My Righteous Resignation
This past Friday I let my supervisor know that I planned on leaving the company on June 1. But before I got a chance to do this, there was a bit of drama.
Friday morning one of co-workers asked my help on a problem that he could figure out. So I decided to take it upon myself just to do it for him because he looked busy. I was able to solve the problem and preceded to install some software on affected machine. I thought I was doing a good thing, but I was wrong. Upon return to my desk my I approached by my supervisor, and with a hushed tone he asked me if I was having a problem with said co-worker. I explained the ordeal and told him that this has happened several time before. So after conversation ended, I was livid.
It wasn't like I did something devious behind his back. I let him know what I was doing but I guess that wasn't good enough. I guess he harbored some resentment towards me because the day prior we was talking to a user that we clearly frustrated with him and he could careless. I spoke with this user to see if their problem was resolved and they let me know that he [the co-worker] was less than helpful. After better clarification of the user problem I let them know that I would do a follow-up. I was thanked numerous times and had them up and running in less than an hour. I let the co-worker know that I talked to the user and let him know exactly what the problem was how it could be resolved. He didn't look to please with me. He had been short with me the entire week but it wasn't until this past Friday where I just decided to washed my hands of him.
So when it was time to let my supervisor know that I was leaving the company, I sent an e-mail requesting a private meeting. I was going to type up a formal resignation letter, but I thought that would have been a bit much. So during meeting I let him know my intentions of leaving but he told me he saw it coming. He wasn't sure if I called the meeting to complain about the co-workers or since I will be graduating in 2 weeks that I decided to leave to persue other employment. He wished me the best and told me to find a job that will be challenging and not setting for something I am currently doing because he felt I would get bored. He didn't have to say that, but I am glad that he did. After the meeting we broke the new to the other people in the department who also took the news well but playful joked about how bad Dallas is so that I could stay. They let me know if I need any references just let them know and they would be happy to do it.
I like where I work now but it is something I would like to do longterm. I have desires to do something better, professionally and personally, but I would have to move in order to do it. I have never lived more than a couple hours away from my hometown of Syracuse because I have been afraid to "leave the nest."This will be my opportunity to truly be on my own.
June 4, 2005 -- moving day.
Friday morning one of co-workers asked my help on a problem that he could figure out. So I decided to take it upon myself just to do it for him because he looked busy. I was able to solve the problem and preceded to install some software on affected machine. I thought I was doing a good thing, but I was wrong. Upon return to my desk my I approached by my supervisor, and with a hushed tone he asked me if I was having a problem with said co-worker. I explained the ordeal and told him that this has happened several time before. So after conversation ended, I was livid.
It wasn't like I did something devious behind his back. I let him know what I was doing but I guess that wasn't good enough. I guess he harbored some resentment towards me because the day prior we was talking to a user that we clearly frustrated with him and he could careless. I spoke with this user to see if their problem was resolved and they let me know that he [the co-worker] was less than helpful. After better clarification of the user problem I let them know that I would do a follow-up. I was thanked numerous times and had them up and running in less than an hour. I let the co-worker know that I talked to the user and let him know exactly what the problem was how it could be resolved. He didn't look to please with me. He had been short with me the entire week but it wasn't until this past Friday where I just decided to washed my hands of him.
So when it was time to let my supervisor know that I was leaving the company, I sent an e-mail requesting a private meeting. I was going to type up a formal resignation letter, but I thought that would have been a bit much. So during meeting I let him know my intentions of leaving but he told me he saw it coming. He wasn't sure if I called the meeting to complain about the co-workers or since I will be graduating in 2 weeks that I decided to leave to persue other employment. He wished me the best and told me to find a job that will be challenging and not setting for something I am currently doing because he felt I would get bored. He didn't have to say that, but I am glad that he did. After the meeting we broke the new to the other people in the department who also took the news well but playful joked about how bad Dallas is so that I could stay. They let me know if I need any references just let them know and they would be happy to do it.
I like where I work now but it is something I would like to do longterm. I have desires to do something better, professionally and personally, but I would have to move in order to do it. I have never lived more than a couple hours away from my hometown of Syracuse because I have been afraid to "leave the nest."This will be my opportunity to truly be on my own.
June 4, 2005 -- moving day.
1 Comments:
I hope you like Dallas. It's really not that bad, but I guess you'll make up your own mind about that after living there for a while.
By Mario, at 3:06 PM
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