Timeline for How to tell a superior I won't be able to complete a task because I am going to quit in a month
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 10:26 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @Angew Monica Cellio has made the same suggestion. | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 8:25 | comment | added | Angew is no longer proud of SO | @MartinBonner I think you should write this as an answer. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 15:07 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | As an addendum to this, when you get told "start on the new work", start by adding a whole bunch of regression tests and documentation of what the current system is. Possibly with some refactoring to simplify adding the new functionality. This is all useful work; by the time that is finished, you will probably be ready to hand in your notice, at which point they can decide whether they want you to start on a big new project or not. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | uɐɪ | "Sometimes a company responds to this by letting you go immediately, sometimes they start treating you like someone they can't trust or who they are no longer interested in helping." At least twice I have immediately become an un-person after handing in my notice. The company/managers just pretended that I didn't exist while I worked out my notice. Their loss but it was rather boring. If you end up not leaving then this behaviour can lead to a somewhat awkward situation. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 14:45 | comment | added | Peter M | Especially as the next opportunity may disappear between being let go from the old job and when you expect to take up the new one. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 14:11 | history | answered | HLGEM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |