"Claire Rand" wrote in message
news:Fq2dnes7PZ2uDLXVnZ2dnUVZ8uydnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk...
> LionOfTheSouth wrote:
>> Can I hand in my notice at work whilst on annual leave? if I am off for
>> two weeks can I just take my resignation letter in on the Friday of the
>> 1st week and leave onthe following Friday?
>
> used to work a shift pattern, 2 days 2 nights four off.. 10 week cycle
> last 14 days as holiday (so in effect an 18 day holiday on the end of the
> shift pattern).
>
> came to leave, handed my notice in during a four day gap right before my
> final four shifts. handed it to reception, apparently they had to open all
> letters for 'security' no problem, got a reciept stating it was my letter
> of resignation.
>
> came in first day, nothing said.
> second day nothing said
> nothing said on nights.
>
> btw I told my team leader ont he first day, seemed the right thing to do.
>
> 18 days gap
>
> 1st day back, nothing said
> 2nd day back, half three.. asked to go to managers office....
>
> told that my notice only ran from when they recieved it, which i agreed
> and showed them a copy of the reciept.. no they said from when *they*
> recieved it.. told them the company had got it weeks earlier, the fact he
> had only just opened it wasn;t my problem.
>
> told HR the same thing ten minutes later at the 'exit interview' which was
> very brief. I told them I was leaving for another job, nothing more, no
> point burning bridges.
>
> did my two night shifts the second of which the boss had left a note i was
> to be escorted off the site at the end of the shift, well i handed all my
> passes etc in. they didn't want my work boots, but then neither did i..
>
> i was asked to escort myself off site, since it was raining and the guard
> said "I'm not that petty", but could i tick a box to say i had been
> escorted off. no problems.
>
> i dare say holiday is the same, you have given them the correct notice,
> the fact you are on leave for the last bit of it is not your issue. indeed
> how elese would you get the holidays?
My issue is , of course, I want to be paid for it . If I give the required
one weeks notice whilst on leave ,could they then say "well actually, due to
only being 7.5 months into the year you are not eligible to be paid for the
last week(or part of it)"?
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