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posted by martyb on Sunday September 25 2016, @08:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-this-job-and... dept.

Most everybody has been there: you've decided to quit your job and now you have to inform your employer that you're leaving. So what is the best way to resign?

Turns out, there are generally seven ways in which people quit their jobs, and there are two key factors that determine whether a person resigns in a positive way or in a way that could have damaging consequences for the business, new research from Oregon State University shows.

[...] Through a series of studies, including interviews with employees and employers, the researchers found that generally, employees quit in one of seven ways:

  • By the book: These resignations involve a face-to-face meeting with one's manager to announce the resignation, a standard notice period, and an explanation of the reason for quitting.
  • Perfunctory: These resignations are similar to "by the book" resignations, except the meeting tends to be shorter and the reason for quitting is not provided.
  • Grateful goodbye: Employees express gratitude toward their employer and often offer to help with the transition period.
  • In the loop: In these resignations, employees typically confide in their manager that they are contemplating quitting, or are looking for another job, before formally resigning.
  • Avoidant: This occurs when employees let other employees such as peers, mentors, or human resources representatives know that they plan to leave rather than giving notice to their immediate boss.
  • Bridge burning: In this resignation style, employees seek to harm the organization or its members on their way out the door, often through verbal assaults.
  • Impulsive quitting: Some employees simply walk off the job, never to return or communicate with their employer again. This can leave the organization in quite a lurch, given it is the only style in which no notice is provided.

The by the book and perfunctory resignations are the most common, but roughly one in 10 employees quits in bridge-burning style. Avoidant, bridge burning and impulsive quitting are seen as potentially harmful resignation styles for employers.

In addition, the researchers found that managers were particularly frustrated by employees who resigned using bridge burning, avoidant or perfunctory styles, so employees who want to leave on good terms should avoid those styles, Klotz said.

Have any Soylentils seen employees quit in notable or epic ways?


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @11:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @11:29AM (#406220)

    I worked for a small company whose business model consisted of replacing company and state phone numbers with premium rate phone numbers; think tax office, welfare, utilities, telecoms, insurance, banks etc. It was a matter of putting them all on a directory website then getting said numbers to the top of Google search results, hence commission from the resulting calls. At first, the manager/co-owner claims it's all legitimate - great writing and good, clean web design equals prominence, equals revenue.

    With time and evermore duties given to yours truly (job creep), it became obvious that revenue was mostly down to 'black hat SEO' link building techniques. This consists of buying or otherwise garnering spurious links to effectively jump the queue; ranking top for as many profitable numbers as possible, as fast as possible. Partly these measures were taken due to certain companies mailing takedown notices for trademark misuse, but mostly it was for the cash.

    The shady back linking reached the point where we'd seek out expired domains still receiving .gov and .ac links (these have plentiful link authority under Google's algorithm), then registering them en masse. After that, we threw on some token good content so Google indexed them, waited awhile, then slowly drip fed the link authority: pointing it onto the various number sites. Thus page rankings boosted, revenue boosted.

    One day I casually asked how things were going, whereupon said manager shows me a chart. From said chart I was able to work out that the business was bringing in roughly $75-80k each month in commission revenue, and rising fast. It could still at least double, he said proudly.

    A week later, I sent an email requesting a small stake hold in the business in lieu of my pay - at this point I was doing the lion's share of the donkey work and website housekeeping, far beyond the original criteria under which I was hired at $3000/mo. Kept it polite and formal, and didn't budge. Eventually the dude lost his cool, started ranting about how I ought to know my place, how anyone can do my job, he's doing me a favour etc.

    So I quit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @08:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @08:58PM (#406388)

    Did they go under not long after?

    Did you start your own equivalent of that business and run them out of business?

    Did your next job pay better?

    Have it ever come back to bite you in the ass?