[Closed] Surviving a twelve week notice period... HELP!

So long as you can demonstrate your tasks are done whatever you like...

If you can get done early suggest gardening leave after you have sat with your feet up for 3 days

12 week notice, next time, say you are joining a rival, then with gardening leave practise your manual and wheelies

Pretty much all of my jobs have been reasonably intense, obvs including lots of less intense stuff as well, but overall pretty full on. I left my last after a 3 month notice period and it was actually quite a relaxing period, just finishing things off and generally working at 50%. Felt like a sabbatical in comparison! Last 9 months have been pretty full on again!

Just put your feet up, people lower their expectations.

I resigned one job in the end of October with a start in the new one of beginning of September. Had the work the old one until end of July and my replacement started in the April. I became the fittest I will ever be in my life. Did just enough not to get fired. Happy days I look back on fondly.

I maxxed out the departmental "put your feet up, nothing to do" booking code about a month into my three month notice, but then I was being made redundant so didn't really GAS beyond having to be polite.

Manager: we've got a problem, you've used the whole departments target for non reimbursable hours

Me: and?

Manager: I have a target to minimise them

Me: Shouldn't have made me redundant then

Manager: Can't you find some work to do?

Me: No, you're making me redundant remember, because there isn't any.

Same here, handed in notice yesterday, three months to go...

I did work for a local authority many years ago on a contract, straight out of Uni. The office was tiny and based in a nice park. Dropped Mrs Surfer off at work (then my GF) and picked her up again after (1 car) After a week I was hauled in to the office as some of the staff had commented that I was working too many hours !!! My timing was based around Mrs Surfer job so I just extended my lunch break and ran around 11 miles each day, showered then back to my desk.  All happy in the ridiculously rigid and inefficient world of local authorities!

IHN, congrats!

I suggested gardening leave, or just shortening the period, but as the sole metallurgist it's good to have me on hand when a crisis begins. There won't be any for a few weeks though due to the production schedule.

Are there any reputable/ certified Rhino 3D CAD courses online that I could follow?

I'm thinking of jacking my current job in ( no projects coming through, yet loads of opportunities elsewhere) and also on 3 month notice, I am going to ask them if they'll let me go early if I hand my notice in as a lot of the jobs I'm looking at want immediate start.

If they wont reduce the notice period you could:

do the 'Roll in at 10 leave at 3 and take just 2 hours for lunch' trick and ride your bike for free extra hours!

Plan some holidays

Price up your mtb dream build.

Sell your unwanted crap on Ebay

Do some online courses, read some textbooks / papers related to your industry

Find ever more daring places to knock one out, whilst not getting fired/ending up on a register.

^ that made me chuckle..

I'm 3 weeks into 2 months notice. I've done maybe 3 days' worth of work. Doing some work towards chartership is a bloody good idea, I might do that. It'll make me look busy but is really only for my benefit.

Make sure you don't twiddle your thumbs too much or you'll start thinking "can I buy a new bike with that new salary?" and then you'll do what I've done and end up looking...

😂 @tinas

Might have made for an interesting discussion if he'd found you a heap of extra work to do!

stealth ad, but I'm going to sell my Liteville and get a BFe/ Solaris. Must resist the cotic website.

Knock one out, the meeting rooms have glass walls!

I had the same issue earlier this year. I found working from home a couple of days a week helped

Might have made for an interesting discussion if he’d found you a heap of extra work to do!

It was all very Dilbert.

Just finished a 7 week notice period

Two words - internet

Test whether searching for porn raises any alarms in the IT team.

Be good to know for your ex colleagues.

12 weeks ?? When I left the army I had to give 12 months notice think yourself lucky lol

I worked a three month notice period a couple of years ago. I’d been there 8 years, but the place was going down the pan and we got relocated further away a month into my notice. As I’d joined when the company came back from a different parent overseas, I had a blank canvas and so spent my first six months there building most things from scratch (processes, month end accounts, forecasts, budgets etc). I then worked bloody hard for many years until I handed my notice in. I worked my notice properly as I was handing over a hell of a lot of stuff to my successor who was a really good bloke.

