I have been on LOA since March since I have a medical condition that puts me at high risk with covid. My leave officially runs out on the 20th, with the 21st being my supposed return to work date. Seeing as my lifelong medical issue has not magically disappeared, nor has this pandemic, I have to quit. While I have seen this coming, I am experiencing a great deal of confusion in the actual process of trying to do just that. I've been sent in circles for weeks between my store, the leave and disability hotline, and my doctor, trying to get information about FMLA, only to find out at the end that I'm not even qualified, and so I am left with no choice but to resign, but now with much less than 2 weeks to do so. I did try to start all this with more than 2 weeks to go, but everything took longer than expected.
How important is it that I give 2 weeks notice? Or really, what happens since I now can't? Is this going to be a problem? Or does the fact that I am already on LOA make this less of an issue? This is the only official job I've actually had, for over 3 years now, and I really would like to be able to leave on good terms for future job reference purposes.
Some other notes of possible importance, and questions about them:
- HR person at my store told me that since I have been gone for a long time, the 21st is when I would first drop back into the system as I am temporarily removed. From what I understood from her explanation, it sounds like the store wouldn't even be able to put me onto a schedule until I'm back in the system, so it wouldn't be for another few weeks until I might be on a schedule since it'd be the one they make the next week, for 2 weeks ahead of that. So like, early September. (However, I could have totally misunderstood this so if someone knows more and this sounds wrong please lmk)
- HR person is now apparently on vacation for a week, so next I would be able to speak to her would be after my return to work date. I don't want to push it with doing nothing until then
- Was able to talk to my store director today, and while she said she couldn't access things on HR person's system, she told me that all I need to do is to call the leave and disability hotline and ask them to return me from leave, and then HR/store director can "terminate" me. Is this word normal to be used if I specifically said I needed to resign? It sounds intense, almost more like what would be used if I were being fired, but I'm hoping it's just corporate lingo that sounds scarier than it is. Also, is this really all I need to do? I found the resignation page on Workday, and I am kind of concerned that my store director did not tell me about it at all when I specifically asked if there was anything I needed to submit online, or anything else I needed to do on my end after calling the hotline. It seems like I should fill this out anyway, though I am unsure what to mark as my final day with all this other confusion.
This got a lot longer than I thought it would, but TL;DR: I am reaching the end of a long LOA and need to quit but am supposed to return to work in less than 2 weeks. How much of a problem will this be? Also, should I fill out Workday resignation even if my store director said I didn't need to fill anything out? Is there anything else I should be worried about or make sure I take care of? I've never had to quit/resign before.
How important is it that I give 2 weeks notice? Or really, what happens since I now can't? Is this going to be a problem? Or does the fact that I am already on LOA make this less of an issue? This is the only official job I've actually had, for over 3 years now, and I really would like to be able to leave on good terms for future job reference purposes.
Some other notes of possible importance, and questions about them:
- HR person at my store told me that since I have been gone for a long time, the 21st is when I would first drop back into the system as I am temporarily removed. From what I understood from her explanation, it sounds like the store wouldn't even be able to put me onto a schedule until I'm back in the system, so it wouldn't be for another few weeks until I might be on a schedule since it'd be the one they make the next week, for 2 weeks ahead of that. So like, early September. (However, I could have totally misunderstood this so if someone knows more and this sounds wrong please lmk)
- HR person is now apparently on vacation for a week, so next I would be able to speak to her would be after my return to work date. I don't want to push it with doing nothing until then
- (From what I've been told during this whole 5 month long leave saga she's the only person at the store who can actually do stuff wrt my leave and any time I've had to call about it it was always "call back another day" if she wasn't there instead of offering anyone else who could help)
- Was able to talk to my store director today, and while she said she couldn't access things on HR person's system, she told me that all I need to do is to call the leave and disability hotline and ask them to return me from leave, and then HR/store director can "terminate" me. Is this word normal to be used if I specifically said I needed to resign? It sounds intense, almost more like what would be used if I were being fired, but I'm hoping it's just corporate lingo that sounds scarier than it is. Also, is this really all I need to do? I found the resignation page on Workday, and I am kind of concerned that my store director did not tell me about it at all when I specifically asked if there was anything I needed to submit online, or anything else I needed to do on my end after calling the hotline. It seems like I should fill this out anyway, though I am unsure what to mark as my final day with all this other confusion.
This got a lot longer than I thought it would, but TL;DR: I am reaching the end of a long LOA and need to quit but am supposed to return to work in less than 2 weeks. How much of a problem will this be? Also, should I fill out Workday resignation even if my store director said I didn't need to fill anything out? Is there anything else I should be worried about or make sure I take care of? I've never had to quit/resign before.
