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I tried to give notice at AOL once. HR rejected the letter due to some expletives, and asked for a revised version. I then submitted a 1-sentence notice. Lesso
by paulbjensen 12y ago
I tried to give notice at AOL once. HR rejected the letter due to some expletives, and asked for a revised version. I then submitted a 1-sentence notice.
Lesson learned; don't swear in notices, but also keep it simple. Even if you tried to offer them your honest view of how things were, chances are they'd get filed in a drawer and stuck away.
It took a number of people handing notices day-by-day at AOL before HR clicked that something was wrong, so at that point they invited the Sales team to the NY office (the sales team hadn't been on an overseas trip before). It was a nice gesture of the company; shame that the people got food poisoning on the first night.
- thirdtruck 12y agoWhat does it even mean for them to reject a notice? Were they going to insist on paying you even after you stopped showing up, otherwise?
- a3n 12y agoThey did him a favor, and helped him not look like an ass in his file. He'll exist as data for the life of the company, it may as well be neutral data.
- thirdtruck 12y agoGood point. We hear "HR's there for the company's sake, not yours" repeated so often (with good cause), that it's easy to forget that individual actors can still act with above average altruism.
- tomjen3 12y agoI wouldn't assume they had actually considered that.
- paulbjensen 12y agoTrue. My notice wasn't accepted until the 2nd version a few days later. Because of that delay, my leaving date moved to the 2nd February, which meant that I received the company's annual bonus payment as I was still on the books in February. In some ways, you could say that swearing got me my bonus.