Originally Posted By: Mackelroy
2 weeks notice is old school, the world is very mobile nowadays and your new company may not want to wait . Basically come and go when ready is the script that I see nowadays. Nobody does the two weeks thing anymore.
2 or 3 days at the most, that will give them time for an exit interview if you do that.
Maybe so, but I give two weeks.
The last two weeks at my last job were actually pretty good. Coincidentally, during my last two weeks they put gyrometers/GPS trackers in the delivery trucks for the first time...previously we were not monitored at all. The company gave a two week grace period for "infractions," and my boss told me to have at it, as the data would be relayed to him and he would know what the drivers could get away with. The big brother device in my Colorado spent the last week beeping warnings like crazy. The "fired immediately" speeding limit was something like 75 MPH...I did a sustained 90 MPH on the interstate with the tracking device going berzerk. I left on very good terms with that company, and was told I could come back at any time. My boss also thanked me for giving two weeks rather than just bailing on them. They understood why I was leaving, and it wasn't because my experience there was bad, I was just offered something better that I couldn't pass up. I was able to build bridges when leaving rather than burn them. I have no problems walking into the store I used to work at and buying things or just shooting the [censored] with my former coworkers...and I have done so.
If the relationship with the employer is bad though, or just not very good, things can go differently and one should be prepared to hit the road at any time. Every company and every employer/employee relationship is different. You kind of know whether or not two weeks is worth it, but whenever two weeks is doable, do it. You never know who you will cross paths with again and under what circumstances.
FWIW, I have also been told more than once by new employers that if I wanted to start early, I could. A lot of companies don't like waiting around for a new hire they have in the works, they just do it out of courtesy.
2 weeks notice is old school, the world is very mobile nowadays and your new company may not want to wait . Basically come and go when ready is the script that I see nowadays. Nobody does the two weeks thing anymore.
2 or 3 days at the most, that will give them time for an exit interview if you do that.
Maybe so, but I give two weeks.
The last two weeks at my last job were actually pretty good. Coincidentally, during my last two weeks they put gyrometers/GPS trackers in the delivery trucks for the first time...previously we were not monitored at all. The company gave a two week grace period for "infractions," and my boss told me to have at it, as the data would be relayed to him and he would know what the drivers could get away with. The big brother device in my Colorado spent the last week beeping warnings like crazy. The "fired immediately" speeding limit was something like 75 MPH...I did a sustained 90 MPH on the interstate with the tracking device going berzerk. I left on very good terms with that company, and was told I could come back at any time. My boss also thanked me for giving two weeks rather than just bailing on them. They understood why I was leaving, and it wasn't because my experience there was bad, I was just offered something better that I couldn't pass up. I was able to build bridges when leaving rather than burn them. I have no problems walking into the store I used to work at and buying things or just shooting the [censored] with my former coworkers...and I have done so.
If the relationship with the employer is bad though, or just not very good, things can go differently and one should be prepared to hit the road at any time. Every company and every employer/employee relationship is different. You kind of know whether or not two weeks is worth it, but whenever two weeks is doable, do it. You never know who you will cross paths with again and under what circumstances.
FWIW, I have also been told more than once by new employers that if I wanted to start early, I could. A lot of companies don't like waiting around for a new hire they have in the works, they just do it out of courtesy.
