When resigning are EM employees required to give 2 weeks notice? What happens if you don’t? Does it forfeit anything?
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Have you considered quiet quitting instead? In a lot of cases, management won't even notice.
If you need the two weeks money, give the notice to them. If not, just leave. The kind of courtesy that you expect from them and allow you to stay the two weeks; it is just a dream. It is more disgusting when they use the police to walk you out.Eye for eye, tooth for a tooth.
In my experience, once you tender your two-week notice, you're usually gone that day, the next day, or perhaps the next day. You still get paid for the two weeks, though.
@h7 Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't meaning "announcement" like give me a gold watch. I should have said "how far in advance do I need to tell HR to get all that paperwork done, etc."
Why would you even want to "announce" your retirement?
Just GO!
The only people you need to be in discussions with about it is HR, when arranging for your paperwork to be completed. You can also give your boss a heads up, but I wouldn't even do that until the wheels were already in motion with HR.
You don't owe anyone an announcement, the days of having a retirement party thrown for you with a gold watch given in appreciation are gone, and quite frankly, most of your colleagues couldn't care less about you retiring. They're too anxious about being laid off to be happy for someone who's freeing themself from the rat-race.
Just get everything squared-away with HR, and give the rest of the people at your workplace a good ol' Irish Goodbye!
How long ahead of time do you have to announce your retirement? Any good strategies to share around that? I don't care to come back as a contractor, nor do I care about providing continuity, but I also don't want to lose any benefits.
What about when you retire?
@OP It’s a courtesy. If you’re a FT/W2 employee your employment is on an “at-will” basis. You or EM can walk at anytime. That’s your contract.
I’ve only ever given notice twice. Once I really liked the boss/team and wanted to do a decent hand-off. The other I had a bonus due to be paid out and I didn’t want to burn bridges.
OP you can give your notice the same day. Nobody cares.
The two‑week notice tradition is mostly about courtesy, handover, and leaving on good terms. It’s not a legal requirement, and it’s not “breaking” anything if you choose not to do it—especially if the company hasn’t treated you well or you don’t owe them that level of accommodation.
Not giving notice automatically places you on the not regrettable list when you exit the company. This simply means you won’t be able to be rehired. Should that not bother you, you should give notice the day you need to leave. That way you will be paid out 2 weeks from that date. Little extra for you!
This is like a ghetto Reddit. You can’t listen to half the people here. Best wishes in whatever you decide.
It is a courtesy that exxonmobil doesn't deserve but it's up to you really. If you have a good relationship with your team/manager and care at all about continuity, etc. then give notice. There's a good chance security will walk you off campus the day you give notice, especially if you are leaving to work for a competitor. Just do what you want.