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

[InTheAbyss]

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?

Not exactly resigned but I got offered a new job and was unsure whether to take it or not. Asked for advice from friends on fb including colleagues. One of them got to my boss at 8am the next day before I did. It wasn't a secret that I did applied for the job, I'd told my boss I had applied and was having an interview.

When I did get hold of her to tell her I was handing my notice in she was furious and said she'd already heard and I shouldn't have put it on fb before I'd told her. I said I hadn't put on fb that I was handing my notice in as at that point I hadn't decided. Pointed out my only responsibility was to hand my notice in, I could tell who else I wanted first if I wished! Did not go down well.

The workshop manager reached the end of his rope one day and wrecked loads of the cars (scratched paintwork etc) and then walked out.
If this really happend, (i doubt if it did), it's just nasty (and criminal). All he did was to damage inocent customers property.It would not take long for the police to get at the truth. He would then have a criminal record and who would employ him?

From the Ask A Manager website:

"“I worked in high school at a mismanaged grocery chain that is now out of business. I was a cashier but they had a 16-year-old girl working behind the fish counter (which was illegal) and who was not being paid properly for the work she was doing (because she wasn’t supposed to be doing it!).

On Sunday, the beginning of the pay period, she clocked in, wrote ‘I QUIT’ in cod, haddock, and tilapia filets in the seafood counter, and clocked out. She framed a photo of her masterwork and her last paycheck for $2 and hung it in her bedroom."

There's a photo as well: www.askamanager.org/2019/01/open-thread-january-11-12-2019.html

My mate fantasises about doing a quadrophenia style resignation - "you can take your job, and your eye teeth, and your 'insert job relevant bollocks here' and all the other shit I have to deal with and shove it up your arse!" but he wants to do it via a YouTube video. To the whole company.

I was on temporary secondment to a department where I hated the line manager and she hated me in turn. She took great relish to tell me my secondment was not being extended. I took even greater relish to tell her I got a permanent position in another more prestigious department and will be ending my secondment early.

Her face was a picture

Depends on whether she's written your reference yet!

At his last job (payroll), DP resigned just before the Christmas break, when, with the leave they owed him, he only had to work about 6 days out of the month.

And he was the only one with a clue how to deal with complex HMRC queries, so he didn't deal with any for at least two weeks before he resigned, so he left them with a load of shitty work that no-one else could do.

Stick a kipper under her carpet or under her chair along with the prawns

On my last day in a seriously shit job, I creativity rearranged the filing and swapped over people’s desk keys.

I worked for an absolute scrotum, so when I found another job I gave my notice at the very last minute I could to cover my notice period (5:25 on the Friday before I left). I gave him no reason, just my notice to leave. When he asked, i just smiled and said I don't want to discuss it. He'd done so many bad things that by not telling him, he couldn't build up his defence. Also didn't tell any workmates why I was leaving and where I was going. His obvious discomfort about what I was going to reveal to HR at the exit interview was a delight - he was almost hysterical, begging me to tell him. Also copied over emails from him when he'd been a cunt, to my home email address and changed my passwords on company system so he couldn't delete evidence without asking IT for access. Mwahaha!

I scanned across my resignation letter to my manager knowing that she couldn’t do anything about it as she was working on her own at a different location. She told me she wanted to speak to me, but I said ‘it is what it is’ 🖕🏼

I had to work on my own a lot, and use my initiative on it, as she was never there to ok things and difficult to get hold of. So I just got on with things, and ok’d stuff she normally would as she wasn’t around and HO were never interested or any help. It was frustrating, but after having to train up a useless colleague who couldn’t even tie his own shoe laces, which led me to be off with stress. It wasn’t worth it 🤷🏼‍♀️

I had an awful boss. She had been with the company a long time. She was good at her job but crap with staff. For some reason she hated the CEO and Financial Director talking to me (they were really lovely people).

Lots of things happened and in the end I went to the union with all the notes I had kept. Union wanted me to take my grievance further, but I then landed a fantastic job two mins from home.

On my last day just right before I left I emailed all of my notes to the CEO and the Directors and gave them all of the reasons why I was leaving.

Apparently it’s like she has had a brain transplant and is now super nice to everyone - I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when she was hauled in front of HR. In my exit interview they asked me (I gave them all of my notes too) if I wanted her spoken to. Of course my answer was yes.

The call center decided to bring in new computer generated shift patterns, which meant very few hours per week for half the year and 60 hours a week for the other half. This all started in the good half of the year.

We were paid the same per month regardless. I checked with them that in the event of resignation, shift swaps would be honoured and there was no claw back if under contracted hours had been worked. Then I requested the pattern with the least hours worked by the date I planned to leave and swapped as many shifts as possible for others after that date.

