Re: How To Quit Your Job


BMJ wrote:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060823.wcaexit23/BNStory/Business/home


"Take the senior executive at a Toronto advertising company who was
angry with his employer. Rather than discussing his concerns, he
announced his departure in an abrupt voice mail to his boss.

Fifteen months later, he's still looking for a new job, says Stephen
Friedman, an executive career coach and trainer who took on the
executive as a client.

"Within a day, everyone in the business knew how he had left. Those who
have considered hiring him felt he reacted like a child. He was seen as
immature and has been blackballed," says Mr. Friedman, who teaches
organizational behaviour and human resources at the Schulich School of
Business at York University in Toronto.

Such behaviour sparks fear among prospective employers: "How do we know
he won't pick up and leave and do the same stupid thing to us?" Mr.
Friedman adds."

This is true. And if people pull this kind of stuff and think it won't
hurt them down the road, they are sorely mistaken. It's like being in
prison (some of you already equate the two): do your best to keep to
yourself, but DON'T make enemies, or think you can get away with acting
like a jerk. If you don't get jumped in the laundry room, you'll get
what's coming to you back out on the street.

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