Put my notice in - is this normal?

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Put my notice in yesterday morning by email as per company policy. Today I've been locked out of everything, (schedule, training) but have had no response from work even acknowledging my resignation! I've been working there for 10+ years and it kinda hurts that they can't even be bothered to email and let me know they've received the notice!

If you're off sick, why do you need access to the schedule and training? You won't be working your notice so it's not necessary. Agree it's crap you've had no acknowledgement though. Maybe call your boss today to discuss it?

You've worked there 10 years and it's only a week's notice? 😮

You have followed their procedures which is fine and it sounds like they also have a procedure that means you can't access information once you have resigned. That too is fine. It's is only a week and you are off sick anyway so what do you want or need access to?

Ahh so you're sick and not working your notice? Why do you need access then? I mean ideally you'd have had something acknowledging it tbh. Could you give them a call? Really the "done thing" is tell your manager then hand in the notice straight after.

Have you been communicating by email this whole time? Not communicating by phone puts them in a difficult position. Idk what your relationship is like with your manager. I’m thinking they may have thought you didn’t want to be contacted so best to just let you go. As you’re not working, stopping access to the systems seems sensible but equally gives them no means of communicating with you. Perhaps you will receive something in the post?

Some companies will, pay your notice & not require you to work it.

Were you pressured into leaving if you're sick? Has your illness caused issues with staff etc? Are you going in at all for your last week?

I disagree. She's off sick for the week of her notice so doesn't need to log in to anything work related. She knows they've seen her resignation letter because she's been locked out the system She obviously doesn't want to talk to anyone in person.

Yes I too am thinking maybe they'll send you something in the post

@RedHelenB
How? Why?

she's been there 10 years, she's off on sick, she handed in her notice in the correct way...

why don't you think she deserved to have her resignation accepted (email) & a call from her business manager explaining what's next &/or asking what they could do, if anything, to help?

how do you figure ignoring her & locking her out of Rota's etc is fair enough?

But if you're on sick you're not working your notice are you? And you don't actually require access to anything as you aren't doing anything.

@RedHelenB

why do you say 'she obviously doesn't want to talk to anyone'?

Agree with this.

Why are you accessing work systems when you are off sick? Other than to send the email with your notice? Very poor of your manager not to acknowledge your resignation, but you have no reason to need the work systems now.

I would have called my manager first to let them know, then followed up with the official email. Sending an email to resign without warning and expecting consideration back is a bit hypocritical to me.

Maybe you manager forwarded to hr to get the ball rolling, which is his priority, on a replacement which triggered the lock out and just hasnt had time to contact you yet.

Two separate issues - one it would be the right thing to do for your line manager to call to acknowledge the resignation and say thank you and goodbye. They might well have emailed you and not realised you’re locked out already.

secondly the being locked out of the systems - that’s perfectly normal because you aren’t working your notice. Someone has filled in a leavers form and in the box for last day of work they’ve ticked the resignation date. Sent it to IT and it’s been actioned super quickly. The person filling it in might not have clicked that you are already blocked from the system.

if you are due any pay I’d want to double check that’s going to be right as well, as someone may have made a mistake on the leavers form.

i’d call your line manager if I was you to say goodbye.

I hope you are better soon.

Why are you even trying to log in if you're off sick? That's probably why they've locked you out of everything.

As others have said it would have been more reasonable of you to at least phone your line manager first to let them know that you were handing in your notice, especially after 10years. I expect they may feel slighted hence the no response to your email. Also you should not have any need to access work systems since you won't be returning, that bit is perfectly fair and reasonable. Yes you should have had a response but you did not afford them the courtesy of a phonecall/chat so I can see why they have gone with minimum contact, they have followed your lead.

Unfortunately in those situations I suspect an employee would have gathered up all the information they wanted before they handed in their notice.

''@FrangipaniBlue ·
Did you speak to your line manager?
I'll be honest, as a line manager I'd consider it pretty rude if one of my team (especially of 10 years?!) simply sent an email out of the blue without having a conversation with me too.....''

Nonsense. it is very common to do that so that the notice is in writing and there is a record of when it was handed out. Also if the OP is on sick leave, she would not be able to speak to her manager face to ace anyway.

As a manager, I have often had people resigning by email and I have done it myself. When a staff member does that I simply arrange a one to one meeting with them to discuss what is expected of them during the notice period and to give them a chance to discuss anything else (if they want to go into more details about why they are living for example) they want to raise about their resignation and their time in the organisation.

What's ridiculous and rude is the idea that simply freezing out the employee out of everything like this with no warning and no acknowledgment of the notice could be justified...

I think it's ok you gave notice by email

If you're not working your notice, fair enough to lock you out of systems

I think they will write to you

Hope your health improves

Expending on my previous message I am actually astonished at the responses that the OP has got.

She has not done anything wrong: she is off sick, she has decided to hand out her notice and she has followed the correct procedure.

There is nothing incorrect about giving notice while on sick leave and in choosing to do it in writing as you are unable to speak to your line manager face to face.

She has been a good employee for 10 years and now wishes to leave. End of story.

The behaviour of the employer is appalling and it is truly bizarre that so many people think it is OK to treat her like this.

She should at least not have been locked out of her email account until HR had acknowledged her resignation and they discussed any outstanding pay and holiday pay and confirmed back to her the official date when her employment would end. If she had any uniform, door pass and so on, the employer should have also discussed with her how to return this. Standard procedures for any decent employers...

In some industries you do have to go on garden leave and immediately leave your workplace because of concerns about sensitive Information or clients, but you can be sure that the employee is made aware by HR of what is happening and communicated with them about notice, pay/annual leave and so on.

Seriously, what sort of places do some people work in?

Maybe they’ve seen you’re accessing work related stuff whilst off sick, and can’t see why. It does seem a bit off to want to go into work stuff when you’re off sick.

Not unrelated……

If you are on the point of leaving a job, retiring etc download payslips, p60, email addresses, personal things that had been sent to work email etc etc etc. Nothing sensitive - it was a school.

I retired and went back to it a day or two later. Gone. P60 was a real problem.

With regard to this post I’d have called first to have a chat, explore options, let them know before firing off an email.

I agree. Some people seem to think being immediately locked out is normal for Civil Service. Not in my experience as you needed access to the HR/Payroll systems right to the end. As well as being expected to work right up until you left!!