Hi! I’ve been lurking on this page for a while. I have been hesitant to post because I’ve read about backlash from employers who read this and I have no way of knowing if my current one does, but I am fairly easily identifiable by my profile.
I decided in January that I am going to move from the Northeast US to the Midwest. My company has fully remote teams and those teams have members in other states, I am partly remote in the office 3 days and home 2. I reached out to my manager and asked if I could stay on. He wanted me to, and his superior also approved this decision but told him he had to kick it up to HR. This was in January. He emailed HR right away. A few weeks later he had followed up twice and finally gotten a response that they are not currently set up in that state but they would investigate further. Back and forth for two months before they finally told him that they could not support the move. So now with two months before I move I am job hunting and apartment hunting.
Well I got an offer today and plan to resign Monday (I had today and tomorrow off preplanned). I am conflicted. I like my team, my manager, and my job, but my new start date is the 18th, which only leaves a week. I had wanted to take a week off between jobs but since the start date is firm I don’t have the time, so my plan is split the difference. To meet with him Monday and work through Wednesday. But I feel bad leaving him and my team in a tough spot because inventory is high.
Anyway I’ve been wanting to vent about how HR handled this for awhile so here I am.