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I resigned in September and gave zero advance notice.

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Titra Hamilton

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I resigned in September and gave zero advance notice. My resignation email sent on a Sunday night went something like, "I'm resigning effectively immediately to take care of urgent personal matters that require my immediate attention. I understand that, per section X of the employee handbook that failure to provide two weeks advance notice may make me ineligible for rehire. I understand that per section Y of the employee handbook, I will receive payment for unused PTO. Please let me know how to return mmy company issued equipment. If you have any questions, my preferred method of communication is via email at [insert email address]. You may forward correspondence to [insert mailing address]. Thank you." All was well. With that employer, I didn't give a damn about burning bridges. Some need to be torched. Good luck.

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  1. Kris Wolfram

    Did the company respond and ask why you are leaving?? You may not worry about burning a bridge at this company, but the world is smaller than you think, so it could be an issue later.

  2. Titra Hamilton

    It took almost two business days to receive a response to my resignation email. True, the world is small. My track record speaks for itself even with my past employer. My efforts directly contributed to $4M of new growth and $1.5M in organic growth. I wrote assets that did not exist prior. Consider my intellectual property and sales numbers as a parting gift to a toxic environment that paid me late four times in nine months I worked there. I also pulled an all-nighter, and typically worked to 2:00AM once weekly. If a perspective future employer chooses to ignore that level of productivity, then I don't want to work there. Lastly, I am confident that I would be expected to work myself to dust. An environment that toxic and full of broken promises does not deserve an iota of my time and talent. I slept happily that night, warmed by the bridge I torched.

  3. Anonymous

    Out of curiosity - did you mean this as a reply to another post or just putting this out there?

  4. Titra Hamilton

    It was meant to be a reply to another post.

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