they can hold on to your letter forever, but the date on your letter is the effective date of your notice will continue to run say you tender on 1st Jan the Director hold your letter for one week, you still get to resign on the 31st Jan (assuming its a one month notice)

This post has been edited by aurora97: Jul 9 2009, 10:10 AM

a long chat cannot be avoided unless your boss really hates you...if he calls you in for a chat, likely it means he/she appreciate you and want to know why you want to leave and are you not happy working there. If the boss ignores you, means, in his/her heart.."thanks god, you are leaving"

its always good to send the resignation letter to HR and cc to your immediate boss, not necessary the HOD. or even verbally tell your immediate boss first then follow up with a letter

There's no point for the Director to hold your Letter. Day in day out...it's counting down.

Let's put it this way, yu may say "Yu are seeking for greener pastures elsewhere".

Your balls kind of shrunk when yu engaged in an exit interview?

Regards, Joey

u tender in writing, and if u follow ur emplyment contract with sufficient notice period and all,

employer CANNOT stop u from leaving.

tats not necessarily true for all exit interviews...

i had 2 exit interviews first with the ED and subsequently gang bang by ED & VP + 1 informal one over dinner with my immediate boss, does that count as EXTREMELY bad?

both the ED & VP were really nice ppl and we chatted for like 45mins

though my immediate boss was sometimes emotionally unstable (part of the reason i left), she took the courtesy to buy me dinner and tried to pursuade me to stay. (whilst over dinner, she was asking me took look at hot guys over the next table and give comments )

Your not the first person i come across with a neg view on Exit interviews...

If a person is leaving, why does the management (or ur boss, director, CEO or whoever) want to take the time just to talk to you waste saliva just to persuade a person to stay- got other better things to do right?

lol

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Added on July 9, 2009, 10:11 amTO TS:

Refer to the above, bold and highlighted

This post has been edited by aurora97: Jul 9 2009, 10:11 AM

aurora97 ,

thx for ya advice...truly appreciate it..

any advise to give them better impressions b4 leaving the firm??

This post has been edited by monochrome: Jul 22 2009, 07:19 AM

For the email, I suggest yu write a short text.

Regards, Joey

p.s: Short text is the key words. "Short text".