I was told today that I’ll probably be allowed to leave the organisation early, as soon as I get a few things ticked off my list.
“I understand you’ve handed in your notice,” said J, “and I want to talk to you about that on Wednesday, if you’re around. As a you-and-me thing, not a company thing.”
“Sure,” I said. We then talked about our committments for that day, as I may be going on a junket with a colleague.
I was then given the good news that as soon as I get the one thing that I’ve currently got open on my desk sorted and closed, then I can go. “No point in postponing it, really,” J shrugged.
Looking forward to what Wednesday brings. I’ve been mulling this over in my head: if they ask why I’m leaving, what do I say?
I’m tempted to just say “look, I don’t want to leave with a cloud over me. This isn’t the job for me, and I’m not the person you need in your organisation right now. I don’t want to annoy anyone and I don’t want you, or CSL, to annoy me. So it’s in everyone’s interests for me to go.”
We’ve come a long way, as is detailed by my writing on the wiki. I’ve started writing a “user manual” for the new network manager, which, I imagine, will be the person that I took over from (who has since been reinstalled elsewhere). There’s the content management system on the website, oh and the bits of the template that you need to edit to do this, that and the other. Oh, and the bit of flash – that needs to be handled like so. And the DNS on the network is a little flaky – oh, I’ll need to put that bit in about the OpenDNS system, and the support system that we use. Ooo, the email. That’ll need documenting. And the hosting. And, and, and…
I’ve got my work cut out for me, but I think the best thing to do is get the network documented, get my head down and get out. The sooner I leave, the better.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should say at my exit interview?
