I’m leaving my current place of work. Things happened very fast. I work on education. I applied for a role on a Monday which offered progression. Got shortlisted on a Thursday, got called into interview and landed the job on the Monday following on.
I had wanted to leave for a while. I pushed through for a long time but I hit breaking point and just needed to go. HT found out through LM this Tuesday. The whole week went by and I never got a congratulations or anything.
Decided that today I’d hand my notice in and I do hard copy and email copy. Decided to pop in and speak to the HT about this and formalise it ans as a matter of courtesy just leave on a good note sent her an email asking when she was free. Got back “super busy. Free after x time if you’re in” . I walked into the office and got “ I already know what you’re going to say anyway before you say it. I asked your LM because I needed to know things from a staffing POV.(not wanted to know if you were successful so I could wish you the best or anything) So I said “yes I just wanted to have a quick chat really that’s all and let you know considering it’s been 3 years I’ve been here” and I got “can you ask your school to push back the start date” my response was “it’s not negotiable unfortunately”
some of the slt have said they’d miss me someone else who is slt also mentioned id be hard to replace etc but. I actually would have appreciated it if the ht offered me that same reception.
AIBU for expecting a bit more than this. (Not blowing my trumpet but I know I’m good at what I do and dedicated to it.)