Took a new job, need ideas on telling the current job the news:

[Duck-Stew]

Got a good job now, but I just can't really wait for it to 'take off' as the manager promised.  Plus, it's the same old mechanical fixin' I've been doing for years...w/zero new mental challenges.  

Took a better job this morning!  Less $ initially, but after a year...current job won't be able to touch it.  Benefits, office, workin' my grey-matter instead of my muscles...  Nice.  

Current job has invested in me heavily w/regard to employment costs, tools, supposedly uniforms have been ordered, there's talk of business cards, and my company credit card showed up today...  I've been w/this job for 3 weeks and their corporate offices are out of state.

I am feeling a bit guilty w/regard to my decision to leave, but hey...seriously?  

I'm an 'at will' employee... (checked the manual)  
They could let me go at any time...  
I can go at any time...  
I have no familial support so I *have* to make it here in this state by myself...  (got my DMF support though!) 

Nothing about those 4 statements is making me feel less guilty (or by an appreciable amount).


Here's where y'all come in:  How would you put it to the current job that their only employee in this state is quitting in 2 weeks?

[Kopfjager]

I appreciate all that you have done for me, but I have been offered another job that will allow me to
utilize all the skills that I have developed over my lifetime.

[The Bacon Junkie]

Tell 'em your van broke down and you can't afford to fix it because the hours aren't there yet and you can't wait for things to "take off" as they keep promising.

Or just tell them you got a cushier job for better pay.  Ask them if they can do $10.00 more an hour than what they're currently paying you and guarantee you 40 hrs a week starting now.  

When they say no, there's 7 little words you have to say:
I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.

Repeat this in response to whatever they come back with.

[zzilla]

Hire a barbershop quartet to sing them the news!

[RAT900]

Tell them that you had applied for a variety of jobs when you first landed in ABQ including a long-shot one in your chosen field that you did not expect to pan out and you had dismissed as a possibility.

But since it has come in,, you cannot in good conscience pass it up as you will always wonder how it would have worked out. 

And this opportunity has unfortunately placed you in a position where staying put would be a disservice to both yourself and them (your current employer).

Let them rant rave or do whatever they choose to do...it is not your concern...if they are less than gracious make the beast with two backs them anyway,

remember this at all times....to thine own self be true.....nothing is more important

don't live your life according to how others feel about you...that is a recipe for misery and resentment

put on the thick skin for this one

[Kopfjager]

^^^ What Rat said, pay no attention to my suggestion. 

[badgalbetty]

I have found in my own life ,no matter how hard it may be to tell the truth, it is always better to tell the truth. If you remain true to what you believe and what you know to be true then you will succeed in whatever endeavor you set your hand to. Congratulations on your new job!

[RAT900]

I have found in my own life ,no matter how hard it may be to tell the truth, it is always better to tell the truth.

a lot easier than trying to remember what particular crock of shit you had previously fed to someone....

"web-of-lies management" is mentally exhausting...

or as they say...

you never have to remember what you said if you told the truth

[DucofWestwood]

I have found in my own life ,no matter how hard it may be to tell the truth, it is always better to tell the truth.

well said. 

the reality is, yeah, your current employer may be a little pissed, but they'll get over it.  you gotta do what's best for you b/c no one else will.  if they give you a hard time about it, that's their problem, not yours.  if the tables were turned and you had a good guy working for you who left to pursue a much better opportunity, you wouldn't take it personally or hold it against him, right?  you'd be understanding and wish him well.

don't be so hard on yourself.  the reality is you're a good employee just for thinking about things this way.  there are a lot of people who, in your shoes, would simply stop showing up and resign via a voicemail to their boss.

congrats on finding a new gig!

[stopintime]

Congratulations on a better job - you deserve it

You must have challenges, or else you stop living. That's who you are - we all know that.

The problem you're expressing is just proof you're a caring person. Nothing wrong with that.

[Monsterlover]

Write them a poem:

Roses are red
violets are blue

I got a better job
and I'm leaving.



Congrats! 

[KnightofNi]

i say get really drunk and call your boss.

it'll come out eventually.

[ungeheuer]

I'm an 'at will' employee...
They could let me go at any time...  
I can go at any time...  

If it suited them to let you go, do you think they'd be wringing their hands wondering how to break it to you ?  You'd be out on your arse. Thanks very much. Piss off.

This is the free market.  In which you just made a better bargain.  "Thankyou. However I intend to terminate my employment as @....."  Is all that's required IMHO.

[Duck-Stew]

Congratulations on a better job - you deserve it

You must have challenges, or else you stop living. That's who you are - we all know that.

The problem you're expressing is just proof you're a caring person. Nothing wrong with that.

Thanks Lars!  I guess I hadn't looked at my relationship w/challenges before like that but you're right.  I'm ALWAYS pushing some envelope...

i say get really drunk and call your boss.

it'll come out eventually.

Quit drinkin' so that's out...

well said. 

the reality is, yeah, your current employer may be a little pissed, but they'll get over it.  you gotta do what's best for you b/c no one else will.  if they give you a hard time about it, that's their problem, not yours.  if the tables were turned and you had a good guy working for you who left to pursue a much better opportunity, you wouldn't take it personally or hold it against him, right?  you'd be understanding and wish him well.

don't be so hard on yourself.  the reality is you're a good employee just for thinking about things this way.  there are a lot of people who, in your shoes, would simply stop showing up and resign via a voicemail to their boss.

congrats on finding a new gig!

True that! ^^^     Yeah, ^^^ that right there!

Hire a barbershop quartet to sing them the news!

Hmmmm....  Not bad.  But probably a might expensive...

I appreciate all that you have done for me, but I have been offered another job that will allow me to
utilize all the skills that I have developed over my lifetime.

That's actually quite succinct!  I'll surely use part of that...

Tell them that you had applied for a variety of jobs when you first landed in ABQ including a long-shot one in your chosen field that you did not expect to pan out and you had dismissed as a possibility.

But since it has come in,, you cannot in good conscience pass it up as you will always wonder how it would have worked out. 

And this opportunity has unfortunately placed you in a position where staying put would be a disservice to both yourself and them (your current employer).

Let them rant rave or do whatever they choose to do...it is not your concern...if they are less than gracious make the beast with two backs them anyway,

remember this at all times....to thine own self be true.....nothing is more important

don't live your life according to how others feel about you...that is a recipe for misery and resentment

put on the thick skin for this one

I agree...  I have to do what's right for me, cuz nobody else will...

[Duck-Stew]

If it suited them to let you go, do you think they'd be wringing their hands wondering how to break it to you ?  You'd be out on your arse. Thanks very much. Piss off.

This is the free market.  In which you just made a better bargain.  "Thankyou. However I intend to terminate my employment as @....."  Is all that's required IMHO.

True.  If it suited them, I'd be gone w/o any deliberation either!