I am asking just out of interest and to avoid such situations in the future.
I had a situation some time back. I was assigned to work for a client that felt really draining, I was still during my probation.
After one month I felt that I can't do this anymore, I asked my manager to leave this client and project and be assigned to anything else.
He got back to me and told me that they don't have anything else for me and it was my choice. Accordingly, I have to resign within one hour. I told him, he should terminate, he said it would be bad for my records.
Is it legal to ask someone to resign this way?
Is it really bad for the employee's record to get terminated?
What if I would have resisted and refused to resign?
Anyway, luckily, I found another job within less than a month, been there for quite some time.
Yes, move on.... and be glad it was resolved easily in you finding a new job....
The fact is that you asked to be removed from the job, hoping to be reassigned. So in that sense, you initiated the process of resigning the job.
My understanding is that if you resign, you pay a penalty in terms of RAV (1-3 months without RAV support). Under that light, it's better to be fired... I may be wrong.
Even better would be to get yourself gracefully fired i.e. negotiate and leave with a package and positive reference letter.
I was still in my probation, so probably nothing much to get.
Absolutely never resign if asked, always make them fire you. Otherwise you get penlized on RAV.
What utter illogical nonsense is this? He asked to be released from working for one client project, not to be released from his employment with his company. People ask to be reassigned all the time if they hate a project or client. It is not at all the same "beginning the process of resigning" and to suggest so is genuinely silly.
But yeah, doing it in your probation period is not very smart if you want a future at a company. Next time wait 3 months.
Yes
No. It's recognised that sometimes things don't work out, or companies need to restructure etc. My guess is that he wanted you to resign, so he didn't look bad for being unable to retain staff.
He would have to sack you, insist you continue with your current project or reassign you.
Of course, if he'd gone for the middle one, you'd have had no recourse other than to kunckle down or resign.
For the career I've always thought it's in your favor as it shows you're a responsible and reliable employee. If you discover you can't carry on with the responsibilities, either being unable or being unhappy, resign early otherwise in the long term you'll bring loses to your employer and suffer health consequences such as stress, burnout. If a next potential employer "doesn't buy" your story it's most likely an employer you want to avoid, otherwise the situation would repeat. However in large companies the hiring team and their policies might be skewed as they are detached from the actual manager hiring you
You're in your probation period with a 7 days notice. I think your employer offered you a way out as being fired in your probation period doesn't look so good.
It depends. The probation period is for both sides to decide if the working relationship is going to have a future. Sure, if someone resigns or is let go during the probation period several times in a row, this might raise alarm bells in the mind of a prospective employer.
On the other hand, everything could have been sweetness and light during the interview process and the manager shows their "Mr Hyde" side once the employee has started, or the conditions are not the ones negotiated / signed for. We've seen a few of those on here.
In my case, long time ago I signed a contract at an employer in Amsterdam, gave my resignation at my existing employer and about a week later while I was working my notice at the old employer, the new employer had the official receiver turn up to initiate bankruptcy. It was too late to rescind my resignation so I started working at the new employer.
The environment at new employer was quite toxic given the circumstances, and as a matter of luck I had another opportunity lined up which I was able to take up during the probationary period. So I was only at that particular gig for about a month and a half.
These things happen.
Cheers,
Nick
I've never had to resign during notice period, but I've been turned down by HR firewall a few times by asking very directly about how things are and what I won't tolerate. I must agree, the HR logic makes sense, for every position and conditions there's a perfect candidate out there. Let's take an extreme example (at least for me), a sewage cleaner, I would rather commit suicide if I had to do that kind of job, but people are doing it and live a normal life.