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AIBU?

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To resign on day of promotion?

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turniper · 31/08/2025 07:26

Worked for current company for a few years. Always on a fixed term contract. Was promised would be made permanent when I got a promotion to the next level. Then at renewal suddenly only got given a 6 month contract.

I said I was not happy and my boss really fought for me to management. Got offered a 12 month contract and the promotion. Which I took.

Applied for new jobs and told boss I wasn’t looking when asked. Going to receive formal offer of new job with different company on the day my promotion takes effect. Should be permanent role.

AIBU to resign on the day I get promoted? My old team will be really understaffed and my colleagues will be stressed as they won’t get a replacement for me very quickly.

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LessOfThis · 31/08/2025 07:29

The new job is permanent? I’d 100% do it. Or you could tell current job about the offer and see if they will offer you a permanent post. I wouldn’t be able to trust them though.

QuickFawn · 31/08/2025 07:29

You’ll get flamed, but I would
if company’s go back on their word to make you permanent when you’ve asked repeatedly, what do they expect

just consider if they then say miraculously they can make your permanent if you’d want to stay or still go

MidnightPatrol · 31/08/2025 07:30

I don’t see an issue with this, and would feel frustrated if I were you too.

AbzMoz · 31/08/2025 07:32

No, you’re not unreasonable to resign. The staffing of the current team or your replacement isn’t your problem.

I would only resign once the contract is signed and new start date is confirmed (ie later then the formal offer). Also check if perm staff have a diffferent notice period and if it affects your start date.

Nachoinseachthu · 31/08/2025 07:33

Unfortunate but nothing you can do. You’d be wrong to but your company’s best interests over your own.

Are you able to negotiate your notice period / start date so that you can take Christmas off?

turnedthattvoffforgood · 31/08/2025 07:33

Which job would you prefer?

you could use your new job as a bargaining chip and simply say ‘ I’ve been offered permanent employment which I need, are you able to match this? If not I will have to move on’

and see what they say

PumpkinPie2016 · 31/08/2025 07:33

I would take the other job, provided the terms and conditions are right for you.

Just explain to your current boss/company that the new job is a permanent role and you now need the security of a permanent contract.

They may actually offer you permanent if they don't want to lose you - in which case, if you want to stay, get it in writing before you let the other job go.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 31/08/2025 07:34

Your employer doesn't own you, so of course you can resign any time you like.

When would the new employer check references? Before or after the formal offer?

Maddy70 · 31/08/2025 07:34

It's fine to do this. They may well change their contract to permanent on the back of it

Katherine9 · 31/08/2025 07:34

Please don’t feel bad OP. It’s ridiculous you’ve had to fight for promotion and a permanent contract. These things can make staff feel very undervalued as well as add stress due to the uncertainty of future employment and income.

You wouldn’t have even been looking if they had managed it better in the first place. They should have secured your services much earlier rather than mess about.

Congratulations on your new position, wishing you the very best.

DoRayMeMeMe · 31/08/2025 07:36

Absolutely do not give them the chance to match. They have been breadcrumbing you and will continue to do so if they can.

Tell them you felt insulted and treated with no respect.

topcat2014 · 31/08/2025 07:37

Employers who only offer fixed term deserve this

Peonyperfection · 31/08/2025 07:38

Absolutely, they’ve shown you no loyalty. Know your worth and move on.

CrowMate · 31/08/2025 07:38

It’s fine and perfectly normal to do this. Personally, I wouldn’t use it as a bargaining chip as would you really want to stay somewhere where you’ve had to force their arm to fulfil their promise of a permanent contract?

Katherine9 · 31/08/2025 07:40

turnedthattvoffforgood · 31/08/2025 07:33

Which job would you prefer?

you could use your new job as a bargaining chip and simply say ‘ I’ve been offered permanent employment which I need, are you able to match this? If not I will have to move on’

and see what they say

I’m never sure about this as an approach. If someone has been honest and direct about requesting a permanent contract and it’s been refused, would getting it this way feel less of an achievement somehow? It would feel begrudged to me but maybe that’s not in any way important.

NewsdeskJC · 31/08/2025 08:08

I would go.
Frankly if current place is understaffed and reluctant to offer perm then none of the reasons for that bode well for the future.

Dozer · 31/08/2025 08:13

Agree with @AbzMoz I wouldn’t resign until everything is final with the new employer and check your notice period now that your status has changed.

YANBU to have sought a new job and not told your current employer. You were fixed term. Their resourcing problems aren’t your responsibility.

PotatoPrometheus · 31/08/2025 08:16

If the new job is a better job and a permanent contract then I’d deffo do it. Sure it’s not great timing but this company hasn’t shown you any loyalty as an employee (and actively broken promises) so what loyalty do you owe them?

As for leaving a team to be short-staffed, that’s not your problem and anyone in that team who blames you personally (rather than the company/management - who’s problem it actually is) is just being petty/jealous that you’ve found something better and they haven’t.

Good luck OP! Hope it works out whatever decision you make….and congrats on the new job!

MyDogHumpsThings · 31/08/2025 08:18

I would resign. I would never use the other job as a bargaining chip - it might work in the short term, but in my personal experience, there can be a lingering resentment on both sides.

Ballardz · 31/08/2025 08:25

If they had treated you right to begin with, you wouldn’t have been looking for another job. So it’s very much on them that you need to do what’s right for you.

SaladAndChipsForTea · 31/08/2025 08:31

There are staffing problems because they are messing people like you around and/or morale and recruitment problems.

None of which is solvable by you. So I'd take the new job- even more so if your current employer can then miraculously pull a permanent job out thin air.

Omeara · 31/08/2025 08:38

Don’t feel guilty. You shouldn’t have been asked if you were looking for another job. It wouldn’t have been sensible to say you were anyway, that could have had negative consequences for you in terms of the promotion.

When you resign just tell your boss that you’d made it clear that you wanted a permanent position and when that wasn’t forthcoming, you decided to look elsewhere for one.

GelfBride · 31/08/2025 08:40

If you are 100% confident the new job is going to be great for you in every respect then take it. You have been treated badly by them. You are not to blame for the struggles of your workmates. It is the fault of the employer. They are free to look for alternative work too and probably will.

Poor management is the bane of this country.

MirrorMirrorontheFall · 31/08/2025 08:42

Of course you should, it’s a no brainer. You owe them absolutely nothing.

hannonle · 31/08/2025 08:46

I agree with PP who said to check your notice period. It might be better to resign before the new contract kicks in.

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