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To ask for the worst way to resign? (Petty)

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InTheAbyss · 22/01/2019 17:48

After almost a year of working for a bitchy, micro-managing boss, I'm within tasting distance of a new job and am fantasising about ways I can get her back for months of nit-picking and holding annual leave requests over my head by making my resignation as annoying and inconvenient as I can.

I'm thinking of sending the email:

  • before a long meeting she has to chair
  • 4.55 on a Friday
  • the morning of her going away on holiday when I know she'll need working from home that day

I know I'm being silly and petty and I'll probably do a boring old resignation instead, but thinking up petty ways to ruin her day with my resignation is giving me so much glee.

What's the worst ways you've ever resigned? or thought about but chickened out?

OP posts:
Weezol · 22/01/2019 18:37

All of the passwords were different - she was one if those fake wheat/dairy intolerant types (ate a lot of cheese sandwiches from the canteen) a vegetarian that ate chicken and fish, got awkward when booking meals out or away days. You know the type.), so I mostly went for variations of heritage grains and obscure 'only made in one small village in the Pyrenees' type cheeses combined with numbers from the asset codes on the office printers.

She was so shit at IT security that I was able to do this while logged in as her.

blueshoes · 22/01/2019 18:38

I resigned when my hated manager recently got promoted. It was a timing coincidence but a good slap in her face as a vote of no-confidence in her. I gave her a hug for a farewell and a 'good luck with it' look of fake concern on my face.

cakesandphotos · 22/01/2019 18:39

I used to work in a boarding school. We had staff leave in the night, not come back after days off. Lots of people only lasted a few weeks, some a few days and one or two a few hours. I stuck it out for 2 years, more fool me

chocatoo · 22/01/2019 18:39

Do it as professionally as possible but bring in cakes and make it clear to all that you are celebrating being able to leave.

trumpdump · 22/01/2019 18:39

Many years ago, I worked in a famous pizza restaurants. The manager was awful. She never had a nice word to say about anyone.

Anyway, a group of us were leaving to go to university and decided to all hand our one-week notice on the same day. Thus, by the next week, she had lost a 3rd of her staff. We did feel bad for the other staff, but the look on her face was worth it.

Believeitornot · 22/01/2019 18:40

It’s better not to burn your bridges 🤣

Just do it nicely and explain why you’re going. They won’t take it seriously if you’re arsed about it.

Namechangedforthis79 · 22/01/2019 18:40

Love this thread. I have similar daydreams.

Missingstreetlife · 22/01/2019 18:41

First make sure your reference is safe. Ask for an exit interview with hr or higher up manager.

planespotting · 22/01/2019 18:41

In person!!! Watch the face GrinGrinGrin

WorldofTofuness · 22/01/2019 18:42

Years back, I moved to a job that was unexpectedly shit, with a line manager who took an odd dislike to me and didn't hesitate to show it (it was his retirement do I was thinking of with my "Sorry I'm busy that day" post on the Bridezilla thread).

One day I was sitting with my usual anomie when LM on one side started having an over-loud debate with the boss, with me sitting between them.
I visualised walking out....
and home....
and packing a rucsac...
and walking...
and just keeping on walking...

You see, I'd joined the civil service 5 years earlier as a last-ditch attempt at 'proper employment, rather than the travelling I actually wanted to do.

I wish I'd done it. It would have fucked my CS 'career', but that turned out to be a crock of shite anyway.

planespotting · 22/01/2019 18:43

Please please!!!
Make it look like it wasn't planned at all!!!
So next time you are talking to your manager just pick the moments and go
"Huh, you know what? I quit"
And turn around in a dramatic manner and leave Grin

Travisandthemonkey · 22/01/2019 18:44

This is brilliant.
Just stuff a prawn sandwich behind her radiator

Signposted · 22/01/2019 18:45

I hated my last job as the hiring managers who I liked when I joined left and were replaced by new managers who just didn’t get what we had been bought in to do, think taking a very old style company online as a way of saving it.

They made my life hell, cut budget and basically threw aside any idea I put on the table.....I started looking for a job before it ground me down.

