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Can you quit like this???

Posted by: needparole
Date: 4/5/2005 11:46:09 AM

I work in a smallish place, 20 odd employees and I've worked here for 13 years. My boss is a complete nut case and treats me horrible. I've been wanting to quit for some time and my husband says I can quit in one year or sooner if we get pregnant again. I plan to be a stay at home mom with no plans to work outside the home for many years if at all. My idiot boss will be retiring in 2-3 years so chances are he will not be here if I needed a reference for another job at that time. And I don't think I would use him anyway since I can't trust he'd give me a good one. I've done my job as well as I can but he has never liked me, especially since I got him in trouble for sexual harrassement about ten years back! He got put on six weeks unpaid leave for punishment and I should have quit then but stupid me stayed here and continued to be subtly abused, in ways I cannot prove so I have no one to protect me.

My boss does exit interviews where he proceeds to tell you how bad you are and says lots of nasty things. I don't want to go through this. So I have thought about quitting at the end of my maternity leave if I am pregnant via certified mail 2 weeks before my leave is up and not even coming back. Or if I am not pregnant I have thought about taking 2 weeks vacation and quitting the same way.

Can I do this? Are there rules against it? I just want to avoid being harassed for those last two weeks and having that horrible interview.

Thanks! And no, we have no human resources to protect us.

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