Work in your typical corporate office non management job, notified manager verbally I would be resigning, last day two weeks from today, and emailed signed letter over stating the standard “I resign from ABC role at XYZ company last day two weeks from today’s date, please let me know what I can do in this time, thank you” basically. Did not state reason why for resignation on the letter as I have not done so in the past and not going to provide the real reasons (it’s management primarily). First response from manager about the news “can you change your mind about leaving?” I said “no”. Next comment “wow I knew there were some bumps in the road and somethings you didn’t agree with, but didn’t realize you were looking elsewhere”. I was placed on a PIP due to false accusations, so will leave it at that for said “bumps” and “disagreements”. There is more, but that was the final straw. Close out the call with “will email you signed letter over shortly”.
Get a call about an hour later from manager and he starts freaking out this is all so sudden and unexpected I’m leaving. Starts by saying I need and am required to provide a detailed reason in my resignation letter and to him also. I said “no”. He then starts trying to get information out of me about where I’m going, what I’m doing, how much I’ll be making, etc, which I was not providing as it’s none of their business. He asks how much they could pay me here and I tell him a number that is double what I’m making now as an “f you” number to stop asking and could not match. He starts going off about it’s a shame I’m leaving for more money. I’m leaving for multiple reasons, this new job is also providing me a 25% pay increase (I will never see that money in current position) and more what I want to be doing in an industry I prefer to be in.
I’m not providing any information and keeping things vague which is frustrating him. Just sticking to “a better opportunity presented itself that I couldn’t turn down” as my reason for leaving. He then asks if I can stay till the end of the month (about 6 weeks from today) because two weeks is unacceptable and very unprofessional of me. I advise “no I cannot, I already have a start date that cannot be pushed out”. He starts yelling at me saying me only giving two weeks is going to cause so much an inconvenience to him since now he has to interview and possibly train someone and that I will be burning bridges here by only giving two weeks (I’m switching industries and have connections if needed from previous roles). He kept saying two weeks is so unprofessional and I am handling this so inconsiderately to such a large company, about 4,500 employees in North America. Told him “I’m sorry you feel that way, but this date will be my last day”. He ended the call stating I needed to revise my letter of resignation and this is a bad career move on my part leaving this way. He emailed me afterwards saying I need to update my resignation to state the reason I’m leaving is for more money (which is not entirely true).
Word started spreading about my departure and received comments “so sad to see you go but understand” and “the good ones don’t stay” from some colleagues so far. The team I will be leaving has a high turnover rate also (I wonder why). I already know I’ll be listed as “unrehireable” (oh no), but I really do not know why he is being persistent and taking the time for all this. He already put me on a PIP, went out of his way micromanaging, and creating a paper trail to set me up for firing, I’m giving you what you want and not sure why he’s surprised on this resignation.