National Trust VR employee - retiring/resigning

TELLIT01

People often make the mistake of believing they are more vital to the running of an organisation than they really.  Everybody takes annual leave and it's very rare for a company to fail to function during their absence.  How the employer copes is their problem, not that of the departing employee.

GibbsRule_No3.

Just an update. Finally settled and as expected it is four weeks that my friend needed.

oh_really

Undervalued said:

oh_really said:

I suspect wires have been crossed somewhere or the person asked was informationally challenged.

Her notice period is likely to be 1 week or 4 weeks.

On what do you base that assumption?

Whilst there in no legal requirement for the notice periods to be equal either way, it is certainly not uncommon in these sort of organisations.

So I wouldn't be surprised if they did require her to give the same notice she would be legally entitled to get from them. In this case 10 weeks. Also as this is their busy time of the year, plus the time when many staff want to take holidays, I suspect they would be reluctant to waive it.

GibbsRule_No3. said:

Just an update. Finally settled and as expected it is four weeks that my friend needed.

Hope your suitably surprised. Not sure why you thought it would be any different.

GibbsRule_No3.

oh_really said:

Undervalued said:

oh_really said:

I suspect wires have been crossed somewhere or the person asked was informationally challenged.

Her notice period is likely to be 1 week or 4 weeks.

On what do you base that assumption?

Whilst there in no legal requirement for the notice periods to be equal either way, it is certainly not uncommon in these sort of organisations.

So I wouldn't be surprised if they did require her to give the same notice she would be legally entitled to get from them. In this case 10 weeks. Also as this is their busy time of the year, plus the time when many staff want to take holidays, I suspect they would be reluctant to waive it.

GibbsRule_No3. said:

Just an update. Finally settled and as expected it is four weeks that my friend needed.

Hope your suitably surprised. Not sure why you thought it would be any different.

Because you’d expect HR and managers to know what they were talking about but like Gibbs Rule #3 we “double checked” and they did decide we were right in our thinking.

oh_really

GibbsRule_No3. said:

Because you’d expect HR and managers to know what they were talking about but like Gibbs Rule #3 we “double checked” and they did decide we were right in our thinking.

I'm a little battle hardned when dealing with HR and managers. Never underestimate their lack of knowledge, understanding or experience. If they don't know, make it up is the usual by-word, its an ego thing that comes back to bite them.

BTW, the quote was for undervalued's attention ( ), i quoted you for context, not to question you, apologies if that wasnt clear. (read undervalued's post directed to me and you should get it).

Manxman_in_exile

I wouldn't necessarily expect HR and managers to know any correct answers... 

Thrugelmir

Manxman_in_exile said:

I wouldn't necessarily expect HR and managers to know any correct answers... 

The answer will depend on the question asked. A conversation relating to VR would illicit a totally different response. 

Manxman_in_exile

I wouldn't necessarily expect HR and managers to know any correct answers... whatever the question...