find out people have jobs that they like SOOOOOOOOO much that they would get up everyday and still go to it even if they didn’t have to. Where do i find a job like that?
To me, my personal time means more to me than anything, even if I’m just sitting on the couch and staring at the wall. If that’s what i felt like doing, that’s what I want to do.
Now, being forced to come to work and stare at the wall all day and getting paid to do it is only awesome when I feel like getting up and going to work TO stare at the wall all day. Which usually I don’t. Therefore, even tho I get paid to do the same thing at work that I sometimes do at home, i still feel raped by the fact that I HAVE to do it just for money.
Every time I get a job I hate, just for the money, I usually try to find an exit.
Every time I get a job doing something i like, I very quickly begin to hate/resent said thing because I am forced to do it every day just to make money. This in turn ruins any passion for whatever thing it was I used to like and makes my life very very boring. Then I usually try to find an exit.
So I’ve discovered that I need to find a job doing something I don’t mind. I come in do something I don’t mind, get paid, and live in a perpetual state of meh just to make money.
$100mil and never having to work again would mean I could finally get out of meh and pursue things I like, liked, or might like, again. And do it right instead of on a hobbyists shoe string budget. And only when I felt like it.
My exact actions would depend on who I’m working for and with at the time. My previous manager would have gotten reasonable notice and an effort (probably unsuccessful, but sincere) to train someone to take up the load. That’s because I like her and because she went out of her way to keep the corporate bullshit off my back for years. The current guy, not so much. He’d get a contractually stipulated two weeks, during which he’d get nothing but a basilisk stare any time he told me to do something I didn’t feel like doing. I’d give a replacement a few pointers, the first of which would be that they should follow me out if they could.
Count me among those who would stay. I’m a total geek about my field, and my work gives me experiences that money cannot buy. I love being on the inside, seeing the decisions get made (and, increasingly, being a part of those decisions.) I’m not necessarily in my dream position, but the only way to get to that dream position is to work my way up.
I also know that I don’t enjoy large amounts of unstructured time, and for whatever reason I’m better at structuring my own time in an organizational setting. I also want to try to minimize changes in my family. We will want to keep things steady and as normal as possible while we adjust to our new circumstances.
I actually learned recently that one of my colleagues won a major amount of cash some years ago. He’s still there. I think many of us would do the same. It’s a career that takes a certain amount of effort to get in to, and that provides a lot of intangible benefits.