Hi,
What should I prepare for as I get ready to leave the company? I.e. Benefits # to rollover 401k and pension.
Does anyone have a list of items to check off.
Thanks
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To previous post, I never kept anything personal on my work computer. My advice is to keep personal separate from business - phones, computers, files, photos on desk, everything. No matter how much you like your job, one day you will have to leave or the business environment change. Keeping things separate make it easier for the day when you leave.
If you have very large personal files, you may as well kiss those goodbye.
Prior to last day, I email a few momentous to myself. 1 or 2 photos with colleagues, their contact infos, etc.
Since management doesn’t care and are generally clueless about the work, anything that people didn’t specifically ask for are deleted when I turned in my computer. The yes-woman appointed to backfill is too arrogant to ask questions anyways because she is working on getting the next gig and destroying business.
I walked out and let it go.
Any tips on getting personal files off your computer that are too big to email? File share?
This post has everything you need
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1fEno7Kb
Excited for you!
The layoff link already posted in the comments has all the information I used when I resigned last month and it covers almost everything. A few additional things I ran into:
- Plan and act as if the day you’re resigning is your last day with the company. They may let you finish out 2 weeks, they may walk you out if you’re going to a competitor, or they may ask you to wrap things up in ~1 week. Don’t count on the additional time to say your goodbyes or draft your goodbye email, do as much of it ahead of time as you can.
- Spend all of your FSA and submit the claims for reimbursement by your last day on the payroll. If you don’t have enough doctor appts or things like that to spend the money on, Amazon and the FSA store show the unexpected items that you can spend the FSA $ on.
- Your health insurance ends on the last day of month that you were employed. So it may be advantageous to quit at the beginning of the month (depending on when your next job starts/how much time you’re taking off between jobs).
- Send your verification of employment and any other key information (contact info, emails, Voya PIN, Payroll phone #, etc.) to your personal email BEFORE you hand in your resignation/2 weeks notice. Once you hand in your resignation, they will block your email’s ability to send to outside of XOM email addresses within a few days.
- Have a two-weeks notice letter ready to send via email and printed out with the exact last day you want explicitly stated. If your desired last day is 2 weeks out, but they decide to walk you out on the day you turn your notice in, you will still be paid for those 2 weeks. That letter is your proof in case Payroll gives you issues.
- Highly recommend asking a friend that’s either an admin in your department or your HR rep to keep tabs on how things are going with your paperwork after you leave. This put me at ease knowing that people were still looking out for me even after I’m not there.
To previous post.
HR does a cr---y job. No follow-up. A bunch of robots. The information they sent after I resigned was almost useless. Better information on this layoff site than anything provided by HR.
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Make sure you change the benefits email address to your personal email and have a pin setup.
As some in HR, it's hilarious that employees go to a layoff site for this information
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1cuI67kS