Fine. I'll go play where I'm wanted.

My week so far:
- Formally accept new job
- Resign from current job
- Manage to be stunned by my manager, once again

I am ego-centric enough to think that my boss would be somewhat disappointed that I announced that I’m leaving. And for the record, I don’t mean beg me to stay, or pull out her hair and sob “what will I do without you” kind of reactions. However, some kind of recognition that I had made a difference would have been appreciated.

What I certainly didn’t want is to have my manager cut me off during my opening sentence to tell me that she knows I’m handing in my resignation. She admitted that she had even bragged to people that she knew I was going to resign before our meeting. She almost seemed to delight in knowing that she had picked up on signs over the past week that this might be coming.

Yes she congratulated me on my new job. Yes she made it easy for me to tell her the news, but seriously – you are telling me that you knew I was quitting and the standout point was that you get to go around and say “I told you so” to your colleagues.

Is it me or is she missing something here?

Unless she wanted to me to leave (which very well may be the case), why would a manager admit that they knew an employee was planning on leaving and didn’t do or say anything?

For the record, I am leaving on good terms, with a good performance record, having successfully completed a number of projects recently. What became clear is that I was seen as a short-term employee who was never expected to stay, who was told repeatedly that there was no room for her to go, and that she was fully expected to move along...any day now.

All I can say is that that brief conversation only confirmed that I made the right decision.