Long story short, I’ve basically been told I’m most likely going to be fired after a phone scam incident at work. The thing is, after implying I’m almost definitely going to be fired (they wouldn’t explicitly tell me even after I directly asked them if that is the most likely outcome) they told me an official decision would not be reached probably for a few days.
I already have plans to be moving and would have to leave this job anyway because my new place would be too far away. Even though I’m not moving for another month or so, I considered quitting earlier before new management takes over. But I didn’t, and now I’ve found myself in this situation. I now just keep thinking though, why am I just sitting here waiting to be fired from a job that I was going to leave soon anyway? That would make it so much harder for me to find a job if they ask why I left my last job and I have to tell them I was fired. There are a couple reasons I am worried about quitting, though.
The first is that the company opened investigations on the scammer and I am worried that if I quit while this is going on, the company is going to turn around and try to accuse me of making it up and trying to steal from the company or something out of spite or because they genuinely think that’s why I quit. I talked to the scammer on a company phone for the most part, though, but I don’t know if they would keep records of phone calls or not.
And the second thing is that I would want to quit effective immediately so that they can’t fire me, but I don’t want to leave without giving two weeks notice because that makes me look bad and also my direct boss is a good person and I don’t want to do that to them. If I give two weeks notice, though, then they can still fire me, right? And if they do fire me after I’ve given two weeks notice, then in the end does that technically count as me quitting or me being fired? Would I still have to put on applications that I was fired?