I quit my last job without notice because I had one lined up (but it turned out I couldn’t start immediately) and in retrospect my rent situation would have been a lot better if I’d just scrupulously covered my ass for a month. And I’m lucky enough to have the kind of job where people call back within 12h of me submitting a resume but that’s exactly because I do the kind of 100% essential jobs that have a coinflip’s worth of shitty bosses and the kind of pay that leaves you paycheck to paycheck if you’ve had bad enough luck and/or life choices in a particular year. I guess I could’ve just called places and got some temp work from the first employer to offer but then I’m still having to cover my ass but now against the devil I don’t know while learning a whole new set of policies that I’m only gonna use for one month before I’m learning the next ones. If you’re in a secure enough position in your life that you can just quit because you have a good enough balance of savings and demand for your skillset then please take a moment today and practice gratitude to whatever entity or lack thereof that you attribute your good fortune to.
The two things I can think of are the company may try to tag you for inappropriately handling what they consider confidential information – and if something goes to court and the email ends up in the discovery process, opposing council may be allowed access to your entire personal email account.
It’s probably better to copy everything as an attachment to a dedicated portable drive so it’s less likely to be called out by the company, and if it ends up it court you only need to release the information on that drive.
Weekly/monthly dump of the inbox to a personal cloud storage for later archiving
Except don’t do this if your company tells you not to(which they most likely have) as it will actually screw you over pretty badly. Unless you’ve got hard proof of illegality going on, don’t piss off your employer by being paranoid.
If it made the boss feel inadequate, then yes - dial that shit back, maybe pretend to attempt to roll but then trip (while actually aiming to just trip), roll for constitution to avoid damage. Taking ego damage is unavoidable in that case, except getting to keep the job more than balances it out:-).
And congratulations - you just leveled up! Now you get to do 1.1x your previous workload, for 1.00x your previous pay.:-( Although when all your friends at work get let go, you get to stay.
Hey Boss
So as discussed earlier, you’re accepting my recommendation that we NOT do _____ due to the high risk of _____, correct?
Thanks in advance for helping to clarify this!
- yourname
if your relationship with your boss is this toxic, you should be writing a resignation email instead.
I quit my last job without notice because I had one lined up (but it turned out I couldn’t start immediately) and in retrospect my rent situation would have been a lot better if I’d just scrupulously covered my ass for a month. And I’m lucky enough to have the kind of job where people call back within 12h of me submitting a resume but that’s exactly because I do the kind of 100% essential jobs that have a coinflip’s worth of shitty bosses and the kind of pay that leaves you paycheck to paycheck if you’ve had bad enough luck and/or life choices in a particular year. I guess I could’ve just called places and got some temp work from the first employer to offer but then I’m still having to cover my ass but now against the devil I don’t know while learning a whole new set of policies that I’m only gonna use for one month before I’m learning the next ones. If you’re in a secure enough position in your life that you can just quit because you have a good enough balance of savings and demand for your skillset then please take a moment today and practice gratitude to whatever entity or lack thereof that you attribute your good fortune to.
This goes so hard
Don’t bcc your personal email, the internal mail servers can see everything even if the recipients don’t. Better to just screencap when possible.
The boss can’t see it unless he asks a tech for it. The techs usually don’t care.
So what if they know you have it?
The two things I can think of are the company may try to tag you for inappropriately handling what they consider confidential information – and if something goes to court and the email ends up in the discovery process, opposing council may be allowed access to your entire personal email account.
It’s probably better to copy everything as an attachment to a dedicated portable drive so it’s less likely to be called out by the company, and if it ends up it court you only need to release the information on that drive.
This would get you fired from some jobs.
Most companies have software to identify what you’ve copied to an external drive as well.
Download it, actually.
Weekly/monthly dump of the inbox to a personal cloud storage for later archiving
Except don’t do this if your company tells you not to(which they most likely have) as it will actually screw you over pretty badly. Unless you’ve got hard proof of illegality going on, don’t piss off your employer by being paranoid.
Or if you’re Hillary Clinton 😜.
Butterymales
After months of no replies, you are fired for “lack of initiative”.
Unless you went ahead and did it, and then you get fired for “too much initiative”.
You have to find just the right amount of initiative.
My DEX modfier is +2 and get another +2 from being a bard, is +4 too high?
If it made the boss feel inadequate, then yes - dial that shit back, maybe pretend to attempt to roll but then trip (while actually aiming to just trip), roll for constitution to avoid damage. Taking ego damage is unavoidable in that case, except getting to keep the job more than balances it out:-).
And congratulations - you just leveled up! Now you get to do 1.1x your previous workload, for 1.00x your previous pay.:-( Although when all your friends at work get let go, you get to stay.
Make sure you don’t roll too high or too low.