Ask HN: Ever told your employer, “I'm considering resigning.”?
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Yes-because it is important to keep a clean distance from finished work.
Work as if you will resign on completion; it will enforce a sense of responsibility to document business processes, code, contacts-you name it.
And where toxic processes or customers do exist, it is important to remember that you have the power to walk away.
Work as if you will resign on completion; it will enforce a sense of responsibility to document business processes, code, contacts-you name it.
And where toxic processes or customers do exist, it is important to remember that you have the power to walk away.
Nope
I only tell them when I actually am
Until then? Why give a reason for them to get rid of me?
I only tell them when I actually am
Until then? Why give a reason for them to get rid of me?
Once I asked my manager if he would be ok with me putting him down as reference. He panicked a little bit. Then I got a bumper bonus.
yes
No. Bad idea.
1. If already fully committed to resigning, to extract some benefit for a few weeks in the interim. Say a conference junket, or deferral of some mandatory training.
2. If part of a powerful group, to extract a better deal from management. I know of some engineers at FAANG that blocked plans for downsizing of cubicles this way.