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Apr 2022
11:13pm, 29 Apr 2022
2,136 posts
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Totriornottotri
Cath, LD, love it.
Vrap, good luck - hope they’re looking at each other like 12 o’clock half struck!
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Apr 2022
6:15am, 30 Apr 2022
13,586 posts
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Sigh
Good luck V'rap, in whatever you decide to do.
I think I'd like to take Kerplunk in on my last day. 
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Apr 2022
7:56am, 30 Apr 2022
14,317 posts
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Mandymoo
Good luck V'rap
On my last day I never heard from my boss at all, actually my last week or so was the same. As for his daughter (who was technically taking over as manager) I don't think I spoke to her for my last 6 weeks. Made me feel great after 26 years so really good to be out of what I now see was a very toxic situation
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Apr 2022
7:59am, 30 Apr 2022
61,302 posts
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Lip Gloss
That’s sad MM.
I must admit we give good send off’s to the retiring colleague. The senior GP usually does a speech and you don’t actually do any work.
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Apr 2022
8:00am, 30 Apr 2022
61,303 posts
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Lip Gloss
I said I don’t want that fuss when I leave. I’m an emotional wreck at everyone else’s so god knows what I would be like at my own.
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Apr 2022
8:28am, 30 Apr 2022
57,725 posts
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Velociraptor
Hopefully by flouncing off on an impulse I'll have avoided putting my colleagues in the position of feeling the need to collect for a present and organise a buffet. When I achieve definite closure I'll send them a card and a load of chocolate. Or take them in a box of 100 Nature Valley bars, best before end of May 2022 😉
(They're all shocked, but we were all shocked when Lavender, with whom I'd informally shared the job for the previous three years, left last September and management did nothing to try to keep her. I am sitting on several promises to write references for people.)
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Apr 2022
8:30am, 30 Apr 2022
14,464 posts
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XB
I spent 2 hours with HR on my final day listing all the issues - racism, sexism, bullying, shagging - with the MD.
He later gave a me really nice farewell speech and a bottle of £200 champagne.
I still think he’s a twat.
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Apr 2022
8:36am, 30 Apr 2022
1,377 posts
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arbster
Good luck with whatever's next, V'rap. I've been reading/listening a lot about people "changing gear", recently. Please don't let the manner of your departure detract from the enjoyment of now having the opportunity to choose to do something you find more rewarding.
Flouncing off on an impulse is definitely less effective with a 3-month notice period, but I'm also strongly inclined toward an imminent gear change. Like LG, I dread any kind of send-off, so will try to sneak out of the door, whenever it happens.
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Apr 2022
8:49am, 30 Apr 2022
57,726 posts
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Velociraptor
I left my last partnership with a mandatory three months' notice during which the behaviour that had made me decide to leave escalated until I ended up telling certain colleagues, sometimes in front of other staff, that they were substandard human beings and could go to Hell in a handcart, and enjoyed those few days of having the professional filters off more than I maybe should have done. I've deliberately stayed freelance in my current role because the freedom to flounce mattered more at my age than paid leave and pension contributions, and I was open about that.
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Apr 2022
8:52am, 30 Apr 2022
6,010 posts
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um
I spent my last day driving to Keswick. I was due to finish on 30th April 2017, but was in US and wanted to have completed the flight home before losing all th company insurance etc, so extended to 1-May.
But HR systems couldn't cope with that and moved it to 5th May. But, as I told my boss, I'd got the holiday house booked and I was going ... he'd better wrap everything up well before then.
*in related news, 5 years later, he is now retiring. Have been chatting & mailing about the process and hints/tips etc with him. And also asking the question 'should I have stayed on another 5 years?' - with a fairly easy resounding NO as the answer. Yes, I'd have had a bit more money, but nothing life changing in the way retirement was.
v'rap - hope it goes well, whatever you decide.
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McGoohan