[miked85]

This is completely untrue, at least with 'at will' employments. Once you resign, you quit.

Working for any additional length of time after that often occurs if it is in both parties best interests. If it isn't though, the relationship is usually terminated immediately after resignation.

[jlokier]

> This is completely untrue, at least with 'at will' employments.

The sentence you are replying to literally excludes 'at will' countries from the scope of their point...

>> In most countries (which are not "at will"), ...

[miked85]

Sorry, I was replying to the first sentence.

[jlokier]

Then you are still mistaken.

Once you resign you do indeed quit.

But when you say you are going to resign at a future date, especially when you say you are going to resign at a future date only if certain conditions occur but will not resign if they don't... then you haven't resigned yet.

That's not special to employments. Similar applies to contracts in general, where a party tells the other party that at some future date, and/or under some condition, they are committing to exercise some clause in the contract. It's almost as if the message is a courtesy notice, an advance warning, of what the first party is going to do. They haven't done it.

In 'at will' locations the effect is much the same as quitting the same day because the company has the power to 'let you go' without giving a reason anyway - although the company must still comply with the contract, discrimination law, its normal operating procedure etc.

But even though the effect is much the same as quitting immediately - you are let go and employment ends - for anything where the difference between 'resigned' and 'terminated' matters, for example rights to government support, or loss-of-job insurance payouts, the company deciding to terminate early is a 'termination'.

[miked85]

> But when you say you are going to resign at a future date, especially when you say you are going to resign at a future date only if certain conditions occur but will not resign if they don't... then you haven't resigned yet

Maybe if you want to play semantics, sure. In the eyes of the employer though, you have effectively resigned.