I was recruited for this job. At first I didn’t accept the terms for hire but since it was only part time, I took it because I was told this would lead to full time employment and possibly promotion after a year, which is the terms I agreed to.
Instead, they started asking me to come in on my days off, often when I already had plans and always at the last minute ,as well as pressuring me to pitch in money for various outside events that I wasn’t even a part of.
I was made to feel guilty and “not a team player” if I didn’t agree to this.
After about a year and a half of this, and having been denied a transfer on the grounds of: “why would I want to lose a perfectly good employee to another branch?” I decided to quit.
I was surprised when the manager started literally yelling at me, demanding to know why I would want to leave and how ungrateful I was being for even suggesting it.
She wouldn’t even let me explain myself, so I finally said I was living for my health and it was a private matter which seemed to be the only explanation she would accept.
The next morning, (before my shift would have started) I received a letter that said they had given it some thought and had decided they would “accept” my resignation.
Now, I’ve never experienced anything like this before. But from the sounds of it, if they hadn’t accepted it, they would have just expected me to keep showing up?
It makes no sense to me, so I was just wondering if something similar has happened to anyone else?
Netizens’ comments
- No, they can’t just say “no, you can’t quit”. That’s a movie thing, not reality
- Boy are they in for a surprise when you’re not there one day!
- You have the right to resign. You gave notice that you were resigning. This just shows how petty they are by saying they have accepted your resignation.