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I posted on here a few weeks ago under a different username, I had an interview the week before last and I have just received a call to say I've been offered the job 
My next query is, has anyone ever handed in their notice whilst their manager is on holiday? They are about to go on annual leave for 3 weeks, I wont be able to hand it in until I have had my new contract through which I believe will coincide with the annual leave. I have quite a limited timespan as to when I can hand my notice in, as I am going away in just over a month myself, so will likely need to work my 1 month notice and finish up before 12th Sept. Is an email to HR with my manager in copy suitable? I know they will check their emails whilst away so I feel really bad, even though they are half the reason I have looked elsewhere.
My next query is, has anyone ever handed in their notice whilst their manager is on holiday? They are about to go on annual leave for 3 weeks, I wont be able to hand it in until I have had my new contract through which I believe will coincide with the annual leave. I have quite a limited timespan as to when I can hand my notice in, as I am going away in just over a month myself, so will likely need to work my 1 month notice and finish up before 12th Sept. Is an email to HR with my manager in copy suitable? I know they will check their emails whilst away so I feel really bad, even though they are half the reason I have looked elsewhere.
You are giving notice to the company not to them personally so if they are away, HR and Cc to manager will have to suffice. Please see my post #931 on previous page, bit in bold.I posted on here a few weeks ago under a different username, I had an interview the week before last and I have just received a call to say I've been offered the job
My next query is, has anyone ever handed in their notice whilst their manager is on holiday? They are about to go on annual leave for 3 weeks, I wont be able to hand it in until I have had my new contract through which I believe will coincide with the annual leave. I have quite a limited timespan as to when I can hand my notice in, as I am going away in just over a month myself, so will likely need to work my 1 month notice and finish up before 12th Sept. Is an email to HR with my manager in copy suitable? I know they will check their emails whilst away so I feel really bad, even though they are half the reason I have looked elsewhere.
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Yay, congratulations! I wouldn't worry about handing it in while they are away. If you don't have a good relationship you don't owe them an in person resignationI posted on here a few weeks ago under a different username, I had an interview the week before last and I have just received a call to say I've been offered the job
My next query is, has anyone ever handed in their notice whilst their manager is on holiday? They are about to go on annual leave for 3 weeks, I wont be able to hand it in until I have had my new contract through which I believe will coincide with the annual leave. I have quite a limited timespan as to when I can hand my notice in, as I am going away in just over a month myself, so will likely need to work my 1 month notice and finish up before 12th Sept. Is an email to HR with my manager in copy suitable? I know they will check their emails whilst away so I feel really bad, even though they are half the reason I have looked elsewhere.
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Thank you, Very true!!You are giving notice to the company not to them personally so if they are away, HR and Cc to manager will have to suffice. Please see my post #931 on previous page, bit in bold.
Thank you!!
It's awkward because we are a small team, and I think they are oblivious to how rubbish they make the working environment for everyone else. My manager actually thinks we have a good relationship
I guess if I do hand it in whilst they are away, I will only have about 9 days of work with them until I finish.Onwards to better things. Lock your gaze onto the future. Where you are now is history.Thank you, Very true!!
Thank you!!
It's awkward because we are a small team, and I think they are oblivious to how rubbish they make the working environment for everyone else. My manager actually thinks we have a good relationship
I handed mine in when my manager was away. I just went to the manager above that instead. It felt quite satisfying as my manager was the reason I was leaving the first place so knowing he’d get a text whilst on his fancy holiday in the Maldives and my departure would cause him a load of extra work gave me a final middle finger to him 
Congrats! I resigned from my last role when my manager was away, spoke to their superior instead. It was great as I was able to manage the narrative better than would have been possible with my manager. Email to HR should suffice, keep it simple.I posted on here a few weeks ago under a different username, I had an interview the week before last and I have just received a call to say I've been offered the job
My next query is, has anyone ever handed in their notice whilst their manager is on holiday? They are about to go on annual leave for 3 weeks, I wont be able to hand it in until I have had my new contract through which I believe will coincide with the annual leave. I have quite a limited timespan as to when I can hand my notice in, as I am going away in just over a month myself, so will likely need to work my 1 month notice and finish up before 12th Sept. Is an email to HR with my manager in copy suitable? I know they will check their emails whilst away so I feel really bad, even though they are half the reason I have looked elsewhere.
ETA: set out your expectations clearly about your finish date, any accrued leave you want to take etc.
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Same here, same here. The only motivation I have is that I need to be able to afford to live
I used to be a driven, productive and conscientious worker, now I just don't care, in a sea of people who also don't care.I am watching Loose Women. I am WAH but having my lunch*. The next item is on Quiet Quitters. Those people who are still employed but are doing the minimum. That is now me. I meet my targets but all the unappreciated extras and angst over trivia has now gone. I don’t want flowery words, or progression, I just want to do my job competently but as quickly as possible and not above and beyond. And not get involved in any other tit, extra projects, office politics, collections, social gatherings. I proclaim it out loud. I am a Quiet Quitter. I could not care less. I am over it all.
