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Yes. I left my laptop and access card on my desk on a Sunday and emailed them Monday. No f**ks given. I was done.
HR emailed me the cobra info and a memo regarding my final work date then I went to my new firm and all was good 😊
Sending notice via email is not burning bridges.
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Agreed, A3. Thanks for clarifying.
I feel like a lot of these responses are really short-sighted. Unless you practice in an area where you can throw a rock and hit another attorney who does what you do (e.g. M&A), this industry can be a really small world and you're likely to show up across from or have to deal with these people again in another life. Always go out with grace, in my humble opinion, and don't burn bridges if you can avoid it.
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Email is fine
It is fine. Nobody cares.
You’re just a number. They will find another person to fill your place and the endless cycle will continue.
Yes I gave notice via email to the group head
Did you tell anyone else or just the group head?
No one cares. I quit over email to head of group and copied one other partner.
I also drafted a notice and sent it to the group head giving two weeks notice.
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Email to HR is fine
I’m sure there’s no person practicing more than a few months who hasn’t wanted to do that at least once. Basically, it’s super immature and short sighted to actually follow through on it, and anyone who advises you differently is giving you terrible advice. How hard is it to come into the office, ask for a minute with your supervisor and resign in person? Not fun of course, but that’s how a professional resigns whether he likes his firm or not. Also there is a well known and accepted standard that you offer to remain in the job for two weeks’ to transition your matters to another attorney. If you don’t do that you have created an air tight reason for the firm you depart from to slam you when inevitably someone calls for a reference in the future. Generally you’re protected from being bad mouthed by quality firms by virtue of the fact that they have no interest in creating a possible tortious interference claim; however, (1) low quality people still do this occasionally even irrationally out of spite and (2) unlike most negative feedback a former employer can give (e.g., was your work product good, bad or ugly), this one is not subjective at all and relatively easy to prove. This is not a theoretical risk either. Had an old colleague who left a firm without giving notice so he could take vacation between jobs. Seemed like a good deal for him until the Great Recession arrived, and he lost his job while his field was the overloaded with excess capacity. Had a mutual friend put him up for a job at friend’s company, and firm was about to hire him until they did the reference check and found out about his failure to comply with the two week rule that everyone knows. Offer rescinded and guy was left with nothing but all the time in the world to consider his mistake. Twenty years later I’m not sure he’s fully recovered from that error in judgment and the year or two he sat on the sidelines because of it. Hope that vacation was fun…
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Yea definitely