Soo i've been working somewhere for a month and have been given a much better job offer. Better opportunities, much better pay, potential to work from home once a week etc. I definitely want to take it and based on my contract I am still in the probation period so don't technically have to give any notice at my current job. However I wanted to give them a week just to be nice and soften the blow of them spending a month training me just for me to leave.
I've just come to discover that my manager is on annual leave for the whole of next week so I can't give in my notice to her. That was fine as I decided I would just tell her manager but I have just found out that his wife died this morning and so he will be on bereavement leave for a while. Now i'm in a really sticky situation because I can either
- Wait for her to come back from annual leave and leave without notice..
- Or call her during her annual leave and tell her i'm leaving even though she told everyone not to contact her while she is off.
My new job have said they can't delay my start as they would have to redo all the documents and get all the partners to sign them again. So i have to start on September 7th.
I'm just really stressed because i've had to give notice once before but never in such an awkward situation. Any advice?