This happened today, I'm now home after my last full workday for this company. I resigned from my shitty office job Friday as it had just come to a point where I could no longer cope. We're understaffed and most of the team is new people still in training, and I was doing 2 people's work as the other person left the week before, and I had a separate project to focus on. Last week was one of the worst I've ever had, I've been stressed outta my mind since Wednesday when they implied they were going to fire me (then didn't).
Things were not going well as I had to spend a lot of time trying to fix that project to the expense of other ones. My department's superiors have never been supportive or empathetic and just kept adding to it.
Yesterday I went to HR and asked what would happen if I were to just leave now and not finish my notice. That didn't happen, instead they helped me a bit with that day's work.
Today was just as terrible, but HR asked me if I still wanted to cut my notice short. I pointed out I didn't have another job lined up yet, so they offered me one week's paid leave and today being my last day of work. I'm so burnt out I can barely think, and although not great financially, this seemed like the best idea for now to me so I agreed. This was all done verbally in a face to face meeting with HR; I didn't talk to my manager or the managing director, HR did in a separate meeting.
I've now emailed HR to have the terms in writing and to clarify if I would be paid the holidays I'd accrued, I should hear back tomorrow.
It's not great but I genuinely could not have made it another 3 weeks Did I do the right thing? Should I renegociate the terms or is it too late?
tl;dr : agreed to cut my 4 weeks notice to just 1 week paid leave and have today be my last day, unsure if I did the right thing