I fully expected to be walked out today. Actually it was part of my EVIL plan! MUWAHAHA!!! :D

I didn't want to stay for the two weeks because of what has been mentioned. You kind of lose your motivation... but i would of gladly sat down this morning and gone over my projects to help out the next guy.

I just got off the phone with my new employer. Looks like i start in the morning. No rest for the wicked...;)

Mother walked me out of the house...said to never come back...since that day Mother and I have not been on friendly terms.

I got walked out by Verizon, even though I wasn't going to a competitor. They even asked me to sign a statement admitting that I had booked bogus sales, since they paid commissions long before clients got billed, and said they might have to yank a commission. I protested that I had never booked a bogus sale and my bigger ones were even voice-verified by a third party agency. So they tore up the paper and said no problem. WTF? Then they walked me out. I still get calls from recruiters asking me to interview for that same job.

Can you get me a deal on a hip resurface? ;)

Give me a little while to get settled in. Then i can start working my magic...

Great news on the new job, Shawn. Still have the titanium monkey? :D

When you get settled, put me down for 2 knees!!!! I want the very latest technology!

After that crap they pulled last time with the move to Cali, I think you're better off....

True. Last company would start a long drawn out campaign against anyone they did not like. A horrible place to work for all involved. Then I get to this new place and they have group being laid off - but they give 6 months notice as new procedures are put in place. Then you have all these gumpy old ladies around.. You can be at a company for a month or 25 years and it means nothing. Always be ready to leave.

Saaweeeet!
C

Good advice - and yes, depending on the person and position will determine whether I let them continue to work their notice out. Most times we seperate quickly on good terms and I have hired a number of people back (the good ones anyway) that have determined that it wasn't actually greener.

I hate to disappoint, but it's probably not personal.

Being walked out is the norm now. At least if you're in a position where you could leave with a lot of key proprietary info, or have direct/indirect access to cash. They're afraid you may do something malicious if you stay.

I've been "walked out" of several jobs. A few I’ve been rehired at later on. Others gave me excellent references.

That is SO different from my experience.

When the dairy I had worked for for 20+ years was closing distribution centers, my boss sat down with me and gave me 8 months notice and outlined the package they were giving me after the end date.

They had seen the effects on customer loyality when sales people had been axed by our competitor and wanted no part of that sort of black eye.

I worked right up to the last day.

Is there really no trust?

Les

I used to design fuel cells before I switched to the oil patch. We had one of our senior scientists resign once and he was walked out. Like you, he was working on something only he was privy to and was planning to spend his last 2 weeks finishing it up, documenting his work etc. It was a stupid HR decision to do this and it never happened again.

Anyway, the company that this fellow went to later bought our company - I'm sure that that HR jerk felt a bit uncomfortable working with Peng again.

When I quit, I was working on a project for the California Energy Commision and even came in 2 weeks after my last day to complete my report foir the CEC with the required amount of test data (the fuel cell system needed to have a certain number of hours on it as part of the test).

When did you work in as a stripper?

I'd a fired him too... no offense intended.

I have to say, I'd walk you out too. My old company in Germany let a sales guy stay two months after he anounced he was going to a competitor!!!! WTF

Shawn,
Congrats on the new job!!

I feel pretty good about it. Like I said I expected to be walked out...thats just the way it is.

What floors me is that no one asked a single question about that project I was working on, like what have you tried? or Where are you on this? or what is your protocol? just nothing... the only person in the company that was working on the project and they walk me out the door. I bet someone is going to be in a meeting this week explaining why they have to start over...

One of our IT guys (one of the good ones) gave her notice. Not going to a competitor, not going to anyone in the industry--was getting married and moving interstate. Got 'walked" that day despite her protests.
Long story short, when they tracked her down on her honeymoon to ask her the passwords to all her encrypted files for the new system she had been assigned to sort out, her answer was anatomically novel but not overly helpful.