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Can't be... cost of gas is down, 7 years of obama, the country is in great shape......

Sorry to hear this.

Bingo!

A lot of places require 2 weeks notice to be paid for your accrued vacation time etc. If you leave without giving notice you could risk that payment. I have witnessed employees give longer notices to their employers to help them find a replacement only to no longer earn vacation time etc during their time left at the company.

that being said, the company I work for is very good about making sure there are no suprises. They will let you know months in advance if your work is not fitting in with the rest, or meeting expectations.They will also let you know if a work slowdown is coming and there might be a lay off. To my knowledge, the two lay off victims were given a month severance, and the one person who was let go with no notice due to his impact of office morale, was given a good severance as well.

I worked for an ass once. When I gave notice, somehow my schedule got pretty busy. The second week I reminded him of some crap that he laid on me about a year prior and said he'd have the next 4 days to think about it, since I wouldn't be around.

The look was priceless.

Felt good to be a gangster.....

Absolutely give 2 weeks unless the company has a history of firing people in their last 2 weeks. This was the case years ago when I worked at Capital One. They were firing just about everybody who'd given 2 weeks, then stomping and screaming if somebody left without notice.

I gave the notice. And got threatened a couple times in my last 2 weeks, but not fired.

All my life I gave a notice. Sometimes two weeks and other times a month, depending how important my duties were to the company. Some here may remember me posting about the company where I was working last year. Payroll checks were bouncing, creditors were not getting paid, and the owner was double gouging by get money from the bank on items shipped at the time an order came in when we didn't have any material. The owner of the building was a friend. He told me the first rent check bounced. The metal supply store owner told me the first check she received was written on a closed account. Since I didn't need the job I was enjoying myself with all the soap opera foolishness. I was working in the grinding room working with industrial knives. There was an constant chance of getting cut. It was kind of an on going saga. By reading over the shoulder of the HR lady after hours I discovered the owner let the workman's compensation laps. I told her, "I won't be here tomorrow. I'm quitting." And that was that.

Now that there is some funny schit!

I have always thought that it was appropriate to give one pay-period of notice when you were going to leave a job.

As an employer, I always gave a severance package to people who I let go, unless they stole from me or misused company equipment. I didn't give notice, but I paid them whatever was due for the current pay period, plus the next two weeks of pay, plus one week of pay for each year of service, plus payment for any accrued vacation, plus I continued all company paid benefits for up to 90 days.