Giving my notice

Coney Island

I have a stupid question, but I have been working for the same company for 4 years and I never gave formal notice to my previous employers.
What should I do? Is it a face to face conversation with my manager followed by an email enough? Do I need to have anything signed?

Borzoi

What I would do would be write a letter of resignation, and then meet with your boss, and give him the letter and a verbal explanation.

He may or may not want to do a formal resignation interview, as to your reasons, or maybe a HR flunkie will do that.

Of course, walking in saying 'I quit' and walking out the door has a long and noble history too

koneko

I'd do the same. Do a letter and talk to your boss. See how it goes from there. A letter makes it nice and official though.

Sample resignation letters (should you need them):

http://www.graphicresources.com/resignationletter.html

http://jobsearchtech.about.com/library/weekly/aa030998-6.htm

Coney Island

Thanks, I would like to leave my current company keeping a good relationship. What should I include in the letter? The reason for leaving? or only the time frame when I will quit?

Coney Island

Koneko, this is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you very much!!!

cruiserweight

Depending on your relationship with your boss, it might not hurt to give an indication of what you are thinking about doing so that it will not be so sudden!

leeroybrown

Alternatively you could spend the afternoon producing a resignation letter in the form of a humorous limerick (or you could be really terse and try for a haiku). Not only will they know you'll want to leave but they'll be plagued by equal measures of disbelief and fear for your sanity.

On a more serious note, a simple signed letter will do fine.

Hopefully you won't have to go through the annoyance of a long exit interview.

Coney Island

Would I need to keep a copy signed of the resignation letter? I don't think so...

cruiserweight

Originally posted by Coney Island
Would I need to keep a copy signed of the resignation letter? I don't think so...

Would not hurt just in case! If there is any dispute over notice given etc it should all be in the letter and would clear it up

Stephen

Exit interviews? suck ass.

"why did you decide to leave our company?"
"because the other guy pays me lots of money"

WhiteWashMan

see thinking of resigning sticky thread above.
i used it last week

leeroybrown

Originally posted by Stephen
"why did you decide to leave our company?"

People should prepare a long stream of concience style dirge describing the mind numbing and soul destroying effects working there had on them. Learn it off by heard and as soon as the employer asks that question begin, don't stop for anyone and finish with:

"Well, I could go on all day but I've got other things to do." and just walk out.

Set this as your homepage at work for a few weeks beforehand too:
http://www.i-resign.com/uk/resigning/
(mainly for comedy value)