Lets say in scenario if there is resigning staff refuse to finish work.

make excuses when in actual sense, can finish work in time.

But refuse to do the work.

just 1 week to go.

What can HR do to take action?

Ask the manager to create a task handover list and assign to other staffs.

Actually, the task handover list should be created once he/she tenders. Not 1 week before the staff last day.

Nothing. Left 1 week only, can do what?

Don't even think of petty things like withhold salary or whatever, he call jtk complain lagi more problems.

At most maybe you can hint the next employer he a bit difficult.

HR cannot do anything at all as anything they can do would be pointless and a waste if time.

Absolutely fuckall.

Make sure the new hire is better quality.

You can't do much, the best course of action is just to inform his next company.

Can't do much. But the staff won't get good referral from your company

Most companies place their outgoing employees on garden leave for this very reason. And there's nothing you can do about it anyway

lels they took my advice to touch fish after tendering their resignation lol
just goes to show its a low lvl and terrible company to work in
if it was a good company and a career move they wouldve been eager to finish it so they can put it on their resume to bump their pay up but if its a terrible company, too bad, cant really do anything unless u want to be petty as well
also, kesian the next hire, wont have a proper handover list and will kena scold for not knowing what they dont know

last time i resign from one company, my cuti offset everything, cant do knowledge trasfer,handoff everything.
served the manager right, sapa suruh halang internal transfer.

1 week left is to do handover. Prepare documentation.
U want him to finish work so u can take all the credit? Hahaha. Cmon.

U can’t do shit

U should already do handover the first few day he leave so he can guide the team if he wants

U are at his mercy and not the other way around ya

Live with it

When i resigned last time. I clear all my work and table. Make it clean

Ts, just like there are good natured & asshole people. In the workforce, there are professional & those who don't give a damn.

Doesn't matter if the company treats the employee well or not. There will be some assholes who.will take advantage.

Do not threaten or force the fellow to finish his work. Just leave it,if the fellow was professional. He/she would have have done their best to.make sure everything is complete.

You force them to finish it, I guarantee u will regret it as at best they just cincai finish, at worst they sabotage.. Either way, u are better off getting.someone more responsible to finish the tasks.

This post has been edited by arkasi: Apr 25 2025, 08:28 PM

1 week left why still got work? Mostly should be handed over already or at least in progress

If it is just one week to go and stuck in this situation, the fault is with the line manager.

immediate termination

ask HR type termination letter n hand it to him on the spot with reason clearly stated, in dis case failure to complete assigned tasks

celery will b pro-rated n cheque will b mailed to his address

ask security to watch over him while he packs

attend also waste resource only. kick away

should have a handover list, then list must be completed and signed, then only the salary will be paid at the last day of the month.

Man, that’s rough. Had a coworker pull this once, gave notice and just checked out mentally with days left. HR can’t force them to work, but they can dock pay for hours not worked or withhold final bonuses if that’s in the contract. A quick sit-down with a clear “finish this or it hits your paycheck” usually lights a fire. Worst case, document everything and shift tasks to someone else to keep things moving. Sucks, but it happens.

when resignation accepted, should start handover already :X he/she can goyang tulur nennen liao, some company even put you on garden leave, laptop straight away took away liao :X



probably some chinabeng company :X no security, and no one to hand over, die die want the staff to finish it :X

This post has been edited by anakkk: Apr 25 2025, 10:03 PM

make sure to give a note to new employer when they call to inquire

Nothing. Same happened to me, even with 1 month left to go, my HR advised me to chuck it all away, not to bother. Actually 9 months of work I didn’t upload to share drive. They had to re-do audit again but the dept closed up and transferred to another. I received a workforce reduction plan, still kept my 14 mths gaji.

You think so? Not finishing work is not a terminatable offense. Be ready for the unfair dismissal claim in JPP
And holding back salary? See above

1 week left.

You are supposed to let the person handover everything the work that he/she carried on.

If 1 week left you want to micromanage that person work, that means no proper handover has been done.

It's a different situation if you are working in call centre, retail, f&b where the work goes on as usual until your last day since these type of works are more to hands on and no heavy documentation required

Question the immediate supervisor.
Usually this happens when the resigned staff has an issue with management. If there was no issue, he/she probably will have a good handover.

As you mentioned "make excuses when in actual sense, can finish work in time." This simply translate to how he/she sees the company/management and is trying to get back at the company.

This post has been edited by Capt. Marble: Apr 26 2025, 08:58 AM

maybe can ask the person to walk you through what are the things that he/she has handed over and what are the things that are still pending

No wonder the staff left🤣🤣🤣. Already resign still expect finish work🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

is better that way. the person taking over should take over asap while the guy is still around. got question still can ask

Just ask him garden leave n take back laptop tat evening.. don even tink of terminate him coz will b messy coz not like he ady serve few warning
Company to take lesson do a proper handover nex resignation

That was me 🤣 Days before I was supposed to leave, I was trying my best to finish all the work. My work was related to F&b so it was impossible to finish everything but my "manager" kept threatening me to finish it.

