Leaving job to go travelling advice

[Pearcyy]

Hi, i work for a small company in a skilled role, i go travelling for a year on september the 1st and i've not told my employer yet, it's very close where i work with my boss/employer every day. Now my plan was to give him 2 months notice of me leaving to give him time to recruit someone and i will offer to train them to install the products. I want to give him as much notice as i can as he is a good guy and has been pretty good with me so don't want him to feel like i've been an arse with him and not telling him sooner because september will be a really busy period. But at the same time i need to cover my own back because i can't afford for him to sack me which i dont think he would but i cant take that risk.

Would it be possible for him to get rid of me after serving my notice which is 1 month if i tell him sooner?

[anonymous-user]

Yes - there was a thread exactly on this subject only a month ago or less.

[slow_poke]

Y'know there's the potential for a good big long thread on this very topic....

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Lotus Notes]

Link as mentioned above It didn't end well for this chap

[anonymous-user]

That's the one!

[Pearcyy]

Aha thanks for that! Think i'll keep quiet then! Don't think he would do that but i suppose in his eyes business is business!

[Shuvi McTupya]

Slightly different circumstances though. You are not moving to a competitor , or setting up on your own.

If I liked my boss, I might be inclined to bring the subject up in a ' what if I wanted to go travelling? ' type scenario ..

[Pearcyy]

Yeah but im just thinking if he did bring someone in to replace me he wouldn't want is both on payroll, and hes told me he had someone in for a chat who does what i do but on different products but wasn't that impressed with him but he is looking to take someone else on to help me around the time i go.

[MrBarry123]

As you say OP, business is business.

Provide ONLY what your contract asks you to in terms of notice and nothing more.

[uk_vette]

1 month,
nothing more
nothing less.

[Studio117]

MrBarry123 said:

As you say OP, business is business.

Provide ONLY what your contract asks you to in terms of notice and nothing more.

This, you will be very surprised at the change in attitude once they know you're leaving even when on good terms with management.