To resign on day of promotion?

[turniper]

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.

Once you’ve had to work this hard to get a 12 month contract, they’ve shown you who they are. If your new job is permanent, take it and ride off into the sunset.

Yes, resign when you’ve signed your new contract. And whatever you do, however lucrative the offer - do not accept a counter from your current employer. It’ll be nice for the first pay period, thereafter you’ll be treated like crap again. The way you’ve been treated is symptomatic of a bad employer.

Give statutory.
They’re not taking her to court over it. They will struggle to argue it’s an FTC, and that continuous employment applies.

Yes you are not indispensable.

it’s pretty normal to resign and work your notice.
You don’t need to be concerned about workload.

Also normal to not say if you are looking for work.

However I would wait until you have negotiated the terms of the new job. Then tell them at work and see if they offer you permanent

It's fine to do as long as the whole package is what you want.

You've informed your present company enough times that you'd prefer a job with a permanent contract, they haven't acted so you have.

Of course you can resign. You don't owe them any loyalty after how they've treated you.

At the end of the day you do what's right for you. It's not great for your colleagues but that is not your problem.

Your current company doesn’t value you. If they did they would do everything in their power to keep you. They’ve kept you dangling and reneged on promises they made. It would have cost them nothing to give you a permanent contract -you’ve proved yourself to them - yet they still chose to have one foot out the door.

A temp contract has implications if you want to take out a mortgage, long term loan, rent an home, etc. so a permanent contract doesn’t just offer stability - it opens the door to access and security.

Even if they made it permanent now I would leave. You have given them every opportunity to make an offer and demonstrate commitment and they haven’t. You don’t owe them commitment in return.

Just make sure you don’t resign until you have completed all the paperwork for the new job, but otherwise, not unreasonable at all. If they wanted to keep you they should have made you a permanent employee.

Congrats on your new role @turniper

You’re not unreasonable at all - they’ve dicked you about for too long.

I’m in a similar position and already plan to do the same. My promised promotion and new (fancy) job title hasn’t yet been “finalised by the higher ups” despite me doing the role for the last 12 months. I have no qualms at all about resigning as soon as I’ve got the job title (which will look better than my current one on a CV so worth hanging on for).

I rationalise things like this by realising that when it comes to restructuring or redundancy the “higher ups” act a lot quicker! We’re nothing more than a commodity and shouldn’t kid ourselves otherwise.

Assuming you want the other job, of course you should. You have to look out for yourself. You say your manager “Im so incredibly grateful you went into bat for me so hard, but you’ll understand I just can’t turn down a permanent role for a 12 month contract, especially in this climate and after the company reneged on the previous promise to make me permanent.” Your manager then gets to go to senior management and say “I told you so - I told you she would leave if we didn’t make her permanent.”

There is a slim chance they will then convert your offer to a permanent one, so you should give some thought to go t to what you would do in that position.

Also, it’s quite possible that they aren’t making you permanent because they are the workplace equivalent of “just not that into you”, and if someone better comes along in future, they won’t renew the next contract.

Don't ever put a company's interest over your own. You owe them nothing. Do what's best for you.

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