Due to a mix of things I set my RLE date for work to be Nov 1. The company policy says you should give 3 months notice sooo... I told my boss and his boss yesterday.
Now I will admit that I was terrified of this. It's the jumping off the cliff moment, or was in my mind.
So thus said, their reaction was very positive. They said they wanted to go above and beyond to make sure I felt comfortable and hoped I didn't want to change anything about my job. This was great as I didn't want it to affect my job and worried that at best there would be some changes like try to move me to another org or some such thing.
I was apologetic for any disturbance this would cause and my boss' boss grabbed my shoulder and said it was nothing and what I was going through was a lot bigger.
Later in the evening he sent mail thanking me for the meeting and having the courage to tell them. He also reiterated his support for anything I needed to make this smooth.
It's still scary but definitely going in the right direction. I wish that this would be the norm for everybody else but wanted to share just so everybody here knew that sometimes employers can be real cool about this.
