Best way to submit 2 weeks notice.

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Got a new opportunity

. Any advice on giving a 2 week notice?

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cyberguypr

Short and simple always does the trick. For some reason people tend to complicate this or provide details that are totally unnecessary.

Dear $manager:

Please accept this letter as my resignation from $role at $company effective on $date. My stay at $job has been $adjective.

Let me know how I can be helpful in this transition... yadda yadda yadda.

Tons of templates out there. Submit resignation only after background check at new place clears and you have a set start date.

Repo Man

I've always started the process in person especially if I have a good relationship.

markulous

Agreed on keeping it simple. An email that is short and to the point. Anything else can be discussed in person

SpetsRepair

short and simple like everyone mentioned

That's all that is needed

Last time I quit they pulled me into a meeting and asked me why I was quitting, I told them I have another offer end of story..

Some companies might want you to stay, so play your cards right and make sure this is a job that is rehireable/leave on good terms

TechGromit

No one remembers the guy who resigned with a nice short resignation letter that is to the point. You want to be remembered when you leave. Try something like this.

I can no longer ignore the voices in my head, my psychiatrist says I'm maxed out on meditation, I should quit my job for safety of everyone in the department... (Remember to leave a list of all the employees names in the department on your desk with some names circled, others crossed out. )

My cover has been blown, I'm in the Witness protection program, if some big scary looking guys come by the office looking for me, please don't tell them anything, no matter how much they torture you. It will give me time to escape...

My cell has been activated, I now get the chance to die in glory in service of Allah.... (leave a map of Washington DC on your desk with landmarks circled)

My cult says next week is the day of the rapture, are gathering in our holy shelter to wait out the end. I'll pray for you non-believer. (followed by a good 8 to 10 pages of religious ramblings)

I want to get out next week before the paychecks start bouncing. I got a new job with another company with lots of capital and even worst computer security then you guys had.

If you boss is the oppose sex these work good.

I can't bare the torture of working beside you anymore without expressing my true feeling for you. If I had to work one more day so close to you, I don't think I could keep myself from touching your body and taking you right there in the office....

I have to leave town, my Crazy Ex-boyfriend (or girlfriend) was just been released from prison due to overcrowding, found out where I live/work and is insanely jealous, He (or she) thought there was something going on between me and my last boss, if they would have found the body, I'm sure they would have never have released him (or her) early.

mjnk77

A short and simple email. That way, there's a record of when and what you said in your notice.

jibtech

TechGromit wrote: »

No one remembers the guy who resigned with a nice short resignation letter that is to the point. You want to be remembered when you leave. Try something like this.

I can no longer ignore the voices in my head, my psychiatrist says I'm maxed out on meditation, I should quit my job for safety of everyone in the department... (Remember to leave a list of all the employees names in the department on your desk with some names circled, others crossed out. )

My cover in has been blown, I'm in the Witness protection program, if some big scary looking guys come by the office looking for me, please don't tell them anything, no matter how much the torture you. It will give me time to escape...

My cell has been activated, I now get the chance to die in glory in service of Allah.... (leave a map of Washington DC on your desk with landmarks circled)

My cult says next week is the day of the rapture, are gathering in our holy shelter to wait out the end. I'll pray for you non-believer. (followed by a good 8 to 10 pages of religious ramblings)

I want to get out next week before the paychecks start bouncing. I got a new job with another company with lots of capital and even worst computer security they you guys had.

If you boss is the oppose sex these work good.

I can't bare the torture of working beside you anymore without expressing my true feeling for you. If I had to work one more day so close to you, I don't think I could keep myself from touching your body and taking you right there in the office....

I have to leave town, my Crazy Ex-boyfriend (or girlfriend) was just been released from prison due to overcrowding, found out where I live/work and is insanely jealous, He (or she) thought there was something going on between me and my last boss, if they would have found the body, I'm sure they would have never have released him (or her) early.

You could always combine this line of thinking with the short and simple idea:

Dear $manager,

Reverend $random_name has foretold that Hale-Bopp is returning on $date, and my fellow acolytes already have their Nikes on. I am needed to fulfill the prophecy.

Sincerely,

Brother $yourname

PC509

I always type up a formal letter like others have done. But, I make sure I go in and talk with my boss when I deliver it. Tell him why, thank you for the opportunity, and just talk for a bit. Good time to ask for a letter of recommendation (if they are allowed at that company). Always leave on good terms, it'll help you out later.

Plus, if you leave after talking with them and leaving a great impression when leaving, there will be no ill feelings. Even if it was for a better position. Unless your boss is a dick, then it's all out the window. But, most are really cool when you move up. They have a career, too. They'd do the same thing. If you ever need to come back, or even if you need to call them up to ask questions about things (I keep in contact with old colleagues and ask questions based on their expertise).

