Post-resignation Syndrome

Post-resignation syndrome is a common medical condition only affecting employees who have resigned from their current position. Around 80% of all adults suffer from this condition.

The virus causing the condition develops quickly after the person has commenced full-time adult employment, through contact with other sufferers, but symptoms only appear after resignation.

Symptoms vary widely, but normally include headaches, stomach pains and other symptoms typical of the common cold. One interesting fact is that the symptoms usually appear for only 24 hours. The patient therfore only needs to be absent from work for one day.

The symptoms appear suddenly, most commonly in the evening of the penultimate day of the working week, or a Sunday - resulting in the sufferer being unable to work on Fridays, Saturdays or Mondays. Symptoms are rarely evident until the employee has left the office, and disapperance is sudden and complete. One unusual symptom is a sudden forgetfulness, or disrespect towards seniors, which explains why some sufferers do not report their illness.

It should also be noted that this illness only occurs in those who have missed less than 14 days of work through sickness in the previous year. Interestingly enough, 14 days is the number of days for which employees are entitled to paid sick leave.

For such persons, the symptoms of the illness only last until the 14-day mark has been reached. The medical world is still unable to explain this unusually strong (alomost total) correlation between the duration of symptoms, and the entitlement of the employee to paid sick leave. It could be some kind of 21st Century "Smart" virus.

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