Questions about quitting

[formermaerac]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Or wait for a busy day and take off at lunch and don't come back if you want to leave with a statement.

LMAO. I wish I did that at my branch but I liked the people I worked with and know my conscience wouldn't let me do it.

By the way, when I gave my notice I wasn't taken to Dairy Queen to try and talk me out of it, I was instantly shown the door.....

AMEN!

[sickofitalready1]

You give a two week notice or just told them your were quitting?

[JGATZ]

I gave them a two week notice in writing, and they tried to talk me out of it by offering to move me to another branch that wasn't as busy.

[formermaerac]

Originally Posted by sickofitalready1

You give a two week notice or just told them your were quitting?

It's been a few years since I left and honestly I can't remember if I gave them my two weeks or just walked into the BM's office and said the famous Johnny Paycheck quote "Take this Job and Shove It"....

In either case, I found a HUGE weight lifted off my shoulders as soon as I became one of the thousands who no longer bled green and couldn't hack it!

[3***C]

Generally, when you tell your manager that you will be quitting and 'want to put in your two weeks', he will contact his AM and they will sit down with you and give you the business about how you should stay and that you 'can hack it'. Don't give in to their BS if you really hate it. You got their training, which really is a good training program, and learned some valuable work lessons as to what to look for in a job, questions to ask regarding future employment, etc. If you want to be the bigger man, you will write a formal letter of resignation, but they will probably ask you to use it to clean a windshield before you go. They probably won't ask you to stay the 2 weeks as you can really mess up some stuff during that time. if you are really bitter/angry/upset/hold a grudge work a few more days and give out some free rental days, make some fake PCAR and MVAN reservations for Saturday AM so they sit fat over the weekend, and get the number of that hottie that rents every week (there's always one). Oh, yeah...you're married...enjoy your marriage now, though.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by 3***C

Generally, when you tell your manager that you will be quitting and 'want to put in your two weeks', he will contact his AM and they will sit down with you and give you the business about how you should stay and that you 'can hack it'. Don't give in to their BS if you really hate it. You got their training, which really is a good training program, and learned some valuable work lessons as to what to look for in a job, questions to ask regarding future employment, etc. If you want to be the bigger man, you will write a formal letter of resignation, but they will probably ask you to use it to clean a windshield before you go. They probably won't ask you to stay the 2 weeks as you can really mess up some stuff during that time. if you are really bitter/angry/upset/hold a grudge work a few more days and give out some free rental days, make some fake PCAR and MVAN reservations for Saturday AM so they sit fat over the weekend, and get the number of that hottie that rents every week (there's always one). Oh, yeah...you're married...enjoy your marriage now, though.

Is ERAC getting hip to the fact that someone who is lame duck might and could very well be fucking shit up during their last 2 weeks?

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Robert

Is ERAC getting hip to the fact that someone who is lame duck might and could very well be fucking shit up during their last 2 weeks?

Only took them 50 years to wise up.

Well that just means people have to start screwing things up after then decide to leave but just haven't told management yet. Fake MVAN and PCAR res are good ones, switching the keys on the key chains, locking keys in cars, leaving headlights on if you are the last one out of the branch, call some bad debts and leave nasty messages leaving the name of someone in the branch you can't stand.

[whatdude]

Originally Posted by sickofitalready1

I'm not going to lie. I bought into the hype during training and made the mistake of not doing some research on ERAC before I applied. It wasn't until after I accepted the position that I found this site and jobvent.com and that got me thinking. Well, I have already worked there for 2 weeks (3 weeks including training) and I am 100% positive that I do not want to work there any longer. Mostly for the same reasons that have been posted over and over again on here.

The whole "dreading to go to work the next day" feeling has already kicked in. I just believe that given my education and my previous job experience, I am well over qualified to be working here for dirt pay and slave hours. I have never had a job that made me want to go home and do absolutely NOTHING when I got there, night after night. Now the wife is complaining about my hours and that I never feel like doing anything and she is getting sick of me always complaining.

I am not trying to use Enterprise as a reference or put them on my resume or anything like that, so would it really even matter if I put my 2 weeks in if I have only been there for 3 weeks? I didn't think there was any need to.

I guess my bigger question would be what is the best way to quit in my situation. Just walk in and say hey I quit? I'm being serious. I don't want to "no call, no show", but I hate that place and don't want to be there 2 more weeks.

Thanks to any and all replies.

I think everyone that quits Enterprise, in some way, shape or form, wants to go out in style. I had a whole plan worked out to go out on a pick up on a busy Friday afternoon, dump the car somewhere and have a friend pick me up, never to set foot in the office ever again. It didn't quite work out that way - I was an assistant manager, I liked everyone at my branch and I needed a few people in the company as references so I did the "right" thing and put in a written two week notice so as not to burn any bridges.

You, however are in the perfect position to go out any way you want. You've only been there two weeks, so they haven't really invested anything into you as an employee. You don't plan to put them on a resume, so it doesn't matter what they think of you when you leave, and here's the best part - it's May. What does that mean? It's college graduation time my friend, in about two weeks there will be a whole new crop of new hires in your region and you'll be dismissed with a "he couldn't hack it anyway".

So it's all up to you - how do you want to go out? Even though you've only worked there two weeks you've still met a lot of people and you never know who you'll run into down the line. You can go out the "right way" by telling them you decided it just wasn't the career for you and putting in your two weeks - they'll most likely tell you to leave on the spot and you'll be forgotten before you know it. You also have the chance to do what most of us on here wish we could have done - give the company a big "Fuck You" and go out in a blaze of glory. Keep us posted on what you decide to do.

[formermaerac]

Originally Posted by Robert

Is ERAC getting hip to the fact that someone who is lame duck might and could very well be fucking shit up during their last 2 weeks?

Most companies, especially if an employee is leaving for a competitor, will normally let a person go on the spot despite the fact he/she may have given their two week notice and regardless if the departure is amicable.

In the case of ERAC, even if a departing employee is either quitting without finding a new job or is going to an unrelated industry, I'm sure they know in most cases the employee is likely not a happy camper and could reek havoc in some way shape or form....

Like what Robert said, I would be shocked if ERAC, after being in the business for 50 years, suddenly realized what could happen if they kept a soon to be ex-employee on board for even a couple of days!

[eraclover]

regardless of what you choose to do, don't plan on getting paid for those 2 weeks if you do put it in. I put in mine w/ a written letter of resignation, they told me my last day would be the next day, and did not pay thru the 2 week mark, but rather that last day. Does anyone know if that is legal?