Anyone can leave with a cheap letter and 2 weeks notice. The good ones leave with class.

adrenaline19

1. Watch Fight Club
2. Quit like Edward Norton
3. profit???

Blucodex

TechGromit wrote: »

No one remembers the guy who resigned with a nice short resignation letter that is to the point. You want to be remembered when you leave. Try something like this.

I can no longer ignore the voices in my head, my psychiatrist says I'm maxed out on meditation, I should quit my job for safety of everyone in the department... (Remember to leave a list of all the employees names in the department on your desk with some names circled, others crossed out. )

My cover in has been blown, I'm in the Witness protection program, if some big scary looking guys come by the office looking for me, please don't tell them anything, no matter how much the torture you. It will give me time to escape...

My cell has been activated, I now get the chance to die in glory in service of Allah.... (leave a map of Washington DC on your desk with landmarks circled)

My cult says next week is the day of the rapture, are gathering in our holy shelter to wait out the end. I'll pray for you non-believer. (followed by a good 8 to 10 pages of religious ramblings)

I want to get out next week before the paychecks start bouncing. I got a new job with another company with lots of capital and even worst computer security then you guys had.

If you boss is the oppose sex these work good.

I can't bare the torture of working beside you anymore without expressing my true feeling for you. If I had to work one more day so close to you, I don't think I could keep myself from touching your body and taking you right there in the office....

I have to leave town, my Crazy Ex-boyfriend (or girlfriend) was just been released from prison due to overcrowding, found out where I live/work and is insanely jealous, He (or she) thought there was something going on between me and my last boss, if they would have found the body, I'm sure they would have never have released him (or her) early.

This might be enough to qualify for disability. Hmmmm.....

UnixGuy

adrenaline19 wrote: »

1. Watch Fight Club
2. Quit like Edward Norton
3. profit???

We never talk about fight club.

Danielh22185

I recently went through this (been at my new job 2 months). I was at my previous for 5 years. I first asked for a 1:1 with my manager to let him know I was resigning. With that we kind of chit-chatted about the job and the opportunity / why I was leaving. NOTE: You don't have to do this but he was a good guy and I liked him as a manager so I wanted to pay the most respect I could. He then asked for a formal letter just so he could follow up with the HR side of thing for my departure. I basically followed the same format that cyberguy explained.

clarkincnet

It can't be as bad as sending this one...

Dear Boss:

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult, effective immediately. After watching my eldest son during his last birthday party, I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

I want to go to McDonald’s and think that it’s a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer’s day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn’t bother you, because you didn’t know what you didn’t know and you didn’t care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. That people will admit to their mistakes, instead of immediately placing blame on the nearest empty chair. I would like to think that one day IT would actually have a chair to sit in when all the children crowd around Papa Plant Manager’s table for tea and crumpets while watching the latest hapless contestants play the daily Blame Game. I hear the game is going into its 30th season here at work.

I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
I want to think that all my best days are in front of me. That I have a million options to choose from, and just because I am here in this particular place at this particular time, doesn’t mean that I will always be. Or I should be. Or that shouldn’t be.

You know my neighbors – the ones that live down the street? They get to miss school, sleep all day without getting in trouble, and no one wants to offend or make faces at them because you always have to apologize if you do (even if they did it first). If they don’t like the way the game is played, they can always strike out and wait until umpire makes a different call in their favor. I know my parents always tell me that “we’re not your neighbors”, but surly wouldn’t it be fun to pretend at least for a little while?

I want to think that when you die, you actually go to Disney World, and no one makes you wait in line for the rides.

I want life to be simple again. I don’t want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of useless paperwork, signatures, and sockless Sarbanes Oxley auditors. I’m tired of dealing with whining users who don’t know what they want, ask for everything but what they need, and blame you because someone at Corporate failed to ask their permission to do something to some system that you’ve never heard of before (but are responsible for and own as if it actually runs in your data center and you have control over it).

I don’t want to deal with stupid, because you know you really can’t fix stupid. Computers, programs, networks, they can all be fixed, turned off, or hit repeatedly with a sledge hammer – but stupid never really goes away.
I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So . . . (sigh) I guess this is really it. I am officially resigning from adulthood. Here’s my laptop and my VPN software, my cell phone and the phone calls at 2 am. In exchange I’ll take from you my personal phone number scrawled on the back of thousands of scraps of paper taped to every production machine in the plant. I’ll also take back the first truly restful night of sleep in ten years. I’ll take my holidays back, the last of the premature gray hair that hasn’t fallen out yet, and the true friendships I’ve cultivated from the others that share my similar fate. Finally, if it’s not too much trouble to ask, can I have my manhood back… please? That is, if the company has finished gnawing on the bone and sucking the last morsel of marrow from it.

I only thank God I haven’t lost my sense of who I am as a person, a manager, a professional, and a friend, as so many people above me and around me have. It would be more embarrassing to have to ask for that than it is to have to ask for my manhood back.
And if you want to discuss this further, you’ll have to catch me first, cause……..

……”Tag! You’re it. I quit.”