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[StMarks]

She sells new houses. She's got another job lined up. 7 minutes from where we live, £6k pay rise, better commission, paid mileage, better holiday, more weekends off.

Keep encouraging her Kwacky. If you're lucky enough, and she keeps on up the greasy pole, you may be able to kick back and be her "kept man"

[Cav]

Fantastic! Hopefully more valued there too! Congrats Mrs Kwacky!

[D41]

In other news my wife has handed in her notice

It's amazing what companies can offer you when you tell them you're leaving. Why not look after your staff before they get so pissed off they start to look elsewhere?

Precisely. Whenever I hear of someone being offered 'x' amount more money to stay on in a job, I just take it as they've been underpaid/undervalued up until that point.
That's not the practical reality of running a business, and I get that, but nonetheless that's where my mind always goes.

[Frankie]

Good News for the Kwacky's, awesome. Every company seems to do it, wait until your off before looking after you. I will never understand it. By the time someone has handed in their notice, they have already mentally left anyway!!! And from a companies view, they will now have to spend a fortune in time and money finding the new person or people to fill the space.... All of which I would suspect works out more cost than a bloody decent pay rise in the 1st place.... Let alone all the training needed to get them up to speed.

[kiwikrasher]

I have accepted a job offer, not the Manager one but instead, the mid-senior level Mechanical Design Engineer working in automation and ERP. I'm very excited to start this ASAP!

Glad the right decision made itself apparent and you are excited to get into it. Well done matey.

[Cav]

So frustrated. Handed my notice in, I asked if there was flexibility in my notice period (3 months), my Manager asked when I wanted to leave, I gave a date (6 weeks instead of 12), he agreed and said "leave it with me".

2 days later he tells me I have to work my full notice due to "the nature of the project I'm working on"..... remember that.

Bear in mind my leave period, we have an Engineer in the team who is constantly looking for more work. Since the new year I've been asking to bring him onto my project but it's fallen on deaf ears. I have now handed my notice in and clearly my project is important hence I can't leave early yet this Engineer is still being tasked with mundane shit that is of very little benefit to the team.

I might be completely wrong but it feels like they're deliberately forcing me to stay here for as long as possible and not provisioning to seamlessly hand over the project. 3 months and this Engineer with limited development experience would be ready to hit the ground running when I leave. I'm going to push for him to join my project for this week and next but after that I think I might tell them I'm leaving on my chosen date anyway.

[Kwacky]

The sooner you're out of there the better

[Stonesie]

Once again I have requested to move to day shift... I foresee a re-working of my CV in my near future as I would really like to do a more engineering based job, but with no formal qualifications and being middle aged now I think another driving job will be more realistic.

[C00kiemonster]

So frustrated. Handed my notice in, I asked if there was flexibility in my notice period (3 months), my Manager asked when I wanted to leave, I gave a date (6 weeks instead of 12), he agreed and said "leave it with me".

2 days later he tells me I have to work my full notice due to "the nature of the project I'm working on"..... remember that.

Bear in mind my leave period, we have an Engineer in the team who is constantly looking for more work. Since the new year I've been asking to bring him onto my project but it's fallen on deaf ears. I have now handed my notice in and clearly my project is important hence I can't leave early yet this Engineer is still being tasked with mundane shit that is of very little benefit to the team.

I might be completely wrong but it feels like they're deliberately forcing me to stay here for as long as possible and not provisioning to seamlessly hand over the project. 3 months and this Engineer with limited development experience would be ready to hit the ground running when I leave. I'm going to push for him to join my project for this week and next but after that I think I might tell them I'm leaving on my chosen date anyway.

Unless you need a reference for the new employer I would go when you want to.

Have a chat with your new employer and see how they feel about it. AFAIK All they can do is not pay you, so be clever when you leave.

[Cav]

I went to see my Boss' Boss and hear what he had to say about it all.

His story is very different. Apparently he told my Boss to consider the implications on the business if I stopped working on my project tomorrow, end of march or end of the notice period. My Boss then straight up lied to my face and said "Senior Management have determined you must work your full notice period".

I've explained to Boss Boss that it is pointless and detrimental to me if I stay to work my notice period without any sign of a replacement for me; leaving today and leaving in 3 months has the exact same outcome of the project stopping. Given that one Engineer in our team is looking for projects to pick up it is obvious to me that he should shadow me and I can train him in what to do. I said I'd be happy to do that and if he's competent before the 3 months is over then I can leave early.

Boss Boss has now said, "can you give me the weekend to think about how I handle this situation?".... which I think is fair.

Also, Boss Boss asked me three times if I was going to retract my resignation and would I come back if things didn't go to plan in my new role.

[Kwacky]

That sounds a lot more professional from him than the crap you've been fed from the other guy

[Kwacky]

I had a three day trial listed for the start of next week, so I've been preparing for that and making sure I'm up to date with all of my other work.

Today the court pulled the trial, there's a lack of judges.

So I've got feck all to do next week

[Cav]

Bloody hell.. all that prep for nothing.

[D41]

How much of your prep work will have to be redone when the trial is rescheduled??

[StMarks]

Anything indictable is always a bit of a pain, because you never can really knowingly predict the time CC will take on each.
Fwiw I've been involved in a fraud case, and the Scumbag is still happily free. Latest delay (change of Court location) has the case scheduled for 2028 now ffs.!!!! Last week was the funeral of one of the investors he stole from, she was 82 & imho the stress and upset of her loss was "the final nail in her coffin". She wasn't the first to die since he was uncovered, and if they delay it long enough I reckon a good chunk of them will go the same way long before he gets convicted.
The usual "Justice-vs-the Legal system"..

[Cav]

What is it you do for work @StMarks?

[StMarks]

What is it you do for work @StMarks?

Nothing interesting mate.
How's the exit strategy going for you, to allow you to progress on to you new company Cav ?

[Cav]

Well that statement makes me more intrigued

My Managers Manager is going to come back to me at the start of next week with whether what I've requested will come to fruition. I requested to immediately begin training my colleague to do what I do or I leave, having explained that if that doesn't happen, me leaving now or leaving in 3 months makes zero difference - the project will stop when I leave.

[kiwikrasher]

Getting saved the long commute atm, near the end of the first week of 3 weeks training on the RAAF base 20 mins from home and 8.30 starts rather than 6!

Had a chat to my state manager today and he’s happy for me to be seconded to the RAAF Base full time, but still on the books for Ports. Just have to get passed competent at Ports first and with the understanding if there is a job on they need me for, I’ll head in.

End goal is an offical transfer once a spot turns up. One guy is on second written warning, so that might happened sooner than later

[Kwacky]

Slip some pills in his coffee