Plan to quit job next year - Informing manager in advance - How/What say?

DidleySquat

Hi
After many years working in my current employment I have decided to bite the bullet and plan to leave around June next year when I will be able to get access to my private pension  
I've not been happy in my current role for a very long time and seek change whilst I'm still young enough to do so.  I  don't care what I do, I just want change, and with the private pension, I can take a reduction in pay).  Otherwise, I feel that I'll be there still sat at my desk till I can claim my ordinary pension (if it's not gone (or me) by then! 
I have an appraisal next week and plan to tell my boss of my plans then, as although I'm not a lynch pin to operations and at office grunt level, they will need to make plans for other's to do my job if I'm not there.  I'm starting to look for another part time jobs now as I will still need to have some other money coming in apart from what I'd get from my private pension.  
I was thinking of being completely upfront and saying that I will definitely be leaving next year, but that it may leave sooner (dependant on job search), or I may put my name forward for voluntary redundancy which comes around every March for efficiencies which may work for both my employer and myself especially if they know I am definitely leaving.  
What are people's opinions on what to say to my manager? 
TIA

MattMattMattUK

DidleySquat said:

Hi
After many years working in my current employment I have decided to bite the bullet and plan to leave around June next year when I will be able to get access to my private pension  
I've not been happy in my current role for a very long time and seek change whilst I'm still young enough to do so.  I  don't care what I do, I just want change, and with the private pension, I can take a reduction in pay).  Otherwise, I feel that I'll be there still sat at my desk till I can claim my ordinary pension (if it's not gone (or me) by then! 
I have an appraisal next week and plan to tell my boss of my plans then, as although I'm not a lynch pin to operations and at office grunt level, they will need to make plans for other's to do my job if I'm not there.  I'm starting to look for another part time jobs now, as I will still need to have some other money coming in apart from what I'd get from my private pension.  
I was thinking of being completely upfront and saying that I will definitely be leaving next year, but it may leave sooner (dependant on job search), or I may put my name forward for voluntary redundancy which comes around every March for efficiencies which may work for both my employer and myself especially if they know I am definitely leaving.  
What are people's opinions on what to say to my manager? 
TIA

Do not tell them anything until you have a solid plan in place, it would almost guarantee you will not be offered voluntary redundancy as you would be leaving anyway. 

Work out what you want to do, look at options, apply, have interviews, hand in your notice when you have a new job, or if luck is on your side combine it with voluntary redundancy when offered. 

Brie

No - don't do it.  I know that it seems like the right and fair thing to do but should there be redundancy you could well miss out as having already given notice. 

A colleague gave notice for her job but the manager decided to make it official immediately and gave her 30 days pay in lieu of notice.  And the following week announced redundancies that she didn't qualify for as officially she was already gone.  

Wyndham

Another vote for not saying anything.

If you do, they may decide to give you notice instead and you may be out quicker than you'd planned!

molerat

You should have a notice period in your contract, that is what it is there for.

Emmia

Absolutely agree with all of the points made. The moment you tell them you're going, whether you have a new job or not, you're a dead man walking - that's likely to mean you start losing the interesting work (if any) or they give you your paid notice. 

It's often easier to move jobs whilst you're still employed, so I'd start looking now, find yourself somewhere else and then move handing your notice in, in the usual fashion. 

PParka

Another vote for not giving them any more notice than you have to.

vacheron

It very much depends on your employer. 

I have had employers who would do everything to help someone planning on leaving. One of my previous employers even encouraged a long time employee who had quit in a fit of rage to "hold on just a few more weeks" because they knew voluntary redundancies were coming. 

Other employers would preclude you from every perk and pay rise as they know you are going anyway.

I'd sadly imagine more employers are in the latter, rather than the former category. So would concur with the keeping quiet option despite giving extra notice for them to fill the upcoming void being the morally (but not finiancially) correct thing to do. 

Marcon

DidleySquat said:

I have an appraisal next week and plan to tell my boss of my plans then, as although I'm not a lynch pin to operations and at office grunt level, they will need to make plans for other's to do my job if I'm not there.  I'm starting to look for another part time jobs now as I will still need to have some other money coming in apart from what I'd get from my private pension.  

Yup, that's what all employers have to do when someone leaves.

They aren't going to start planning in early November for something which might or might not happen in 6 months+.

Give in your notice when you know for certain that you're leaving.

DidleySquat said:

 
I was thinking of being completely upfront and saying that I will definitely be leaving next year, but that it may leave sooner (dependant on job search), or I may put my name forward for voluntary redundancy which comes around every March for efficiencies which may work for both my employer and myself especially if they know I am definitely leaving.  

Why would they consider you for voluntary redundancy if they know you're leaving anyway? No point paying you to go if you've already confirmed you are going of your own volition...

born_again

Like the others above do nothing for now.
If you find a job then fine just go with normal notice. If a chance for redundancy comes up take it. 

lincroft1710

Another vote for doing nothing at the moment.