New jobs & resignations

[Captainweasel]

After months of unhappiness, I have found myself a new job. I now have to suffer the pain of actually resigning from my current job.

As much as I'd love to be all "see you later biatches, I'm outta here" it's probably not the professional done thing. I've written a letter. And will have a meeting with my manager tomorrow. Just absolutely papping myself at actually having to go through with it.

Any suggestions on how to make it am easier conversation?

I'm leaving for a variety of reasons, money isn't one of them am sure that they'll offer me a pay increase to stay. So need to stay strong. It's not all about the money (new place are offering more, but it's more the getting my life back I'm more interested in...)

Thank them for the opportunity...time to move on

I think you imagine you mean a lot more to them than may be the case. Most managers expect people to move on every so many years, it's not a massive deal. If you've been unhappy for a while they may well have picked up on that and it may not come as too big a surprise to them.

Most places ask for resignations to also be done in writing. Maybe take your resignation letter to the meeting in an envelope so that you have your intentions written down before you go in? Doesn't need to be long, just two lines saying you're tendering your resignation and offering X no of weeks according to your contract. Thanks for the opportunities if you want to be particularly nice