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Anon quits their job
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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Many years ago, a woman that worked at the same place, just didn't turn up one day. I think they (the closest thing we had to HR at the time) let this slide for a week, then called her. She just said "Oh, I didn't work to work there any more".
I don't think they pursued it any further and let it at that.
I just don't understand that mentality. You burn a bridge, when you could just send an email or something saying you quit and keep the possibility of coming back sometime open. Or if your boss actually liked you, you could have gotten a recommendation, but instead decided to make their life suck.
Just send an email saying you quit, it's really not that hard.
I thought it was weird at the time. The contracts had a notice period in, and it's not like many US states where employment is at-will. The employer is definitely required to give notice (albeit they can send you home and just pay you the notice period, which many do). So I suspect they could have gone after her for that, if they wanted to.
Likely they considered it not worth pursuing, though.
But if you're going to violate a contract anyway, might as well make dealing with that easier for your direct manager. Maybe you're unwilling to work those three months, but sending an email saying you resign at least helps your boss out. My boss put one of my coworkers on disability leave, for example, instead of firing them (he fired them when they came back after a couple months and the issue wasn't resolved).
But it all starts with actually making the most base level of effort. An email takes like 10 seconds and doesn't need to be long:
As someone that manages people, I'd be annoyed with that, but less annoyed than if someone just stopped showing up. In fact, if they were a decent worker, I might respond with something like this:
And if I really didn't like the employee:
Both are better than sending no notice at all.
Yeah, that's kind of the point
If I wanted to work there I wouldn't be quitting, especially not just dipping out
Usually people doing this aren't in that situation, being on good terms with someone usually means you don't just vanish on them
The vast majority of times this is, again, the point
You do you, but a little professionalism goes a long way. Maybe that manager moves to another org that you want to apply at, and they reject you because of how you acted the last time. Or maybe they just tell someone at the new org how you left.
Doing this has zero benefits to you, sending an email takes almost zero effort and might have some benefit for you. The rational thing is to send the email.
Good, I don't have to work with them again, win for me
Catharsis comes to mind, on top of the schadenfreude
Yeah, and thats part of why not doing it sends a point
If your workers hate working for you so much they won't even send an email then you should evaluate your management and work culture, yakno?