Since I didn't plan to work in this industry anymore, I purposely left out a big chunk of tasks in my handover list n left a lot of shit for them to settle once I was gone. Before u crucify me, pls note that this is an extremely toxic company to begin with in which they gossip non stop abt u n being rude to others is very much acceptable.

Well, I wouldn't be the one to judge you at all, as I know a lot of companies have sh!t management. Just look at this thread for proof. One week to go and asking if can punish the outgoing employee!

Lol do u think there will be less toxic companies once Gen Z become bosses themselves?

Who cares. Use ChatGPT do it instead

Move on ts, next time refine your handover process, this is expected from resign employee especially disgruntled one

Positive side now u know you have issue on the handover process maybe too depend on 1 person to do certain task. And now you can blacklist this employee and for future referral. If he's still work in same industry he's f*ct.

Understandable

My last manager was doing this to me as well, after resignation accepted; she tried to squeeze as much from me as possible.

Things that were not under me suddenly became my task, and asked me to prepare things that would carry out till year end (I resigned at almost the beginning of the year).

Safe to say that I did not leave in good terms with my manager but the other staff and colleagues were surprisingly understanding.

Cause they all knew how my manager was and she wasn’t an easy person to work with at all.

Female manager? Well that really explains everything 🤣 I don't normally bash my own species but female managers are the most ruthless managers. Makes me wonder if they're forcing themselves to be this way coz they feel like they have to prove that they're just as capable as male managers.

Yes, female and single. Not that old but definitely coming to age 😬

I think being bitchy has nothing to do with their marital status. The toxic manager that I mentioned is married with 2 kids lol.

That’s true.

Let’s just be glad that our time with them as our managers are over lol

My last resignation, back in 2020, I have almost 1.5 months of accumulated leave lol.

I did the handover before I went on to my holiday, pop back to the company slack to say goodbye 👋

Sounds like retaliation. JTK loves this scenario.

Anyway its just another week. As manager, one should already be managing and reassigning his tasks. Properly planned handover will only leave very minimal work for the staff on the last week and on the last day it is just a formality with all his company system accesses revoked.

If still insists on the staff to work on tasks up until the last hour of his last day, it speaks volumes of the manager, and the treatment that the resigning staff has been subjected to.

Always remember - majority of people leave a job not because of the job or company, they leave a toxic manager and the toxic environment they created.

Hardly got this procedure anymore:. Fcuk I don’t even put referee anymore..anyway I think its a stupid move..you expect the ex company will say good things when you “stole” their staff..

Padan muka la tak ada succession planning

Ppl already resigned

Why still wana tekan them

Salary not yet release, right?

Fire him again!

Previous place my immediate superior have weekly handover sessions right away already. Previous previous place chinaman hire 3 people half a year before I got the boot

Relax, I.am.not going to crucify u. There are some asshole bosses & it can be very stressful working in toxic company. Personally, I won't sabotage the work partly due to professionalism pride & I lucky i get along with my colleagues so don't want to put them.in a spot.

I can understand the temptation especially since not going to work in the industry anymore. My old job what I did instead was on my last day especially when going through my pay see still got deduct for come in late to work a bout 5 minutes.

I purposely rant.out.loud so that the big boss can.hear me.complanning bitterly about how the company so bloody kira despite working for them for 8 years & I always do my job.

The bugger was glaring at.me but dare not.confront because he knows that if he get into a verbal sparring . He will get in more trouble with hq & his rivals due to.office.politics. His term as gm in Malaysia was almost up & he didn't want to be sent home otherwise no.more benefits perks.

The 2 years before I quit was hell not just for.me but other long time employees as well as sikit sikit cari fault trying to get us to quit o our own since we are doing our job so can't fire us.

This post has been edited by arkasi: Apr 27 2025, 04:01 AM

Sorry, double post

This post has been edited by arkasi: Apr 27 2025, 04:00 AM

Why didn't u quit earlier then? Obviously your boss was quit firing all of you.

Pay is good & got bonus, the big boss first 3 years was ok never purposely cari pasal. Still can tahan at first until near the end had enough I just said to.myself screw it.

His predessor when term almost up more or less act the same so.know it's not.just him. work environment is good & get along with colleagues which to me is more important & no guarantee new place won't be toxic.

This thread remind unker of audit days as junior a2 staff and resign. 1 week before this s2 last minute change his working paper initial to mine and msg me why working paper not done ask me chase for supporting and finish before go. Unker politely ask him fly kite.

One time client place in new development area. When it rain and the whole place flooded halfway up to knee level. Unker was in car waiting. This same hamkachan ask unker take off socks and shoes fold up pants and walk thru the water.

If you love losing money and time then go for it. Labor Law protects the workers from scumbags like this.

Sounds like the company realized too late the importance of that person in the operation. I wish you all the best.