I work for an Indian Microsoft office. A couple of weeks back, my manager asked me to travel to US to attend a conference at Redmond office in end of May. Today, I received an offer letter from an organisation I want to join!
When should I tell this to my manager given the following variables:
* Being on payroll till 30june makes me eligible for year end bonus so I don't want to resign before 15th May.
* I would like to travel to US but I feel that Microsoft would want to cancel my tickets and everything because my travel might not be of much use.
* Would like to avoid burning bridges.
* I'm flying out around mid of may.
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If it isn’t anything major, they may just say go anyway—talk to them. After all they were the ones wanting to send you in the first place.
What’s in it for you? If it’s just a trip, like someone said, a 2k holiday doesn’t seem to be worth this kind of hassle. Assuming you’re junior if this is a draw for you; there will be many other opportunities in the future, and also more money, so I wouldn’t try to optimise for this.
Also 1) if you believe that your manager will be pissed off enough to cancel a booked trip out of spite, you might also believe that they will lowball your rewards, 2) if you’re leaving for a competitor it is standard to enforce walkout and max 2 weeks notice.