Telling manager I quit - Is this lame?

AinsleyFatCat

Hello  
I'm going to tell my manager soon that I intend to quit my job and go into semi-retirement somewhere else and have formulated what I want to say on paper.
Is it lame to read from my notes during the meeting as I'm sure that it will come out all wrong if I just say it off the top of my head.
Thank you in advance for any opinions

la531983

Why do you need a meeting at all, surely this is just a standard notice period you are giving, write a letter and hand it in and you dont need to explain yourself surely.

El_Torro

Up to you if you want to read from notes, whether it's lame or not is up to you to decide. If your manager thinks it's lame I wouldn't worry about it too much, they won't be your manager for much longer.

Most resignations need to be provided in writing, so they can just read it rather than you reading it out to them. 

Whenever I've resigned I've just stated in the letter that I'm leaving and when my last working day is. I usually put a very brief "It has been a pleasure working here, blah blah blah..." whether it was true or not. 

I would suggest not going into details about why you're leaving, especially if it's because you don't enjoy working there. All your employer needs to know is that you're going, nothing more. If HR want to do an exit interview to understand your reasons for leaving then you can go into it there, assuming you accept their request for an exit interview. You don't have to.

Brie

No - it's a good way to get through a difficult statement without getting sidetracked or bursting into tears or whatever.  I've done this a couple of times in meetings where I wanted to make sure I stuck to what needed to be said.

Best of luck with this meeting and even more luck in semi retirement.  I started mine a couple of years back and have never been so busy in my life!!  Getting ready now to talk to my manager about gearing down and likely passing my baton along to someone who has more enthusiasm for the job.

TELLIT01

Just hand in your notice as normal.  If asked why tell them that you are in a position where you can afford to leave permanent work and semi-retire.

Marcon

AinsleyFatCat said:

Hello  
I'm going to tell my manager soon that I intend to quit my job and go into semi-retirement somewhere else and have formulated what I want to say on paper.
Is it lame to read from my notes during the meeting as I'm sure that it will come out all wrong if I just say it off the top of my head.
Thank you in advance for any opinions

How much are you planning to say? Surely a simple statement that you're going into semi retirement and have found a part time job elsewhere is enough?

AinsleyFatCat

Thanks all  
I wanted to tell to my manager beforehand as I didn't really want to blindside him before forwarding my formal letter to Personnel, especially as there's been quite a few resignations recently within the office for various reasons and I think that it will come as quite a surprise that I'm leaving.  Thanks again for the comments:)

Wyndham

Depending how far in advance you plan to do this, you may want to read this thread where a simliar question was asked....

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6564175/plan-to-quit-job-next-year-informing-manager-in-advance-how-what-say#latest

Marcon

Wyndham said:

Depending how far in advance you plan to do this, you may want to read this thread where a simliar question was asked....

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6564175/plan-to-quit-job-next-year-informing-manager-in-advance-how-what-say#latest

A question posed by someone who, however decent an honourable an individual (and I don't doubt they are both), appears absolutely clueless about commercial reality - especially the voluntary redundancy bit.

Savvy_Sue

AinsleyFatCat said:

Thanks all  
I wanted to tell to my manager beforehand as I didn't really want to blindside him before forwarding my formal letter to Personnel, especially as there's been quite a few resignations recently within the office for various reasons and I think that it will come as quite a surprise that I'm leaving.  Thanks again for the comments:)

If your formal written notice needs to go to Personnel, you could write "cc my manager" on it, and give them their own copy. You can add a personal note saying you'll be sorry to go if you like. Then have your notes ready for if you have to have a conversation - but in reality you don't HAVE to. 

But from that other thread, the strong advice is not to give more notice than your contract says you must.