Have you ever experienced a questionable situation with your boss around resignation dates in Massachusetts? How can you handle a boss who pressures you to provide a document within a short timeframe, threatening to change your resignation date? Are you familiar with navigating tricky situations with your employer when it comes to resigning? #WorkplaceIssues #BossDrama #ResignationTroubles
“I will be working on assigned tasks per managerial direction.”
Notice isn’t a legal issue for the most part. You’ve quit. They’re always free to say thank you, we accept as of now. Most states have a waiting week and then you’d be eligible for unemployment from that point until you wanted to be your end date.
Can you have another meeting with HR? You sound like you’re being harassed.
Forward all of those emails to your personal email address. Get HR involved. He clearly isn’t acting professional and is creating a hostile environment.
You need to decide if the PTO payment is worth it staying. To allow yourself the breathing room to decide. I would craft a document outlining to the best of my ability what he wants. A hostile boss is not the same as a legally defined hostile work environment.
If your boss sends a date with a resignation with a date that is to the disadvantage of your PTO, immediately send a correction and copy HR stating you are not resigning. (Don’t give a new date— just not resigning). Make them fire you.
Take your PTO, let him fire you, and collect unemployment
You told them you are leaving. The employer is not required to keep you on for 2 more weeks. They can have you leave immediately. This is legal.
This is why people should be prepared to leave immediately when their give their notice. You have exercised very poor judgment in notifying your employer of your intent to leave before you have even stayed long enough to comply with your signing bonus time period. You will likely need to pay that back.
Every email of his that you reply to, BCC HR
Sounds like you opened your mouth too soon
Are we to just guess what PTO is an acronym for ?
Assuming you don’t have an employment contract, you can be fired at any time for any reason (other than membership in a protected class). You’re welcome to announce that you’re not resigning until a certain date, and your boss is free to fire you prior to that date.
For most purposes, the difference is irrelevant. You can’t collect unemployment when you start your new job, and you would need to wait a week to start claiming in MA anyways.
I would email my boss and hr. Tell them that after reading the fine print of the other offer you have decided to stay. You need to use X number of hours of pto right away due to unforseen personal matters. Then when you come back, polietly send out the resgination email with your set date on it. Or, if you have enough time, and the pto is approved, send in the email with 2 weeks left of your pto. Do not forget to take all your personal items before taking the pto. I have seen things go ” missing” when company employees do the packing.
Don’t worry ! It’s in an email you wrote ! Nevermind his ego.
Since you’re in Massachusetts, they have to pay you the PTO balance as wages. Perhaps they’re considering immediate termination of your employment. This lowers how much they need to spend on you.
Whatever you do, take that motherfucker down on your way out. Accuse him formally, get it on record with the company. State you are not resigning, attach your evidence (document everything) and state you’re making this formal complaint because you expect this manager to falsify your resignation date in an effort to sabotage your signing bonus, effectively firing you. If this occurs, you will be forced to pursue legal recourse.
Then recommend your boss’s boss be looped in on your transition out, so your team gets the support you need rather than your time be devoted to frivolous projects designed for you to fail, which is a thinly veiled attempt by your boss to take punitive action including termination.
Later on, share the story with everyone of worth as an example of why you are quitting that boss, not the company. That person should never get another promotion.
Not sure how your PTO is classified.
Massachusetts law accrued holiday and vacation time must be paid out as part of last check.
[https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-law-about-vacation-leave](https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-law-about-vacation-leave)
lawyer. lawyer now. get employment lawyer now.
If I were you I wouldn’t go back as long as you have enough PTO to get you to where you need to be. Go see a doctor tomorrow. You’re not going to have any positive interactions with your boss from here on out.
never ever tell anyone official and until you research your rights. Of course they’re going to try and get you out the cheapest way you can. Reach the employee handbook, figure out what your rights are and take this as a lesson for next time.
You quit. He is telling you he accepts it immediately unless you do what he asks. Even if you argue you didn’t officially quit you told him you are quitting, which is basically the same thing.
When you give notice an employer has no obligation to accept that and can accept your resignation at any time.
You simply state it is beyond his authority to set YOUR RESIGNATION DATE. If he wishes to fire you that is his right.
Tell him you will write the doc right after you call the state Department of Labor to clarification around your payouts under your circumstances.
My advice? Walk out. Forget it and move on. You will never get paid for the PTO at this point. You will spend more time and stress than it’s worth. Go make your new job all it can be for you. Lesson learned.
Obviously, the lesson is to use your PTO and then put in your notice and never mention to your boss that you “might” be quitting until you actually do quit.
So when you told your boss that you needed to figure out your last day based on your remaining PTO, you effectively resigned.
Trust me, they don’t want to fire you. They can’t resign on your behalf – it doesn’t work that way.