How to quit like a boss
This post is filled with bad and naive advice.<p>I have thankfully worked in mostly rational companies and been able to be honest with managers about what is or isn&#x27;t working. At my last job though I spent more than a year saying repeatedly that I wasn&#x27;t happy with my project work and that I wanted more pay. Annual review rolls around and they didn&#x27;t fix it. I had a new job offer in a month and when I put in my notice my manager was shocked. He&#x27;s a good guy but he was also my boss which means he&#x27;s only going to pay me enough to stay. Just accept that fact and move on.<p>Match your notice period to the handover period - I&#x27;m sorry but everything about this section is wrong. Nothing you are working on is so important that you can&#x27;t put it in a good state for someone else to pick up in your absence in two weeks. You stayed for 10 months? I can&#x27;t tell if you or your employer was the one being strung along.<p>&quot;Your new role, if you have one arranged, should respect your decision to be professional about your handover period. They’ll wait, don’t worry.&quot;<p>No - The hiring market for developers is red hot right now, no doubt about it, but potential employers are not going to sit around with a position open for months. Potential employers are not going to be impressed at your loyalty to a previous employer. They will think you are wasting their time and will probably be working to put someone else in that position while you dawdle.<p>The two weeks notice period is the conventional standard and everyone knows what it means. Stick to that and you&#x27;ll be fine.