Name change...
Today my boss gave me an update on the new role he’s been creating for me after I verbally resigned in August and he persuaded me to stay.
Tomorrow I am telling him I have accepted another job and am handing in my notice. The new job is better paid, fewer overnight stays and a chance to grow a new team.
I am sure it’s the right decision but I’m also sad about the new role I won’t get to do, the good working relationships I have spent years building and I feel like a shit for messing my boss around.
I really wanted to get the written offer before today’s meeting so we could use it to plan my handover. But it didn’t come through so I had to keep quiet and all about a future job I know I won’t be doing. Then the offer came through after the meeting.
(BUT if he’d got the role change nailed faster I would have withdrawn from the other one before it got to an offer. The reason he didn’t is because my change was a tiny thing in an environment of strategic reviews and associated political jostling, which is one of the reasons I don’t see my future here)
Don’t know why I’m posting really, just sad and need a virtual “it’s ok”