At the start if what turned out to be my final day, I walked into the office and received a call from the recruitment agency to say that I had been successful in getting a new and fantastic job. Before I had a chance for this news to sink in my boss pulled me aside and asked for a chat before walking me to a corner office where HR was waiting. Then I got the story of ‘amalgamating roles.......change of direction.....I would have to reapply etc etc. OR they were prepared to make me an offer to leave’, my contract was very generous due to how I negotiated when I joined as I was head hunted plus a 3 month notice period on top of redundancy

Needless to say I ‘reluctantly’ accepted the redundancy offer and waited for the paperwork to be signed before letting slip to the office gossip how I had received and accepted a new job that very morning.

Had an amazing paid long summer holiday and love the new job....all made it worthwhile in the end

ResistanceIsNecessary · 22/01/2019 18:48

Timed my resignation to deliberately coincide with the notice period finishing the day before the two weeks' holiday she'd refused to authorise. The same two weeks she'd previously said I could have and then changed her mind when her best mate requested it after me.

She was an awful manager anyway but it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

brizzledrizzle · 22/01/2019 18:48

I worked in a hotel and told the boss I needed to go home because I felt sick, he accused me of putting it on and refused. My leaving gift to him, as I never returned, was being sick in the hotel kitchen and they had to close the restaurant for the rest of the night.

Tupperwarelid · 22/01/2019 18:52

On the very last day of term before the 6 weeks summer holiday so 4 weeks notice was complete during the holidays and there was no-one to take on the job in September as the school was closed, staff were on holiday etc and no recruitment was done.

TressiliansStone · 22/01/2019 18:53

Not even a resignation, but a sacking at one of my dad's company's clients.

Manager told bloke to put down what he was doing and get himself off the site.

So he did.

Work continued on site as usual till home time.

It was only the next morning that manager discovered Sacked Bloke's final task each day was to rinse out the massive hose with which the crew were laying concrete.

SugarinaPlum · 22/01/2019 18:54

I did a “drop you in it” exit with the other team member, same day, everyone knew it was because our boss was awful.
A few months later I started to receive letters from companies trying to sell various business services - the old cow had been giving my name and home address to cold caller businesses.

ShowMeTheKittens · 22/01/2019 18:56

I vote for leaving something smelly somewhere. Its childish and does not destroy the chance of a reference!

MrsPinkCock · 22/01/2019 18:57

I really regret not leaving a bag of prawns in the ceiling panels above my ex bosses desk before I left.

Must try harder.

Grace212 · 22/01/2019 18:57

I was thinking there must be something in the film Office Space....

the main character took his cubicle apart with a screwdriver, gutted a fish and chucked the parts on some much hated reports.

WeakAsIAm · 22/01/2019 18:58

My boss decided to extend my working day the day before my annual leave. I'd gone in planning to finish at 3 so I could collect my holiday money before the shop closed.
She left at 2 that day leaving me to lock up at 5:30 so could get my money changed cost me a fortune at the airport.
I saved my resignation for the day before her holiday, I had already left my uniform on my last shift a few days before.
I walked in 10 mins before closing handed her my shop keys told her to stick her job and walked out.
Her annual leave was cancelled, job done 😁

ElvisParsley · 22/01/2019 18:58

Have never managed a grand exit. I had a job that was supposed to be 3 months notice post probationary period, except they never amended my contract so I was still on one month. I had a shitty new incompetent manager and gave her my notice on the day I was going on annual leave for 2 weeks, watched her scuttle off to department head and then left for the day. Got back 2 weeks later and they tried to say I hadn’t given enough notice so showed them my contract. They had done nothing about replacing me as they thought they still had another 10 weeks. Cue all sorts of begging to get me to stay but I had a job to go to, in an industry regulator role where they couldn’t afford to piss me off! Grin

Racmactac · 22/01/2019 19:00

I hated my old boss she was a bitch and micromanaged everything.
I broke my ankle on the day I was due to hand my notice in so I emailed it.
They told me they would let my notice finish early but I refused and said no.
I then let them recruit someone else and told them I was coming back to work my last 2 weeks notice.
They refused but of course had to pay me sick pay and then full wages for 2 weeks plus all holiday.
They knew I never had any intention of going back for 2 weeks but contractually they were obliged to pay me.

ForalltheSaints · 22/01/2019 19:01

I left a job without serving my notice once, and pursued a claim for constructive dismissal (settled before a hearing).

As for the OP, a lot depends on whether or not you would ever wish to come back to the firm or need them for a reference. Resigning whilst the unpleasant boss is away and so having to go to their boss could mean you have an opportunity to say how unpleasant you have found a micro-manager. Or about five minutes before you would need to give notice for the week or month.