Resigned from my job, President asked to leave or stay. I chose leave.
I’ve been with my job for 10 years. This month was/is my 10
Year anniversary. I have a manager, but he’s utterly useless, just a body. He was hired about 3 years ago to replace my previous manager. On the company chart, I report to him. But I mostly work under the president of my company. My manager literally has no managerial power over me. ( which sucks, because I really want to expand my knowledge with a good manager )… anytime I have a problem, his answer is “ he doesn’t know, ask the president “… it sucks. The position gets rotated every 2-3 years because it’s just that kind of job. I’ve refused the promotion to that position for the better part of 7 years, as I’ve already seen it as “
Doomed to fail “. So I stay in my lane and just run my portion of the business. I WFH, and my pay is realistically 1/2 of what I should be getting paid. I’ve been working from home since 2022, no raise since then. But I’be justified it, because I’ve been able to watch all of my children come into this world and grow. Albeit they are all under 4… I’ve accepted the trade off. I’ve been looking for jobs that are like 7/7 ( certain amount of days on / off, so when I’m at home, I can just shut everything off. My job is currently 24/7 365 monitoring status, with physical presence required several times a month. I’ve interviews with about a dozen places over the last several years, but there just wasn’t one that I really wanted. Now I have just rcvd an offer to work 3 on 4 off at a pretty good company. I was waiting for the background check to come through and everything else. I finally got the “welcome to the team” I made sure to tell them I needed 1 months notice, so I can do a proper handoff to the next person they would hire.
I went to tell my President. Hey, thanks for all the time hear… truly appreciated… would like to offer 1 month to help transition. On my off time, I can offer contract work if you’d like… I’d be super cheap than having to find a replacement. But my main job is my priority, so if they need backup… please be open to it. As I never had any backup for my job.
He told me there are concerns that we are playing favoritism with having you work from home and that they would not allow me to have a second job. I told them my start date… he said you have to stay or leave. That’s it. I think he thought I was going to do the new job part time? Because I told him… okay I will leave. Then he told me to submit my formal resignation.
I sent the formal resignation to finish at the end on the month. He never countered with anything,.. but he responded by saying thanks for your time here, but don’t forget what you make hear. Insert shitty salary / insert medical bonus… he said for what you provide here, this is competitive.
I hadn’t responded to that message. The date he offered was in a few days. I don’t know if they are going to try and counter offer… but I’m just a little offended that they didn’t counter offer when I first presented the resignation