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It has to go both ways, though. At my last job, when I first talked to the CTO (my boss) about leaving, he asked me to think about it and talk again the next da
by rlander 8y ago
It has to go both ways, though. At my last job, when I first talked to the CTO (my boss) about leaving, he asked me to think about it and talk again the next day. The next day he postponed the meeting. Then, at the day of the meeting, he was out of the office. It had been 5 days since the first talk so I chose to escalate the matter and, in an Arrested-Development-episode kind of situation, I learned that the CEO and the CTO decided to mysteriously leave for vacation because they felt burnout.
- jiveturkey 8y agoI have to know ... did you quit? What happened next?
- john_moscow 8y agoI'm curious what would have happened, had you also taken a sick vacation then. BTW, generally, people are less likely to pull off shit like that if you motivate your resignation with some health/moving/whatever external factors. Just shift the focus way from "I don't want to work with you assholes" to "my wife got reassigned to %STATENAME%, so I guess I have to follow" or whatever sounds plausible and you're good to go.
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- komali2 8y agoAwkward when you bump into them at the local bar a couple months down the line though :P
- ghostbrainalpha 8y agoMy best quit excuse was that I had Crohn's disease. It let me step away immediately, because I didn't want to poop myself in the office. I also offered to work from home for my final two weeks, to help them train my replacement, but it had to be from home, because of the pooping issue. What's really nice is that I had a ton of options. I could even apply to have my job back, if I couldn't find remote work, in a few months if I had success with the treatment and felt more comfortable in an office environment.
- loop0 8y agoHow did you manage to leave?
- lordlimecat 8y agoI think you just leave if theyre gone two weeks. It's not like you didn't give notice.