I’m looking for a resignation method now that Honeywell doesn’t pay earned 401k matching, accrued vacation, etc.
Normally someone would provide 2 weeks notice, complete tasks which are difficult to transfer, train coworkers, transfer work and provide a status of activity.
We haven’t been in a normal situation for many years. Please suggest a resignation method now that we’re losing thousands. We can define common methods here.
Vote your favorite.
Thanks,
Grassroots Capitalism
1, 2, 4 blocker entire 8 year HON career.
I had enough one day and so did my wife. With her support, I took my personal data off my laptop, wrote a resignation letter, hit send. Drove to the plant while my Puerto Rico based 'manager' begged me not to send letter because it layed bare his BS, and he needed me. I dropped off my laptop, cell, and badge and hard copy resignation letter with a bewildered HR girl fresh from college. All the senior HR peeps were at an off-site (resort) training. Lol.
My letter detailed the clear abuse, lack of leadership, and unethical direction of management in supplier contract management.
Result, I felt F-ing great. Free instantly.
One colleague upset, cause she got the work, but she left 2 months later as well, and we're good now. All my other colleagues we're fine with it and congratulated me with understanding and lunches. I got a new job and get pinged relentlessly by staffing companies to go back to HON. I give them my EID to lookup and they ping me harder.
Just get out. GET OUT. You think everyone cares what you do because you're all talking about it together everyday, and 'bonding' over it subconsciously. But it's ALL TOXIC, like an abusive relationship. No one cares about YOU, they care about themselves, and hedging appropriately. GET OUT. You only have one life to live.
GO. LIVE.
Write a nice letter, thanking your boss for the wonderful opportunities you were able to work on during your tenure.
Thank all your colleagues for their support and camaraderie, apologize for the additional hours and EEI pressures / PIPs / No MIBs / No raises / furloughs / layoffs / walked out the door for no good reason
they will ensure in your absence.
Finish off the letter nicely with the Terminator quote, "Adios, MF".
Print out your letter on nice robust resume paper,
lash it securely to a brick,
and chuck it through a suitable window
(ensuring first that nobody inside will get hurt).
Practice several times with windows at home.
You’re battling the wrong person. Honeywell will continue to treat employees worse every year and you’ll get more coworkers behaving this way. Taking it out on the coworker will not improve this. You need to place your displeasure with Honeywell.
The employee who left did you a favor. When enough employees leave due to Honeywell’s poor treatment, the people remaining will have more leverage. You should apologize and thank her for standing up for employees. Give her a call and see if she can get you a job where she is working.
I had an employee pull this bull@$#& once, gave a day and a half notice, thought she was sticking it to “The Man” for a poor annual raise. But the only person she stuck it to was her coworkers, including myself who had given her a cash card out of pocket because management refused to acknowledge overtime effort.
Less than 2 years later, she had listed me as a reference with a potential employer. I was happy not to provide one.
Why is that those who take the voluntary RIF like we know they going into retirement do not get the same farewells as those who "retire" ? Even those that been around 25 -30 yrs suddenly get RIF'd do not get the respect either?
Give the customary 2 weeks notice, minimum. It's the right thing to do for yourself and your coworkers. Enjoy saying your farewells and tying up those loose ends, I can tell you from experience it will be far and away the most pleasant two weeks of your entire Honeywell experience.
You don't care. You are hired out until either party is done with the other. So....
On Wednesday if any given week, you send HR your resignation letter affective that Friday. On Friday you walk out.
It's nothing different than what they would go to you.
Now...., if you have time with them, you send to corporate your retirement notice, they don't tell anyone( I did this) then once you have the info you execute plan.
Good luck.
My personal opinion is to give notice and leave on good terms. I know of three engineers I work with that left 3-5 years ago from Honeywell and came back. The primary reason was the "grass wasn't greener" at their new jobs.
2 weeks notice is standard and you don't want to screw your coworkers who will pick up your responsibilities when you leave. Take your unlimited vacation and sick days before you go. Make sure you have all the phone numbers you need first, including payroll, benefits hotline and any 401k phone number and information in case they walk you out after you give notice. Remember to get any contact information you want as well, and wipe your computer clean of any personal photos or files before you give notice.
Keep it clean. It's a small world. You'll go somewhere, people from HON will follow - you should have integrity even when the company and it's management does not...
Nurture your professional reputation like your own brand - do not let anything tarnish it. It'll make proud when you grow old (I am 69 yo now and these things become more important as you age)
Good luck to you!
Take some of your unlimited vacation and do not come back. Just make sure you have worked the OT Prior to approval of the vacation..... LOL.
These are not normal times and and this is not a Normal company. Get your vacation approve for two weeks, and give notice on the day of expected return. Really more notice than they give us for anything..