Burning Bridges With An Employer
Should you, shouldn’t you, and how much petrol should you use.
From time to time, usually as a result of retrograde or just plainly disagreeable management practices or perhaps a series of repeatedly lacklustre pay “increases” you will inevitably decide to resign from your employer.
Let’s, rather unusually for my missives, talk about your feelings.
It’s Me, Not You
At first reaction, resignation often feels strangely unpleasant and is accompanied by a queasy feeling in the stomach like you’ve actually done something wrong — you suspect someone knows where you buried those bodies or you think you left you cryptocurrency cold wallet on the bus kind of thing².
This unpleasantness comes solely from you, as a progressive engineer and obviously regular reader, having what we referred to in the old times as a “conscience”.
You probably misguidedly thought that all of the good work you’ve done over your tenure, the adversity of agile that you’ve personally overcome, the punctuality, gravitas, and professionalism that you have consistently brought to the workplace¹ (on tortuously unpaid commutes, mind) all that, and more, should somehow should mean something to your employer.
