Dismissal or Resign?

isingh1

To all you posters on this thread and people who have viewed it for they're own knowledge,

I'd like to firstly thank you all for your help and opinions during this time.
I really appreciate all of your comments, and to be honest, I wasn't sure where to turn to during this festive period with many organisations being closed.
But as I needed this resolved fairly quickly, this was the best place to ask.

So the update I can provide is the following:

- I initially went into work on Monday with the intention to resign with immediate effect, but having had a word with family members, they told me to firstly speak to HR and find out what my reference would say IF I was to resign.
Which I was told that it was just state basic information: The position I work and effectively the dates I worked. That's it. Which is fair and probably what I'd need it to say based on the circumstances.

I then went to speak to my line manager, Apologised for what had happened over the period of time it had and took full responsibility for it and handed in my resignation, effective immediately.
I was polite and easy with him and suggested that I would work until the end of the day, hand over any work and happy to make it as easy as possible for them.
He accepted it and just suggested that he needs to check things over with HR, as I had not provided the correct notice period.

A hour or two later, I was invited to one of our directors office who was disappointed in what had just happened but also was happy to accept this.
However due the fact I had not provided enough notice, there was a shortage of staff problem.
They decided that as I had resigned, they would cancel any pending disciplinary actions and the meeting to be held on Thursday, in return I would have to carry out my notice period.

I accepted this straight away and again stressed that I had no problem in working out my notice period, if they could provide in writing that they would cancel any actions against me.

Purely my opinion, but as this time of year is kind of period when business close their financial books etc. There was pending work that only I knew how to do in my dept (that I know off) and again the issue with staff shortages at the moment, perhaps lead to this decision with the director and my manager. I could be wrong, but I guess this was a slightly better outcome for all parties involved.

I am very thankful for the outcome and was not happy I would say as I was on my way out. But thankful to my manager and director for what they did, as they didn't have to that.

But as its a new year, I guess it was time for a change and for me to do something different. I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. So maybe it was just time to move on.

So I'm now searching for new roles at the moment.

Thank you all once again, and Happy New Year to you all and your families.

BrassicWoman

Thanks for the update. I think that’s a decent result. Well done - it’s never easy having the conversation

Masomnia

Sounds like a good outcome for everyone. Best of luck.

jobbingmusician

You come across as a decent and forthright person, and I genuinely hope this outcome bodes well for the future. Best wishes for the future.

Savvy_Sue

Agree this sounds like a very decent outcome, and my one piece of advice would be to work your socks off during this period and not do ANYTHING which could conceivably lead them to change their mind and dismiss you for gross misconduct.

Ja7188

Yep, it sounds like you've handled a tricky situation as well as you could have done - and with your notice period, you'll hopefully have time to find an alternative role - provided that you put in the hours on evening and weekends as it can be a time-consuming process.

My only other piece of advice would be to make sure you learn from this - many issues can be resolved with no need for any formal procedures to start - far better to nip things in the bud.

If you need some advice on how to survive a month or two not working without racking up interest and/ or other financial penalties by using 0% cards etc. then take a good look at the other areas of this site - there's a vast amount of useful information and advice.

Good luck!