‘What do you want from me?’: Employee hands in their 2-week notice, only for boss to refuse to accept it without being provided with reasons for the resignation

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  • "Manager keeps poking into reasons after I gave 2 week notice"

    as title says, I gave my 2 week notice 2 days ago (Monday). I had a brief convo with boss and mentioned this and then sent formal resignation email to boss and CC'd HR to make it
  • official and on paper. I stated that X date would be last day-- short n sweet. Then I start getting pings/emails from boss and boss's boss about "can we
  • connect later this week-- maybe sooner?". And then they keep telling me what to do like "don't tell other team members or anyone that you are leaving yet". I
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  • also woke up to boss scheduling a 8:30am meeting and when I hopped on, he kept asking me about reasons why I'm leaving and what are things that could have made me stay.
  • At first, I said "Better Opportunity" bc i didn't want. to elaborate, but afterwards boss asked me what specifically and kept trying to drill into this.
  • I'm just kind of insulted by these actions, tbh, bc they definitely KNOW why im leaving... I also said I'd be working remotely the rest of the notice
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  • period except the last day so that I can return all company assets. Then boss told me just this morning that they require me in office for 2 days next week lol.
  • Anyone been through this?? Kind of confused on what they want from me atp... they knew how miserable i was during my last 8 months here..
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  • ksants87 Don't take the bait. You don't have to tell them anything you don't want to.
  • pinkk7 OP Accidentally took it.. he kept poking after I said better opportunity. Then he kept asking drilling questions and I ended up just saying "flexibility and compensation factor". I think thats vague enough. I definitely will not disclose the new company!
  • rowingbacker They could also be looking for clues to prevent the rest of the team from following you out the door. Looking for areas to improve, etc. They could also be working to put together a
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  • counter-offer, which is why they don't want you telling anyone you're leaving. However, if that's the case, they should have been upfront and said 'hey, we're preparing an counter offer'.
  • pinkk7 OP Yeah if they come up with a counter offer.. im not accepting. Had annual perf review recently and got 1.5% merit after putting my head down and working like a hog for them lol. Why do management do this?? Like why do they realize. this after the fact that the employee has made up their mind to leave.. i'll never understand
  • Fresh_Caramel8148 Seems like they don't want to lose you. And this is insulting?? It's fine to not give them details. But I'm not seeing anything unusual here if they actually want to try and keep you.
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  • pinkk7 OP Moreso insulted because during the past few months, i've complied to RTO. I was originally a wfh hire and came in office 5x a week under this management. Then it started being too much (commute is 1.5hrs away and they know this) so I was adamant about getting my wfh day back
  • rven just a few. They declined.. and just for context, my other team members have 3x wfh.. lol. So then I didnt dispute further. But comes around perf review, i only get less than 2% increase. I was pretty offended by that
  • considering I had thr most workload and competent in my job. So when boss asked me what could have made me stay, it was just odd bc it's not like they didnt know what I wanted/what I was going thru.
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  • reddits rdnow Never give notice, don't give them anything except your normal workload, or less.
  • pinkk7 OP Didn't want to burn the bridge— never know when it might bite me in the . So even tho i despise them, i want to keep it professional
  • GreenLion777 So let me digest this, you want to work remote for last days, and they've decided they need you in office all while trying tell you not to tell your colleagues that you are leaving, how stupid.
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  • Obviously that is completely up to you (informing team members of resignation) 100% your prerogative.
  • pinkk7 OP Yep u summarized it perfectly. Ty for the input- i feel validated

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