31 Years and this is the thanks I get

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Was just looking at the news and come across this.......

No recognition, no party, not even a handshake.
"Well, after 31 years at TTC, this is my retirement party," he says in a bitter video rant posted online, filming a room of empty chairs.
"This is my last day on the job and there is not a soul here, absolutely nobody."
The disgruntled Toronto Transit Commission employee filmed his departing thoughts on what was arguably a difficult day for the retiree.
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How would you be ?, Personally I think I would rather that than a party with all the co-workers.

Has anybody got a departing story......bad or good
 
Anyone who thinks their job is about looking forward to their retirement party is misguided. I do agree after 31 years something should have been organised but if I were in that position I'd gather my close work mates up and organise a beer at the local drinking hole.
 

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CLUBMEDhurst said:
Serves him right, workin' at the same place for that long, sheesh!

My departing story, shagging the psych registrar on my last day :D
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Interesting take on the 'exit interview' there! :p
 
CLUBMEDhurst said:
Serves him right, workin' at the same place for that long, sheesh!

My departing story, shagging the psych registrar on my last day :D
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Congrats, fine piece of art she was too. :drunk:

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Maybe the fact that none of his co workers showed up suggests that the guy wasn't a very likable person to begin with.
 
I really liked the way I left my job at the Adelaide Casino before I moved to Melbourne. I was there nearly 5 years, and the place was full of people who were 'going to leave soon' -- It's all you really heard from half the employees, and most had been there a long time

Anyway, there was one particular workmate who I didn't get on with that well, and the feeling was mutual. Words weren't ever said and it wasn't a real problem, sometimes two people just don't get along. I had a month's annual leave coming up and it was only a couple of weeks before that started that I decided to move to Melbourne.

I had four days of work that final week before the annual leave, and I was working with the guy I didn't like for three of them. On the third day after we finished, and he had left, that's when I went into management to give them my four weeks notice. The next day, my final day there, I told everyone I was leaving and said goodbye and all. No extended, drawn out "I'll be leaving soon" bullshit that happened with so many other people and the best part was that I never had to say goodbye to the guy I never really liked and have to deal with any fake 'good luck' kind of rubbish. He would've come into work the next week and suddenly I'd be never coming back -

Loved it
 
radiojake said:
I really liked the way I left my job at the Adelaide Casino before I moved to Melbourne. I was there nearly 5 years, and the place was full of people who were 'going to leave soon' -- It's all you really heard from half the employees, and most had been there a long time

Anyway, there was one particular workmate who I didn't get on with that well, and the feeling was mutual. Words weren't ever said and it wasn't a real problem, sometimes two people just don't get along. I had a month's annual leave coming up and it was only a couple of weeks before that started that I decided to move to Melbourne.

I had four days of work that final week before the annual leave, and I was working with the guy I didn't like for three of them. On the third day after we finished, and he had left, that's when I went into management to give them my four weeks notice. The next day, my final day there, I told everyone I was leaving and said goodbye and all. No extended, drawn out "I'll be leaving soon" bullshit that happened with so many other people and the best part was that I never had to say goodbye to the guy I never really liked and have to deal with any fake 'good luck' kind of rubbish. He would've come into work the next week and suddenly I'd be never coming back -

Loved it
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Nothing wrong with that IMO. As the saying goes if you don't have anything nice to say....
 
Favourite one was putting off my resignation a few days as I got invited to a corporate weekend (was relatively junior, but dealt with a lot of management types in my role), porked a hot married director from interstate (I was 21) and then resigned on the monday to take a job with a rival company for more money.
 

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PoppedCorn said:
nothing like asking for two weeks annual leave, getting it approved and then on the last day before your holidays about half hr before you clock off you hand over the two weeks notice youve had to put in writing
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can confirm that it is a good feeling - especially when you're still getting paid for a couple of weeks because it's your 'annual leave' :thumbsu:
 
Went to work for opposition companies twice in my career.
Both businesses I was with at the time had a 4 week notice period.
When I handed in my 4 weeks notice the directors said it was okay but as I was going to the opposition did they mind if I finished up immediately. Of course not, 4 weeks pay for doing nothing was brilliant.
1 thing I've always insisted on though, when you resign do it with integrity and do not burn your bridges. You will always need references.
 
Crash Davis said:
Went to work for opposition companies twice in my career.
Both businesses I was with at the time had a 4 week notice period.
When I handed in my 4 weeks notice the directors said it was okay but as I was going to the opposition did they mind if I finished up immediately. Of course not, 4 weeks pay for doing nothing was brilliant.
1 thing I've always insisted on though, when you resign do it with integrity and do not burn your bridges. You will always need references.
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Can confirm, I've had jobs in the past that I would not have landed if it wasnt for my references.

In saying that, this is a good read

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/c..._whats_the_best_way_youve_ever_quit_your_job/
 
Resigned from Centrelink the day I completed a 6 month probation period and was granted a permanent position. My Manager was gob smacked, and just kept saying "But, but you're permanent"

Unfortunately, the reality of working there permanently was just too much to handle.

To make it better it was just before Christmas and I had a few days leave and a flex day booked so only had two days to work out my notice period and I had been offered another job that didn't start until the beginning of February - GOLD!
 
going back 5 or 6 years ago now, i was a network admin at a reasonably well known retail chain. i'd been unhappy there for about 18 months and had finally applied for and accepted a new job. it was monday night that I found out I had secured this job, so tuesday was all about building the balls up to hand in my notice, which i'd typed up the night before.

as soon as i got in, i took the letter out of my bag and put it in my desk drawer, and built up the courage to deliver this news. this had been a role i was in for 8 years, and the first job i've resigned from, so naturally i was a little nervous about doing this.

2pm rolls around and i ask to setup a meeting with my manager for an hours time

at 2:10pm, the CEO asks to see me in the main board room.

turns out, i was being made redundant that day. redundancy pay and pro rata payout of approx 34 weeks salary.

my manager escorted me out of the building after clearing my desk out. i started my new job 2 days later.

feltgoodman
 
grouse mate said:
This the problem with people that work one job for way too long, they think of work as a social club rather than a workplace.
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Considering you spend roughly half your waking hours, 5 out of 7 days, with the same people, I don't think that's an unreasonable mindset.
 
I left a Government job a couple of years ago that I'd been doing for about 4 years. So not a long time, but relatively long by public service standards.

For years I went to every stupid lunch, I put money in every stupid envelope, and I signed every stupid going away card...

And after all that, they couldn't be arsed doing a going away lunch for me - they tacked it onto someone elses that had already been planned. Which ended up being a full week before I was leaving, so they said they'd do the present next Friday (the day that I left).

Next Friday came and went with no present... so the cake that I took in for myself was "accidentally" dropped on the floor, the cream was tipped into the bottom of a filing cabinet that was never, ever opened... and I threw a pretty good "work grenade" all in my last hour at that job, which would've taken at least a whole day for someone to try and put the pin back in :D

I didn't care. I hated most of the people there. I already had another job in a wildly different sector. I knew 6 months into my 4 year public service career that I hated that job, and so when I got out I knew I was never going back.

I knew the day I left the public service would be a great one. The way they treated me, and the way I responded made it even better :D
 
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