My MIL is 52 and retired today from CFO role at a local non-profit.

She gave her 2 weeks notice, since she did so:
-3 of her closest staff quit
-1 other retired
-The remainder of her staff has hounded her to not leave
-2 board members left
-New Executive Director (reason she's leaving) when from maniac to kitten

And the list goes on.

Definitely the most entertaining series of events post a 2-week notice I've ever heard. :)

I've given as much as two months notice before leaving a job. That particular one was for the State of Oregon and I gave that lengthy notice because the hiring process is so slow. I didn't want to leave my co-workers in a bind.

I normally give two weeks notice and I'm always prepared to be shown out the door on the same day. Hasn't happened yet, but I've seen it happen to so many people that I always prepare myself for the same treatment.

On one occasion, I gave about an hour's notice... I was working as a sales/promotion position for a large auto-body repair shop. The office manager was a snake in the grass. When the owner was on vacation, she told him that I didn't show up on time, didn't talk to any customers, left early, etc. None of which was true but he took her word for it and fired me - zero notice. I packed my office and said good-bye to the guys in the shop. They "filled in" the owner on the truth over the weekend. He called me multiple times and convinced me to come back. If we had not had a two-month old baby at home, I would have told him piss off. But you'll eat a lot of crow when you have no other job and baby to take care of... I came back on Monday, unpacked my office and reviewed what I'd done in his absence. All was good though I must say, the office manager and I had a rather chilled relationship. I worked for two weeks then got a phone call from a prior employer. She needed help desperately - like could I come TOMORROW (a Saturday)? I told her I would be there. Walked into the owner's office and explained that today was my last day - meaning that I would be here about another hour. The owner really fussed up - demanded two weeks notice, etc. I looked him in the eye and said that I figured we were about square. He thought about it for a minute, wrote me my last check (instead of having to wait for it) and we hugged on the way out the door.

I'd like to think it was a learning experience for both of us.

angela

Just walking out is bad form. I'll bet the new employer took note of that. If he's OK with it, bad for your friend to be working for someone like that. If he's not OK with it, it's still bad for your friend that he knows what kind of employee your friend is going to be. Just because they don't have a severance package doesn't mean they would have kicked him out the minute he announced his intention to resign.

The last job I had before starting out on my own was a very quick exit. Company was having money issues and bills at the wholesalers not getting paid. My last cheque didn't clear. I heard from a fellow tech that there was a few staff that did not get paid. Got in my service truck and started to drive home. The phone started ringing in about 10 min. Text messages started to come in about needing me to call the office. I pulled into my driveway, emptied out all my tools then proceeded to drive my truck to the next town and called my wife to come get me. Parked the truck in the covered parking at the mall in a tow away zone. Text the boss to go find the truck. The GPS doesn't work in those lots. Did a return to default on the phone, tossed it on the seat, locked the key in the truck. I never looked back

LOL. That's awesome. I walked out on only one employer and it was early in my career. Who asks their network admin to make coffee and drop packages off at fedex? Anyhow, set my screen saver to "I quit" and left. I too never looked back.

Can you name an employer who gives a fired or laid off employee 2 weeks notice? If it's bad form to end a relationship that day, should it not go both ways?

Just because it should be that way, does not mean it actually is that way.

Well, they do have ways of letting you know short of saying, "Your last day will be....XX." Usually a performance "improvement" plan means you will be fired by a date certain. A predecessor at my current job was put on one of those and it was so unrealistic and crazy that the guy who later got his office left that PIP on the white board, just as a reminder.

Smart people do not needlessly burn bridges.

oh and another thing, if you are a douchebag boss who does nothing but take credit for my work and you eventually get fired, don't use ME as a reference 5 years later.
That was a good day.

If love to use this sometime. Just wish I'd found it before I quit my last job lol.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1433968934.jpg

Unfortunately, some of 'em have "peter principled" themselves and it's a two-way street :D. I LIVED in the corporate world of lies and merger (takeover) after merger...to me it's a two-way street as I watched literally tens of thousands lose their jobs. No way would I "walk out" on a small operation without due cause, but one of the BEST moves I ever made was telling a Sr. Wachovia VP (....friend too, I was an AVP - top IT systems/networking techie), to consider the bridge "burned". LIfe's too short to take crap from idiots...

Oh yeah...my reputation did follow me in my next corporate gig a few blocks down the street for 11 more years...was treated like royalty :D.

And for large layoffs you have the WARN act, 60 days notice.

Me.

I gave 6 *months* notice when I left my faculty position. I knew they'd have to do a search and wanted to give them ample time. They needed me to teach spring semester and finish up with my research group so the last thing they'll do is march me out the door.

Different gigs have different timetables. imho it is bad form to not give notice if you're leaving a "regular" job (day-to-day/construction/etc are a different gig). DOesn't matter what a company does or doesn't do - if you want another job then you need to behave in a way that will be appropriate for your NEXT employer, not your current one.

For sure, probably more like 2 hours if the job require you to say, Wants some fry with that?

After 18 years at one company, I wasn't given two weeks. I was RIF'd on a Friday with a couple hundred other folks and told good luck.

A few years later, I left another job with a text message to my manager from my new job, saying I'm resigning that day. Second shift and mandatory every other weekend was for the birds. I was never going back and didn't care about a burned bridge.

My wife was brought into the company to do some straightening out of large accounts. She didn't know it at the time she was hired, it just grew and became part of her responsibilities. Then one day it was full on and solely her job. after three years of this mess and everything was humming along fine, they hire her some help. She trained this young lady for a few months and one morning, she was called in and was let go. They watched her pack up and wanted gone by lunch. No two weeks pay, nothing. I told her to take some valuable info and contacts with her immediately. Phone rang that very evening at 9pm(dealings with overseas) with a bunch of questions on how to do this and that. They offered her two weeks pay for working another week. My wife, the softie, gave up a little info before I tore the phone off her hands and said now she's a consultant. This was her immediately boss whom I have had dinner with and my wife and him get along well. He had to do her job and didn't know how, so I told him her fees are $500 an hour with a min. of three hours per secession. The SOB continued to call for the net 4-5 days and nights asking to talk to her. This was without pay. Like someone said, sometimes, you need to fire your boss. There's another bridge to cross. She hasn't cross another yet. Instead became a stay home mom. Better for all of us.

"I just work here and some day I won't....just like EVERYONE else in this organization"

Is that giving notice? ...became a favorite saying of mine after a couple of decades of corporate nonsense, layoffs, lies, and such :p