Last year I was poached through a recruiter by my current employer. In the year my mental and emotional health has taken a toll due to the ongoing situation, how I am being treated by my direct reports and how my role is ever changing. I go to work most days feeling like I have a target on my back or that a case is being built against me. I had a conversation with my manager to work on a mutually beneficial exit plan for me as I feel that issues will never resolve and will remain volatile causing me further health issues. My manager agreed to my plan. After hugging me told me that they would discuss the plan with their manager and told me that they felt bad that it has come to this. Days later in person they hit me with a request for a resignation letter which I replied with that was not part of our agreement and since that day, used Teams to request the resignation letter again. My plan was to have an existing direct report take an acting position so that I could focus on an ongoing implementation, train the acting manager and with support resign from board once everything is stabilized in approximately 1 year to the end of Go live this year.
If I send in a resignation letter regardless of how I word it to protect myself can they have me resign earlier than agreed upon at anytime! How do I protect myself?