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Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally?

Posted by Cliff on from the two-weeks-means-just-that dept.

MikeDawg asks: "I submitted a letter of resignation yesterday, and today I'm at home posting stories to my weblog and Slashdot. I gave my employer two weeks notice, and almost immediately, I had my accounts disabled, and my permissions revoked on all the computers at my work, which makes me unable to do anything in my position of being a 'Systems Analyst/Systems Administrator'. I spoke with the HR rep, and gave her my notice yesterday, then I spoke with her today about what had happened to my access, and they honored my resignation... 2 weeks early. (Luckily, I'm compensated in pay for the next two weeks). What I want to know is, how do you computer and IT professionals out there put in your notice of resignation (if you are with a permanent employer, and not contractual), and not get immediately shutdown, and shunned away from the computers? The CIO immediately thought I was going to do something terrible to the system, and destroy accounts, and any other activity that I have access to, but I was giving him notice that I was leaving. What is the professional thing to do?"

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  1. Re:What did you expect? by Fishstick · · Score: 5, Informative

    Really - this is SOP in many, if not most places. At my company, anyone with "sensitive" access is immediately revoked upon receipt of written resignation. Period.

    I would be more surprised to hear anything else.

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    There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
    Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.

  2. 2 good reasons for sending a leaver home on pay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I sent a key member of staff home within an hour of his resignation. There were two reasons for this:

    1) Morale of other staff - There is nothing worse than hearing somebody tell you that grass is greener where they're going.
    2) I knew that if I sent him home and there was a good chance that I'd find out within a month whether he had some vital knowledge that we needed. This would not be have been noticed if he had worked his notice period. If he did have knowledge or skills that we needed, better to find out during his notice period at home. If we call him while he is still on the payroll, he has a duty to respond.

    "Corporate secrets" or "vandalism" were pretty low on my priority list to be honest. If this was going to happen, it had probably happened already.