I spent a lot of the three months getting stuff documented properly and showing him the ropes. However, I did make it abundantly clear that, especially given the relocation, I would be working my contracted hours and not the extra 1-2 hours per day that I’d customarily done for the previous eight years. I also made sure I used up all my holiday. I left on very good terms and hope that people remember me for being professional. I went to a piss-up a year later and one new bloke who I’d never actually worked there with said the notes files I’d left behind when I had to scratch around as no one was there to show me had been a lifesaver for him.

On the other hand, if I was being made redundant my attitude would be very different. As thisisnotaspoon points out, if you’re working notice because of being made redundant, there shouldn’t be a boat load of vital work to be done. That’s what redundancy is. Obviously we all know that most of the time it isn’t, but if you’re being screwed over why not? If I was being made redundant and someone asked me to write process notes I would pointedly ask why this was necessary as presumably those tasks didn’t need doing any more.

Chill and get your head refreshed for your new job.

Officially, i'm week 3 into a 6 month notice period.

Unofficially, I was escorted off the premises within 30 minutes of handing my letter in. As a member of the exec team & a department head, it would be a silly business risk to leave me in place (although i'm not silly enough to do anything), so we had a negotiation.

They kindly agreed to pay me in full for my notice period, including my annual bonus, as a lump sum payment. I'm having a few months off before I start my new job 🙂

It very much depends on the circumstances around the parting of the ways.

We recently had a department head who was brought in with a big part of his remit to shake up the team and its activities. A few months in, however, the clique within the team ganged together and made accusations of bullying etc, which nearly everyone else knew were mendacious. So a decision was made.......and the manager was ‘offered a package’!

Presumably he also argued hard and got a bit more as well, and rightly so. In that position I would do the same, it was him that was being mucked around.

12 weeks ?? When I left the army I had to give 12 months notice think yourself lucky lol

This.

Mind, I'm glad I'm contracting now, so don't have to go through with all of the notice period stuff..

2nd user name and join the EU thread??

I finish tomorrrow officialy

Only been here   3months so 1   week  notice

fed up of  5 x 10hr  days when I  wanted 32 hrs a week

back to  brewing 3 days a week hopefully

Crack on do your job. Industries can be very small.

Knock one out, the meeting rooms have glass walls!

wipe-clean, then ?  Bonus

Does work block netflix or amazon prime?

12 weeks ?? When I left the army I had to give 12 months notice think yourself lucky lol

It was 18 months when I was in the Navy. That was unless you got medically discharged, then you were turned out the door within a week 😞

2nd user name and join the EU thread??

Then argue with yourself...

Read some books on your p.c. download some classics in pdf and read.

If you are asked to go in every day then I’d be polishing up my skills by learning more about the next role or some other role based experience.

The internet is obviously the best place to go, I don’t know if you use any MS software but learning how to make a decent PowerPoint presentation is always welcomed where I am (I see so much crap, badly constructed, confusing) Or a bit of VB in Excel or Access..

Youd be surprised at how interesting the simplest of learning modules are.

HM Forces may be 12 months notice but a lot of that is resettlement isn't it?  Paid to do a Cytech course. Ta very much.  Cake baking course, don't mind if I do.  Or if you are RAF, champagne appreciation on a Wednesday squeezed in between weekends.

Spend your remaining time making cakes for your colleagues?

I'm 1 week in to my 3 month notice.

Boss was civil to start, starting to get eggy, we'll see how it goes.

I have 1 month of mine to go, my replacement will be with us fulltime for the last week. I have started some hand over documents and notes for him, but on the job learning is more important, he's already with the company in a different area so I can get some time with him ahead of this. He is also moving into this position from a very different area of the business, it's going to be quite a learning curve!

I seem to have been busier over the last 2 months than for a while. I do however seem to be spending a little more time on here again.

I hate doing the full 12 weeks, but it worked for my new employer as they were moving offices ahead of my joining which will actually give them space for me to.

I'd love to help but I'm too busy cramming an hours work into a day.