Research of the company’s resignation policy will put you
wise to the fact that you may be immediately escorted off the premises. If this
is the case some office housekeeping is needed before your deliver your letter.
Complete the following tasks before you resign:
Take
any personal items home prior to resigning. It is wise to do this a
little at a time. Leave the pictures of your kids until the last day.
Make sure you separate what belongs to the company
from what is what you bought with your own money. Possession is not
really nine-tenths of the law. In fact, some companies will charge
employees with theft. Leave the pen for the next guy.
Delete any personal e-mails or sensitive computer
information from your desktop. Sensitive computer information can be
classed as: the family budget, the book report you typed at the last moment for
your child and various other things you may not want anyone else to read.
You are required to leave anything that belongs to the company with the
company. This can run from computer software that you developed to the
prototype for the next multi-million dollar widget you thought of one day on
the way to work.
Make
sure all your projects are completed. If they can’t be completed leave well-organized
directions for the next person who will take over from you.
Deliver Your Letter of Resignation
This is always good to do at the end of the day. That
way if they tell you not to come back you get to sleep in the next day.
However, if they want you to sign exit papers, complete an exit interview or
offer you a counter offer to the one you already have you can tell them you see
them in the morning to discuss it, make an appointment and do the following.
Signing Papers with Any Type Of Legal Action Pending