How do you work knowing you are about to leave the company anyway?
By chiyochan
@chiyosan (30186)
Philippines
September 14, 2012 9:43am CST
An encounter with an officemate who has already tendered a resignation brought me to think of sharing and creating this discussion with mylot. Well i have an officemate who is already leaving the company in a weeks time. We were talking about our work tasks and all when he uttered jokingly that "he is leaving anyway" so it does not matter how much more he can add or contribute to the tasks we were assigned to do. I know that he is joking and is very dedicated with his work, and has valuable work ethics.
Actually, I did not think any less of this person who may actually mean what he said - like any other employee who has had some experience with the company that actually led him to move / transfer... it is but expected that we would somehow try to detach ourselves from the company and just be on a relaxed mode until our last day... he he it probably is common to everone, and whether we admit it or not... i think we all have thought and done this ourselves when we were moving, right?!
Please do share... thank you!
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7 responses
@ARIES1973 (11944)
• Legaspi, Philippines
15 Sep 12
when I resigned from my previous job, I made sure that everything was in order. I had created a simple system in the office the time I was still working with it. It was just an ordinary computer-aided filing system which during my time, I thought would lessen my work because I will not be using too much paper. When I have the time to visit the office after several months, I was so happy that they are still using my system. Until now now I know the system is still active and I am so happy with it.
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@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
15 Sep 12
hi there Aries! oh what a great feeling and sense of accomplishment that is. i had one like this too and the team i left still uses our templates that we created before. i guess it was just a matter of time but then they have to upgrade and lost it... i felt good about it still though. ;) sometimes when we do our work, it is not really only about daily task completion it is the overall sense of pride that goes with it. we would not want to think that we have done something we would regret in the company even after we left.
@silverfox09 (4708)
• United States
14 Sep 12
He want to leave the company with is reputation intact , in the future he might need there reference . Life comes with changes and he is being a good sport about it because there are something we cannot change so why not exit gracefully.
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@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
15 Sep 12
hehe that is what i told him, i guess he was just joking and i have told him that your new boss might even know our boss so always remember that the world is small and round and eventually somehow we all get to meet each other and we ran in circles...
@riyauro (6421)
• India
14 Sep 12
well yeah it will be hard to concentrate on work as he knows he is leaving but not all people are same and for some it does not matter whether they leaving or no but they make sure that the work is done. I also would like to leave a company with good impression so that people still talk about me in good way when I am gone. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead. 
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@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
14 Sep 12
When i left my previous companies, my bosses never had anything bad to say to me. even as i was employed with other companies, i was even helping them out for a couple of weeks! it did not matter to me as i think i am doing it not only for the company but for the people who have been nice to me when i was with them. You are correct, it is really up to the person and well it sure is anyone's preference as to how they would be during the process of leaving a company. i wished though everyone would be able to still hold on to the last few days and not try to do anything they would be regretting in the future.
@Raine38 (12387)
• United States
14 Sep 12
I can understand where he's coming from, but of course if I am in that situation, I would like to leave the company in good terms, that they will have a good impression of me even if I'm no longer working there. Wouldn't it be nice if the people there talk about you in a good light? Of course a past work experience will always be a useful reference for when we try to secure a much better job.
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@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
14 Sep 12
that is right. i agree with you that we have to leave the company with a good name. i always say and advise this to my friends who are even having problems with their employers or who have been abused by work, etc to not burn their bridges. i have been with 3 companies, 2 of which i got in because of people i got to know in the other company... it all just is about how we are and how people sees us. if we show our anger, or disappointment it could be used against us.. and it may haunt us eventually even if we transferred to a new company.
@keichan1412 (247)
• United States
14 Sep 12
I work what I usually act, feel and do before I resigned. That's how I handle it. :)
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@kemak28 (724)
• United States
14 Sep 12
It is very very hard to stay motivated in those last days of being employed before you move on either to a different job within the company or completely leaving the company. From my experience in the past when I would be moving onto another position within the company I would be so happy and excited for the new position so it was hard to concentrate on the task at hand. But at the same time I usually liked and respected those that I worked with so I wanted to train the new person to my best ability and help in anyway to leave my work as cleaned up as possible to make things easier on them. I guess that is just my personality. I think I have done that even if I didn't like the people much and hated the job, I just couldn't leave things undone.
Now on the otherhand when I was laid off last year when I was pregnant after working at the company for 11 years I had a much harder time staying focused or even caring about any of it. I had to train the people taking over my job and they had no experience whatsoever so it was a bit frustrating and a real slap in the face. So lets just say I didn't work quite as hard as I could have and really didn't care when it came down to the end.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
14 Sep 12
hi kemak, what you have in you is a great work attitude and work values. I think not many people would be able to do what you have done and even so after knowing you have lost your job to the very people you are training. This, however is part of being employed, even if we are regular employees and tenured, we are not sure as to when our job posts remain secured.
Thank you so much for your sharing of your experience as an employee. I am sure that you have not found it hard to move on and build or continued on with what you have made of yourself in terms of career.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
8 Nov 15
Some people literally refuse to work after tendering resignation.
I think that is very stupid.
They should think of the future when their new company or future prospective employer conducts reference check.
if they show up their bad attitude, their former boss will sabotage their career prospect.
