My future employer has applied for security clearance for me. My background and contacts checks are in progress. Currently I am employed by a pvt sector company where the manager is very rude and nasty. He has let go of a couple people out of team of 4 recently. he is a very mean, verbally abusive person. I have reached out to HR but no help as he is a partner at the firm.
In this situation, if I resign from my job does that impact my ongoing clearance process ( btw this is via another company and not my current employer ) or should I stay back and let him fire me ( my fear is that he may write something negative). I really appreciate your help and insight into this.
Keep in mind the security clearance process takes a while and so leaving your current employment may leave you with no income. With that said, as long as you don’t have any sort of reprimands, discipline, or negative information from that employer then simply resigning is not going to affect your investigation. If you are fired, reprimanded, quit in lieu of firing, etc. then those issues will have to be discussed and investigated.
There is nothing wrong with resigning unless you’ve been officially warned that you will be fired if you don’t resign. But if you can’t afford to be unemployed and don’t have something else lined up, don’t resign until you actually have an EOD scheduled. Then you can file an official complaint against your boss so that there is a record. Make sure HR gives you a copy of the complaint record. You can show that to the investigator when you explain why you quit/got fired. If they have warned you will be fired, then file the official complaint now before they fire you.
Personally I think you should stay on and when you do resign for the next job you can tell them your reasons for leaving with confidence. You can also give HR some documentation on this jerk. If you resign now you let the bad guy/s get their way.