She’s Pretty Much Panicking After Her Boss Saw Her Job Acceptance Letter Before She Told Them She’s Quitting
If you’ve ever left a job you had a great experience with for a new job with better opportunities, you know how painful it can be to let your employer know you’re moving on.
Some prefer to be very careful with quitting a job or sending in a two-week notice so as not to burn bridges.
One woman is panicking after accidentally revealing a job acceptance email to her current employer before she could notify them that she is quitting.
She recently accepted a new job offer after working as a designer for the same company for a while.
“It was a difficult decision because I enjoy my current job, and I love my co-workers, but the new position is a better fit with the kind of work I want to be doing,” she explained.
She received an email about her acceptance from a recruiter with a subject line that said ‘Job Offer.’
She hasn’t signed a contract for the new job yet, so she hasn’t told her employer that she’d be leaving, and she’s dreading it.
“We are a small company, I’m in a close-knit team of only 4 people; all of us are good at our jobs, and we are quite busy,” she said.
“My leaving will be unexpected and not great for the team, and I do feel bad about it.”
Iona – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Unfortunately, she may have let them know sooner than she had hoped. The other day, during a video call meeting with her team and the company’s CEO, she shared her screen while they were brainstorming design solutions.
Her co-worker was telling her about a feature in Gmail that may be helpful to them, so without hesitation, she logged into her personal Gmail account.
When her inbox loaded, she didn’t realize that the email about her new job offer and acceptance would be right at the top of the screen.
One of the lines of the email mentioned accepting the new company’s job offer and was visible to everyone. It took her about ten seconds to realize what was going on.
“I immediately opened a new tab and tried to play it off,” she recalled. “I am absolutely mortified. No one let on that they saw it, but if they did, the email preview left absolutely zero doubt about what was going on.”
Now, she’s going to make sure that she signs a contract for her new job as soon as possible so that she can give notice to her current boss quickly. She plans on apologizing profusely, as this is the last way she wanted to tell her co-workers about her new job.
Have you ever accidentally screen-shared something personal during an online meeting?
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