Basically I worked 25-30 hour weeks for 5 months, then handed in my notice with just 2 work days in the 4 week notice and didn’t have to work my payback swap shifts. Luckily had a great job to go to as I was rota’d for 70-80 hour weeks for the next six months.

Going back many years I had a job based in London that was a duffer. Never getting paid on time, far too much expected etc. I just left but the lady that followed me left pretty soon too and for the same reasons. She drove the company car to Truro hospital and left it there and came home on the train, posting the keys to the company. Some poor sap had to travel down to get it and pay the parking fines presumably. The company no longer exists. Not surprising really.

I left a polite resignation letter on the Finance Director's desk, along with a bundle of files.

The files had disappeared at the time of an audit and the unfortunate 17 year old clerk had been blamed for losing them. I'd found them as I was checking I'd picked up all my property, behind the filing cabinets.

Turned out that the manager was found guilty of a substantial fraud and did time as a result of that - those files were the ones where payments had been altered, alternative payees had been made, addresses were different to the ones on the computer system, etc.

Nothing to do with me, I just left a nice resignation note. And some previously missing files the evidence they needed to prosecute and secure a conviction.

I knew a filing clerk in the Civil Service who filed all the clive casepapers (numerical identification) in the dormant files (alphabetical ID).

Not mine, but if I ever do need a dramatic resignation, I'm ABSOLUTELY following (needs sound!)

Quite a few years ago when I was in my early 20's I was a lot timid than I am now . I was in 1 job for 3 weeks I hated it . The final straw was when my manager shouted at me until I cried because I dared to answer back . I went out at lunch time and never came back I never rang or anything. I got paid what I was owed but I always said no way will I let someone upset me at work again .
This thread is good timing my boss really pissed me off today being petty so I walked out the office , I came back 5 minutes later though, I've got a mortgage to pay . I just don't understand managers who think they can treat employees like crap sometimes and then they wonder why they quit

Mines very tame really. I had only worked there a month and it was horrible, nobody even made or reciprocated any effort I made to chat and fit in. A month later a job I'd applied for before I got that one came through and I handed in my notice. I got hauled into the big boss' office who loudly and aggressively protested. I called in sick the next day for the remainder of my notice, and when the the bitchy receptionist insisted I had to tell boss myself I just hung up.

Next job turned out to be awful too. I went off sick with stress (genuinely) and handed in my notice as I knew I wouldn't recover with going back there hanging over me. I took a lot of business trips and hadn't yet completed my expenses report - a horribly complicated system that in the 2 years I'd been there my bullying boss had found something wrong in my (and everybody else's) submissions every month. They told me they expected me to still do them. I took great delight in not doing the submission and handing back 3 different currencies (given to me for trips by finance) in as small and varied change coins as I could manage, all mixed in together along with the receipts, all present but in no order. I take small pleasure in the fact that it would take ages and they wouldn't be able to reconcile it (petty cash, not everything could have a receipt) and I hadn't done a thing wrong as I'd given them every penny of change and receipts and I was off sick so of course it was reasonable that I didn't do the damn stupid expenses report work while off sick.

I also sent the HSE in after them after 6 months. I told nobody at all, and the HSE kept it confidential but a friend within the company told me my stupid bullying ex boss went balistic after they'd gone, shouting "I TOLD you we hadn't heard the last from her!!!" ... which was quite satisfying 😏

Oh no! Just seen they replaced the original sound to the video (used to be Kanye's "Gone")

Congrats on your new job OP!
I always dream of getting a new job, and as I have SO much leave, days in lieu etc left over each year that I'm rushing to use, I can picture me resigning, then using all my time owed and only being there another 2 days!
I would miss my colleagues, but the work and organisation (public sector) is truly dreadful and we are losing staff like water through a sieve. They would be so shocked that the person that everyone asks their questions to has just jacked the job in

My last job extended our notice period from 2 weeks to 4. I was being pissed about (good enough to do extra hours at short notice, but not good enough to get the full time contract doing the exact same job). I applied, interviewed for and got another job and handed in my 2 weeks notice. My boss (who was leaving that week as well) protested I needed to give 4 weeks. I told him to sack me and left 2 weeks later. I was due them nothing.

Ds was treated badly by his manager, applied for another post in the same building under a different manager asking that his application wasn't discussed with his manager first. Took annual leave for the interview that was held in another building. Aced the interview and was offered the post which he accepted.
Manager (who knew how badly ds had been treated) then went back to his office crowing that ds had given the best interview he had ever sat in and they couldn't wait to have him in their department. Ds put in his resignation the day he got back from AL by which time everyone knew he was leaving. Manager's reference criticised his encyclopaedic knowledge of the department and processes which had made him indispensible and complained that his leaving would be catastrophic as ds had not ensured that others could take on his role.
Ds gets to watch at close quarters as his former department sinks and manager still emails asking for advice from ds who has conveniently managed to forget anything he asks.