Anybody ever wonder about giving notice to quit your job?

[elocs]

How your employer expects you to give them a week or 2 weeks notice, but if they are firing you they give you no notice at all. When I quit a job I look at it like I am firing my employer although I usually give a notice. It's just curious to me about the double standard when it comes to ending a job in an "at will" position, how your employer expects a notice but will give you none (I'm not talking about a layoff.)

[old mark]

1. Most employers feel that employees are bound by "rules", but

that employers are not.
Just more bad behavior on their part.

mark

[Critters2]

2. I have to give them 2 months notice. They have to give me 2 months

notice. I'm told though, by those who've been through it, that when they fire you, those 2 months of still living in their house can be mighty uncomfortable.

[Kat45]

3. No notice, and they immediately escort you out the door.

Quite undignified.

[elocs]

8. Which is why I quit at the end of my work day. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. You are not obligated to give any notice at all.

There's a normal business practice of giving notice of two weeks (or one pay period), but they can't make you stay. A guy at my work up and quit a few weeks ago with no notice. We suspected he was up to something because hed removed all his personal stuff from his cube the week before, but he never said anything to anybody. But one morning he came in early, announced he was quitting, and left. There was nothing anybody could do about it. But it caused plenty of inconvenience for a lot of people who suddenly got stuck doing his work, and if he ever expects to get any kind of positive job recommendation from anybody at this company (let alone the managers), he will be out of luck.

[bluesbassman]

5. The other factor is being "re-hireable".

Most employers will hold it against you for re-hiring if you don't give any notice. Always someting to consider. Also, I believe employers are allowed to say whether you are re-hireable or not when contacted by new employers.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. This guy hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of being rehired.

[elocs]

7. About a year ago I quit a job specifically so I would not be rehired by them.

It was their policy that they would not rehire you if you did not give notice. However, when I told my boss I was quitting he said, "It's just a job. The most important thing is to be happy". I never realized he was so philosophical. He gave me his business card and told me to be sure to use him as a reference. I have been rehired at another job since then, so I knew he gave me a good recommendation (I also had a copy of my last work performance evaluation where he rated me as an outstanding employee.

Employment at this place was at will, but about 3 weeks before I quit they changed their rules to say that if you quit without giving notice you would forfeit any remaining PTO (paid time off) and so I lost 20 hours even though I had never been late and never missed a day of work.

[Kat45]

14. What does "re-hireable" mean and how is it determined?

I've never heard that bit of corporate-speak before.

[OmahaBlueDog]

9. If you are leaving the position, and want a good reference, or might want to return....

...give two weeks.

Some employers do give notice.

Some employers will ask you not to return once you give notice.

[XemaSab]

10. Do it like my former colleague did:

Ballpoint scrawled on a sheet of torn out notebook paper, effective immediately. :P

[Turbineguy]

11. After I got fired by one company

I was told that being fired by them made me immensely hireable anywhere else.

[hellbound-liberal]

12. If you want a reference you should give notice. When I was running a restaurant,

two things that we could legally say about former employees was whether or not they were eligible for rehire and whether or not they gave notice when they left. It might have changed since then but, if you want a reference, I think two-week notice is a good idea. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet!

[elocs]

13. I gave no notice, but still got a good reference.

Of course, they talked to my boss and not to HR. At my job interview I even told them I had quit without notice and exactly why I did it. I realize my situation is the exception and not the rule, but there is a double standard in this situation between employers and employees.

[undeterred]

15. When I applied at one agency it was in their contract

that you had to give two weeks notice to leave an assignment or you would automatically have your pay reduced to something like $2.50 an hour for whatever time you had left. So if you gave ten days notice they would screw you for 10 days. Basically, if you weren't going to give 2 weeks notice just don't come back.