Handing notice in early, leave self open?

[Taita]

I have just been accepted into the military, hopefully for May. I would like to help my employer out by giving them as much notice as I can however unsure about the best way of doing this. Want to keep my job open as long as poss, in case any problems.

Can I give it them verbally asap but hold off written until 4 weeks before? My Dad was a teacher and kept getting pestered to get the written one in ASAP so they can start interviewing etc?

Edited by Taita on Sunday 17th January 10:50

[Animal]

Congrats on being accepted!

Have you mentioned your military application to your employer in the past? Suggest you should speak to your boss ASAP to let them know what's going on, and make sure you tell them that you're trying to be helpful by telling them well in advance.

Good luck!

[Bullett]

Don't tell them until you have to unless you want all the stty jobs, no favours, benefits or and otherwise plesant life for the next 4 months.

[okgo]

Bullett said:

Don't tell them until you have to unless you want all the stty jobs, no favours, benefits or and otherwise plesant life for the next 4 months.

This I reckon, end of the day think of number one.

[FamilyGuy]

Bullett said:

Don't tell them until you have to unless you want all the stty jobs, no favours, benefits or and otherwise plesant life for the next 4 months.

Definitely this. I made this mistake just once by telling a client I'd been at for a couple of years that I was going to move on. Seeing it from their perspective - there was simply no point in getting me involved with anything rewarding because they'd rather invest that in people they were going to retain and get some return from. Everything even vaguely interesting went elsewhere and I nearly died of boredom and frustration at seeing useless folk handed my work. There was logic, not malice, in their actions but the personal impact was still unpleasant.

[siscar]

I am an employer so I should be on the side of telling them early, but I'm not. If you are on four weeks notice tell them four weeks before you leave, anything else is a mistake. It's not just that you will get the stty jobs you also don't know what will happen in the intervening time, who knows the army may suddenly freeze recruitment or something may happen in your life that means you no longer want to go. Not likely, perhaps, but possible and so best not to burn bridges when you don't need to.

[Taita]

They know about my application - needed a reason for the unpaid leave!

However, they don't know I have passed, and I have always said it would be January 2011 when I left. Since this time, I can definately sense being sidelined.

[okgo]

Taita said:

They know about my application - needed a reason for the unpaid leave!

However, they don't know I have passed, and I have always said it would be January 2011 when I left. Since this time, I can definately sense being sidelined.

Just give 4 weeks notice, they will replace you within days and forget you were even there in a month.

[Taita]

okgo said:

Taita said:

They know about my application - needed a reason for the unpaid leave!

However, they don't know I have passed, and I have always said it would be January 2011 when I left. Since this time, I can definately sense being sidelined.

Just give 4 weeks notice, they will replace you within days and forget you were even there in a month.

<launches into 'blah blah very valuable to company etc, how very dare you' speech>

Only 40 of us, but I think you are probably right!

[sonic_2k_uk]

I'd be giving the minimum amount of notice required also, no point in potentially making you're life more difficult.

[Soovy]

siscar said:

I am an employer so I should be on the side of telling them early, but I'm not. If you are on four weeks notice tell them four weeks before you leave, anything else is a mistake.

This. 1000000%

[Rude-boy]

Soovy said:

siscar said:

I am an employer so I should be on the side of telling them early, but I'm not. If you are on four weeks notice tell them four weeks before you leave, anything else is a mistake.

This. 1000000%

Agreed.

You have also, imo been quite lucky to this point and it does not surprise me that you have already felt a chill in their disposition towards you.

I was speaking to a number of employers recently about someone who mysteriously got made 'redundant' a month after they mentioned to the wrong person that they had applied for a job elsewhere (another step up the ladder in terms of pay and responsibilities). To a person they all said that in the same boat they would have been on the phone to HR/their employment solicitor to see how they could get rid, regardless of if that person was successful in their application or not.