Two Week Notice....

Well, I'm pulling a Cheese. Tonight I'll be drafting up a two week notice letter to my employer, brining an end to my 8 year stint drawing prisons, college dorms and police stations on lower State Street.

The short story:

Three years ago, 28 employee architectural firm, $150+ million in project annually for 5 years. CEO and Vice retire.

Three years, no raises, no reviews, no direction from the guys who were supposed to step up and carry the torch for the company. Benefits rolled back, no contributions to profit sharing, employees laid off, general office malaise setting in.

Now? 8 employees (with 4 principals....who refuse to take pay cuts), haven't got a million dollar project in 8 months, in-fighting w/ principlas, clients no re-hiring for jobs that used to be slam-dunks.

I got the call today from my top-ranked option - a high-profile, design-oriented firm in Brattle Square in Cambridge. They even offered me 5 grand more than I was looking for!!! Mad benefits, great location, summer hours, bi-annual performance bonuses, better pay - I'm f*ing pumped! I'm most happy, though, about my new, narrower job description - Job Captain. At my current job, I do all the IT, all the CAD management, all the drawing, all the low/mid-level office management (telecom, supplies, blah, blah). The small company jack-of-all-trades to the big company, focus on your "real" job thing is going to be exciting.

Now, On to the Pub to celebrate, then on to home to write the damn letter!!!! Wish me luck!!!! :rockin:

Congrats bro. Sounds awesome!

CHEERS!!


Thats got to be a great feeling

Congratulations man! Sounds like an awesome new gig.

I'll tip one for ya tonight!

Ize

Congrats....calling in sick for the last 2 weeks???

cool beans, best of luck at the new place

Awesome, dude! Congrats!

You can't see this, but ...

Imagine a short bar just above your head. Grab the bar. Pull shield down over face.

Eject!!!!!!!

Man, oh man, you hit the jackpot there! Reason enough to celebrate! Congrats on your good fortune. More $$$ and less putting out fires around the office!

Yep, congrats! How the F does a company pull in $150m annual with 28 people and F that up so badly? No mind that's the past and now look forward to the future!

congrats you get the good news.
i got the bad this week - my place is closing my store(john deere dealership)
and i am being transferred to one 20 miles farther away.
same pay, higher fuel cost and at least another hour per day in transit

You go Boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life is to short go for the gusto...........Damn sounds beer commercial.

Congrats....are you going to light them up in your farewell letter?:rockin:

You should at least come in drunk on your last day.

You're pulling a WHAT?

Firey Sword said:

Well, I'm pulling a Cheese.

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Go For It

Congrats, man! I am happy that you are escaping!!

Who's pulling whose cheese????

Change is a good thing - Good on ya'

Congrats man Best to ya! I know what your going through I did that simalar type of thing about 3 years ago. yeah good move, move on.

Despite pumbaa's cheese, i was actually referring to our cheese's job switch thread a month or two ago! thanks for the replies - i pulled into work today all ready to go and.....lo and behold.....3 of my 4 bosses are out at 'meetings'.

i'm going for the 'high road' tactic in the notice, but i'm prepared to go ape**** when they try to weasle out of the 18 vacation days they owe me for.....and profit sharing for last year.

well, i guess i'll jess hafta poke 'round this a here forum till they git back, iffen they do at all.

Not his cheese, his keys.

Sorry, couldn't resist throwing in a Student Bodies quote.

COngrats, man. Best O Luck.

hey cool man. I wish I could do that. I am too friggin specialized though, or at least I think I am. I think at this point in my life nothing would do it for me other than opening my own business.

That is sweet. You should just no show, and when they call you say; "oh yeah, forgot to tell you... I quit!" Just like winning the lottery.


Of course, I wouldn't follow my own advice...

hey FWIW,
I was thinking about this last night . . .
When I quit my factory job to join the fire dpeartment I gave them 2 weeks notice just out of respect and because I thought it was the right thing to do. 30 seconds after I did so I was escorted to my machine told to clean up my tool box hand in my uniforms, patted down, and escorted off the premises . . .

Just something to think about