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Your company probably has a policy covering retirement procedures that addresses this. Not being snarky but might be helpful to read the rules like what benefits carryover and so on. Mine is very specific you can only retire day 1 of the month for example. Eliminates the possibility for me to leave on my actual birthday, darn it!
I plan on giving notice December 15th with an exit date of January 31st. I can't give notice earlier than 12/15, as my boss will lower or eliminate my yearly bonus.
It will not be pretty when I give notice. I have no back up on my job -- nobody wants to do it (and there are only 4 of us support people left). In addition to paralegal duties, I also do the billing for the whole firm and this includes about 6 different online billing systems that all have different criteria for submission. It will be a stretch to get someone trained in one month's billing cycle, but it's not my problem. I've asked for backup for years.
I'm not staying a minute past 1/31/18 at 4:30 p.m. I've waited decades to have a life and I'm not giving any lawyer another minute of my precious time.
Oh how I can relate to this. I worked for lawyers for 26 of my 31 years of federal service.
Your company probably has a policy covering retirement procedures that addresses this. Not being snarky but might be helpful to read the rules like what benefits carryover and so on. Mine is very specific you can only retire day 1 of the month for example. Eliminates the possibility for me to leave on my actual birthday, darn it!
Policy is a strict "at-will", in my case. The jingle keeps going around in my head..."You asked for it, you got it! Toyota!!" (??? not sure if I got the brand right). Anyway, I do not owe anybody an explanation of what I am doing the day after, least of all a mechanistic environment which reminds their workforce of the "at-will" symmetrical nature of the employment relationship. Just my opinion, YMMV.
A friend of mine decided to retire. After having a long career working at various places he decided to give them a courtesy two weeks notice. Because he's been fired or laid off with no notice at some places.
I gave a month's notice and they said company policy is two weeks. I left after two weeks on good terms and they paid me until the end of the month anyway.
If the company has an employee handbook just look and see what that says.
Your company probably has a policy covering retirement procedures that addresses this. Not being snarky but might be helpful to read the rules like what benefits carryover and so on. Mine is very specific you can only retire day 1 of the month for example. Eliminates the possibility for me to leave on my actual birthday, darn it!
In the new style of biz, "retirement" is no different than any other separation. Hence, I shall extend symmetrical courtesies. Again, nobody is entitled to know why I am leaving, or what I'm doing the day after.
If the company wants longer notice, it might be have been wise to structure programs to incentivize longer notice. As is, I am vested in the 401K and 11 years short of a subsidy on health insurance. That, for a plan that's less cost-effective than one I can find on my own.
Especially when the info will, at best merely be gossip fodder.
Operated mailroom and delivered goods received from national carriers. After a decade was barred from vacation for a certain month. Then yet another. Being summertime and work in slowest motion of the year, the reasoning was weak.
After several years more non-specific duties were added that another department handled. Didn't complain. Performance reviews found only small issues that needed adjustments.
Long term planning in place, after eight vacation days, called HR with my sudden and without notice resignation. A right to work state and being nearly eight years from traditional retirement age, no one was the wiser.
Retired to area often visited and have no regrets. Had there been a professional approach toward my time off requests this would not have occurred. Special approval was needed so accumulation beyond maximum vacation time was allowable.
Wanted the time off. Payout for this was received but from a different financial institution.
Each situation has specific circumstances. Under my rung of the blue collar ladder this is how mine ended. Employees like a bit of respect and when this is not forthcoming...
...Employees like a bit of respect and when this is not forthcoming...
Pretty much THIS - I think this applies to pretty much any work situation - if employers don't show respect towards an employee, why should the employee care whether or not there's good turn-over when he or she leaves? Obviously, the message received from the employer was that the employee was not valued, therefore, it logically follows that no turnover to the replacement/backfill is needed, since the employee obviously has no value and is not needed.
I gave them three months notice,but actually left earlier due to some unforeseen issues. I think 1-3 months is plenty.
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Pretty much THIS - I think this applies to pretty much any work situation - if employers don't show respect towards an employee, why should the employee care whether or not there's good turn-over when he or she leaves? Obviously, the message received from the employer was that the employee was not valued, therefore, it logically follows that no turnover to the replacement/backfill is needed, since the employee obviously has no value and is not needed.
