A kid from an adjacent department told me that yesterday he gave his notice, and his supervisor asked him to submit a resignation to him (supervisor) before submitting to HR. He (colleague) asked me in private why that would be a relevant request. I'm a manager in my department and the one who handles the bulk of the exit work when someone on my team leaves. Basically I just keep HR in the loop and update the database and it's all good.
I was honest with my colleague that I wasn't sure, but for my own reference I'm curious. Has anyone else heard of this situation? I see all kinds of horror stories here and get them from a lot of the younger folks I hire as well (often they're coming aboard after exiting the service industry). Is this some fresh bureaucratic horror, or just a poorly phrased request open to misinterpretation?