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Postby yialousa1971 » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:30 pm

CBBB wrote:Rule No.1

If you have applied for another job, you obviously want to leave your current employment, so if you are offered it go, don't accept any promises from your curent employer.

Rule No.2

If an employee tells you he has another job and is going to leave, let him go, because whatever you offer him that he accepts, he will do it again in a couple of months.

Rule No.3

Nobody, despite what they may think, is irreplacable

These 3 rules have always worked for me as both employee and employer.


Rule 3 doesn't apply to me as I can't be replaced. 8)
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Postby CBBB » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:33 pm

yialousa1971 wrote:
CBBB wrote:Rule No.1

If you have applied for another job, you obviously want to leave your current employment, so if you are offered it go, don't accept any promises from your curent employer.

Rule No.2

If an employee tells you he has another job and is going to leave, let him go, because whatever you offer him that he accepts, he will do it again in a couple of months.

Rule No.3

Nobody, despite what they may think, is irreplacable

These 3 rules have always worked for me as both employee and employer.


Rule 3 doesn't apply to me as I can't be replaced. 8)


I am sure that if you left the forum another idiot would be along to replace you!
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Postby FragnaticDeath » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:38 pm

CBBB wrote:Rule No.1

If you have applied for another job, you obviously want to leave your current employment, so if you are offered it go, don't accept any promises from your curent employer.

Rule No.2

If an employee tells you he has another job and is going to leave, let him go, because whatever you offer him that he accepts, he will do it again in a couple of months.

Rule No.3

Nobody, despite what they may think, is irreplacable

These 3 rules have always worked for me as both employee and employer.


Good tips man :O
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Postby yialousa1971 » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:45 pm

CBBB wrote:
yialousa1971 wrote:
CBBB wrote:Rule No.1

If you have applied for another job, you obviously want to leave your current employment, so if you are offered it go, don't accept any promises from your curent employer.

Rule No.2

If an employee tells you he has another job and is going to leave, let him go, because whatever you offer him that he accepts, he will do it again in a couple of months.

Rule No.3

Nobody, despite what they may think, is irreplacable

These 3 rules have always worked for me as both employee and employer.


Rule 3 doesn't apply to me as I can't be replaced. 8)


I am sure that if you left the forum another idiot would be along to replace you!


This forum is not bigger enough for two idiots so either you or Paphitis will have to leave. :lol:
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Postby Z4 » Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:26 pm

Ok, here is my opinion - for what it's worth.

You are lucky enough to have two jobs. As CBBB says you were unhappy with certain elements of the job or else you would not have applied for other jobs.

You could work this in your favour. You have two options:

1) Just say your leaving for pastures new. Trust me, your boss is a business person, they will understand. Your boss is not your friend, it's just business.

2) You could ask for more responsibility or even shares/directorship in the company. If he/she don't like it, fine, leave and take the other job.

One thing, don't be a coward.

I worked for someone and we were a close team. I was there for 6 years. He gave me some real tidy pay increases but I still left. He was upset because I was an important part of the team but he got over it. I still keep in touch with him now and everything is fine.
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Postby SKI-preo » Sat Feb 06, 2010 6:22 am

Thankyou for the advice everybody- I finally gave notice to the old boss.He said he would not accept my resignation.I told him I am leaving see you later adios amigos. The thing was I never applied for job No2. They approached"head hunted" me as I did work for them through the old boss' consulting firm. The new job pays $50,000 AUD more than my recent pay rise.

My anxiety in changing jobs is because I have a form of dyslexia where I read a sentence forward then backward and then forward. It takes me three times as long to read or write complex sentences. I am only having it treated now. I was able to achieve success in my old role by using office juniors to read things to me and by using a digital notetaker where they typed all my memos,letters seminar notes and emails and delegating boring administrative tasks and focusing on making money.

I actually got through uni the same way. My girlfriend would record herself reading a text book and I would memorize it word for word. Whole text books. I had to get 100% on oral/practical components and scrape through with a borderline pass in all written components.
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Postby Z4 » Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:11 pm

Well done mate!

Good luck in your new job
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