So I did it. Monday was the day I put on my big boy shoes and quit my job. Well it wasn't quite that easy. I started my day at 9am, and found my boss to be in meetings till 11:30am, and for that matter most of the day. While getting jabs from the two co-workers who knew what I was going to do that day, I ended up waiting till about 4:30pm till I could actually give my notice.
I walked into my bosses office, asked if he had a minute and proceeded to close the door. It was like I straight up punched him in the stomach. He immediately put his head down and you could tell he was upset, though not angry. We proceeded to talk for a good ten minutes or so, where he explained he was upset, but not at me, he understood that I had to do what I could for my family.
The next day I had to write up and present a resignation letter:
The purpose of this letter is to tenure my resignation at Expedient Communications. My final day as an employee of the company will be Friday November 4, 2011. My time here has come to a close far too soon, but the competing and accepted offer was too good to pass up. I have enjoyed working for Expedient, as management has been a blessing to work for and with, and have been some of the best I have had the privilege of working with in my professional life. I thank Expedient for the opportunity to work for such an organization, and I have learned far more than I ever imagined that will be carried on throughout the remainder of both my professional and personal life. I will miss my coworkers and everyone in the company that I had contact with on an almost daily basis and will look back fondly on my short time at Expedient.
Tuesday was a nice day with relatively little news, except a lunch invite for sometime before I left with one of the VPs, or my boss' boss. So that will have to be figured out sometime next week. Wednesday and Thursday, I took off for the kids to get tubes in their ears and their 1st birthday.
Friday, I was greeted by my boss, who told me that I was the key till Monday. He later explained that we were on track to smash a record that we had broken three times this year, and I was the key to doing it, since I had two giant projects that would enable us to reach that goal, with both projects easy enough to accomplish.
Right before we left for lunch, they sent an email to my team, and a few of the adjoining teams:
Team, many of you, but not all, are aware that Matt Horvat has tendered his resignation. His last day with Expedient will be Friday, 11/4/2011. We are very saddened to lose Matt and wish him the best in his future endeavors. If anyone has any open projects, deliverables, or action items with Matt that you are concerned with, please touch base with me directly. Most of his open/current stuff will be transitioning directly to [Name Redacted]
We also got an invite to a farewell team lunch for me on Wednesday, which a co-worker told me does not happen very often.
I get to make good on an offer I made to my boss of sitting down and explaining anything to anyone, as I get to catch the new guy up on all my projects and answer any questions up until I ride off into the sunset next Friday.
One of those two projects by the way is almost complete, and the other one has a few minor issues to work through and it will follow suit soon thereafter.
It's strange to think that I'm leaving this job after such a short time, but I leave feeling valued and that my time there wasn't a waste. It's funny there were times where I wondered if they hadn't made a mistake in hiring me.
Now I just wonder if I'm up to the task of the new job. I talked to my new boss on Thursday, and I find myself being shipped off to training for Oracle Apex the first week of my new job. And it's an advanced class to boot...so I better at least get my feet wet so I'm not completely lost.