*It will be a long lunch.
*It will be a long lunch.
This is me also. I have expended far too much mental energy over the past 10 years trying to achieve, show willinging, be competent, pull my weight, train, go the extra mile. However I have seen slackers and incompetent people being protected and given so many chances, yet when I have made small error I get hauled over the coals for it. This past year I have decided to just do the job well, to the contracted hours, be polite but quiet, keep my head down and leave for the day knowing I did my fair share. No longer will I go the extra mile. I don't want the agro of being a manager (I don't want the stress), so there's no real non-management progression for me, so I feel trapped. I know many managers who are stressed to heck, and I just know it would destroy me.
Keep that phrase in your head. Say it loud and proud in you head - I am a Quiet Quitter.
It is a lot to do with motivation. Once you have reached a dead end in work, and you will not progress/don’t want to progress you lose the will to work. Not all people. You can of course move somewhere else but the reality it will be the same old tit but perhaps the terms and conditions will be not as good. I thing the best thing is to Quiet Quit and do stuff outside of work that engages and interests you. And leave the worry to those who are paid to worry.
I agree, I used to make a huge amount of effort at work, then you see that companies will just sack you/make you redundant anyway, there is no point making more effort than you need to
Loyalty is a two way street. The working world has changed so much. People that worked always were numbers but it’s worse now. Some jobs you can’t mentally tune out (front line services etc) but a lot you can. My job is mundane. I am now embracing that fact.
Agreed, where I work we are (almost all) on zero hours contracts, and management get annoyed when people take days off/leave at the last minute. What can you expect if we can be given no work one day to the next
I like this phrase, thank you. In my field (back office admin and scheduling) there's not really a greener grass unless you progress to be management. I've got family and friends who are miserable as managers because of inept team members, drama llamas, vexatious complainers etc etc. I've seen the managers' stress levels and late night email checking etc. My husband is one of those, and I just can't imagine both of us being managers and bringing double the stress home. I just know in terms of my mental health that management is not for me. Because of that decision, I've hit the progresson ceiling for non-management and intend to be Quiet Quitter, as you say. I still do my job well but I am working hard on mentality not to get stressed. It's quite hard unpicking a childhood of being a goody two shoes teacher's pet etc. I cringe at myself when I think back, but 10 years in the world of work has made me realise that extra effort rarely pays off. I will do a good job, and enjoy my free time as well. It's just hard when we live in a Boss Babe Hustle culture where you have to Achieve Achieve Achieve.
I am also a quiet quitter. Problem is my boss is all " what do we do to get you to my role in the next few years", "what are your goals etc". I just want to say to him " leave me alone to get on with my work, I do it well and you couldn't make me want your job with the added pressure and stress plus working weekends for all the tea in China" but that's frowned upon . So I have to pretend I always want more meanwhile I'm so demotivated there.
. So I have to pretend I always want more meanwhile I'm so demotivated there.We had someone in my work who just used to say I don’t want to be developed, I am perfectly happy doing the role I am in. I am now going to say that. She was a very educated person but liked a simple life. She and her husband hit 50 and both retired, I know him too. They lived simply and had an early finish in mind. They weren’t at all dull, they used to socialise and take trips a lot, but weren’t at all interested in work or things. It really was a means to an end. They had it all sorted in their head. Their real life was outside work.I think the lockdowns have changed a lot of peoples perceptions of work. Chasing money to buy stuff you don’t need. Can’t put a price on peace of mind. My bills are covered, I go on nice holidays, I am slightly worried about gas price rises. But duck worrying about work.I am also a quiet quitter. Problem is my boss is all " what do we do to get you to my role in the next few years", "what are your goals etc". I just want to say to him " leave me alone to get on with my work, I do it well and you couldn't make me want your job with the added pressure and stress plus working weekends for all the tea in China" but that's frowned upon
Another Quiet Quitter here! I like that this is a thing.
I am not a career-orientated person at all, yet there seems to be a stigma around not being so. In the words of Peter from Office Space: It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. And it’s exhausting trying to look like you do. I’m in it for the money, not fulfilment or growth or whatever other buzzwords are being tossed around.
This reminds me - this internet-famous tale is one of the best things I’ve ever read, and my dream: https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
I am not a career-orientated person at all, yet there seems to be a stigma around not being so. In the words of Peter from Office Space: It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. And it’s exhausting trying to look like you do. I’m in it for the money, not fulfilment or growth or whatever other buzzwords are being tossed around.
This reminds me - this internet-famous tale is one of the best things I’ve ever read, and my dream: https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
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