worry about handing notice in etc.

Dakta

Hi there

it seems only a few weeks ago I was on here complaining about employers never getting back to applicants who didn't meet their criteria and 'leaving them hanging'.

How things have changed! The situation couldn't be any more different.

I was recruited by a local company in the end, and I started work with enthusiasm but after a few weeks realised I was perhaps a bit of a poor fit, for the most of it people are friendly but realised I was going to have a bit of friction with someone else who worked their who seemed to feel I was coming in to steal their thunder really, and we've got to a situation that whilst we are all civil, everything I do is wrong, or monitored, everything i do is 'the wrong way' and I'm not really getting any help when i need it or request it.

Up to press I've turned a blind eye as I accept I'll have been taught by previous companies to do things differently and so to expect to have to adapt somewhat, and realise that other people in the office might feel a bit insecure about my arrival to help them with their jobs, but lately its become quite a bit worse, which was worrying until lo and behold I was contacted for another interview with a company I applied to ages ago for a job i never really expected to get but put a chance application in.

Anyway result is I've been offered the job, whose salary is significantly greater than the one i'm in currently and I'm eager to go for it, but I'm actually feeling a bit bad about the company I'm leaving, the management have been mostly good with me, even though the front line staff have been quite off at times, and due to workload levels I know, desptie the constant griping about the way i do work, I just know leaving is going to put the cat amongst the pigeons for their business.

How bad should I feel? This is a once in a lifetime career making opportunity but I hate leaving a job so soon after starting (been there for 8 weeks so far) and I am, to be blunt, a bit concerned how they will react.

I'm now being contacted daily by the new company as to whether I've handed my notice in, the other thing is, my current company haven't advised me on the notice period they expect from me, and I'm a bit apprehensive about admitting this to the new company in case they judge me badly for not knowing - the new company is a large corporate entity where my current one is more of an informal family oriented business.

Legally I beleive it's 7 days but frankly I don't know what to expect.

Thoughts on a postcard, how much should I care about my current employers predicament when I jump?

[Deleted User]

I reckon it will be 7 days or less. You have to do what's right for you just as a company will for them.

Any new employer can make you wait up to 8 weeks before issuing 'employment particulars' so I wouldn't feel so wrong not knowing.

I know someone who might potentially be offered another job later today! who has been called into work on their day off on cover, so the timing could be seen as some sort of awful funny retaliation I guess though it's not meant to be. Still least all colleagues holiday got covered this summer if nothing else. Does she really want the current job of working the shifts no one else wants.

Dakta

Legally I've got it down to 7 days as I don't have anything otherwise agreed but have worked there for over a month.

However it's probably going to inconvenience them greatly due to very little cover (lots of people booked a fortnight or so off at the moment) so it is their reaction really that I'm dreading.

I've spent a lot of the day 'managing peoples moods' as it is (it can be a nice place but it can also be a volatile one) so I was kinda hoping it won't be seen too badly. But I'm predicting the worst.

I hear what you say about doing right by me as a company would do right for itself, everyone says that or similar, and all of you are, of course, in essence quite right.

Not sure why i feel such loyalty as day to day i don't really get that much consideration or respect but thats just how I am I guess.

JReacher1

I suspect your current employer won’t really care that much.

People like to overthink situations but no matter what size of the company they will be used to people resigning. In the grand scheme of things replacing someone who has been there for only 8 weeks is very simple to do.

getmore4less

In these situation you really have 2 choices.

resign with contractual notice*.
resign with contractual notice but offer a bit more to help out.

current company haven't advised me on the notice period they expect from me,

in the absence of anything give a week they will come back to you quickly then if they want more.

If they do want more than a week ask them where in the contract that was specified(contract included anything communicated verbally)

You can decide how much you want to say about the job not being a good fit but that is an aside as the knew offer is better anyway so you would still go.


* when joining a company and preferably before you start you should know what the notice periods are, if not written ask specifically in writing(email is fine) what they are and if there is a probation period do they change.



its up there with knowing the basics like pay, holiday, hours.

Dakta

"In the grand scheme of things replacing someone who has been there for only 8 weeks is very simple to do."

I'd love to agree, but there are positions here that have gone desperately unfilled for some time (we really are skeleton staff). If I go it will put an end to the possibility of one shift (night) unless they can find someone immediately.

I don't expect them to miss me, but they'l certainly miss having someone in my role

So I expect to be popular.

its up there with knowing the basics like pay, holiday, hours.

It should be, but this is the third company I've worked for that just doesn't bother - most companies i've worked at, even some scarily larger ones you really have a fight to get anything down in writing. It's all promised at the application stage of course, but then everyone just gets busy and it never happens. Had to get quite nasty with my previous company who in the end just said I didn't have to do the notice, I think it was simply a case of nobody could decide what it was.

Yeah, really professional, but thats small-to middle size family based companies, you're more seen as a chum that turns up than an employee, little thought given to the other end of the process (leaving) because once people are there thats generally it for 30 years or so