Aside from the job interview, the second most stressful day at the office tends to be the day you announce you’re leaving. Will you be shown the door instantly, or cajoled to stay? Will you be able to resist reeling off a list of criticisms about co-workers and company policies?
“The central tenet of resigning from a job is: Don’t burn bridges,” says Andrew Atkins, a former human resources executive at Fidelity Investments and Bank of America who now works at the Boston consulting firm Interaction Associates. “You want to be as professional on your way out as you were on your way in.”
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If your boss never did anything for you or your employees or for that matter, never took you and/or your employees out to lunch to show appreciation, then don't worry about giving notice if you already got the job: the boss wasn't worried about you and your employees, why should you worry about him? For a reference? Stuff your reference.
User_4408549 touches upon an issue which occurred to me as I read the article. How should an employee act if s/he is fleeing a very poor work environment and subpar management? That scenario occurs more often than one might think.