• Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    it’s really unprofessional to present the act of quitting as requiring 2 weeks’ notice

    If it’s part of the contract then it’s not unprofessional at all to bring up the terms that you’ve agreed on. My job requires a month’s notice and it wouldn’t be unprofessional for my employer to bring that up if I tried to quit on the spot.

    That being said, I don’t live in a place with “at-will employment”, which is a fucking travesty and should never have been allowed in the first place.

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      9 months ago

      I’m not from the US but I always assumed “at-will employment” works both ways. You’re telling me it doesn’t?

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        9 months ago

        It’s not typically written into the contract for most jobs I’ve seen, but it’s still considered very unprofessional to leave without giving the company time to find a replacement. It doesn’t just mess with the company or your boss; it messes with your coworkers, too, who now have to pick up the slack.

        Basically, while it’s not written into your contract, it’s still considered socially unacceptable not to give a two week notice barring any unusual circumstances.

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          9 months ago

          It’s not unprofessional at all; at worst, it’s discourteous, because notice of departure has zero to do with your professional conduct, it’s a courtesy. You can professionally quit on the spot, look:

          “Due to a change of personal circumstances, I will be resigning immediately, effective at the end of the day. I will work with you to make this transition as smooth as possible within that timeframe, but it is not negotiable.”

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            9 months ago

            That quote you posted would actually be fine, so you’re right.

            I think discourteous and unprofessional is a difference without distinction here though.

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              9 months ago

              I can understand going either way on that because they’re semantically similar. However, I personally draw a distinction here because I’d much more readily accept being considered discourteous at work than unprofessional.

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          9 months ago

          Na my dude, as long it’s not considered at least as unprofessional for companies to let people on the spot they can go an fuck them self.

          Want a mandated notice period? Put it in contract for both parties. That’s how it works in countries with sane worker laws.

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          9 months ago

          It’s always been in my contracts, a month’s notice is the norm here. I’ve never broken that but I’ve also been fortunate enough to work at places where work and life are balanced. I wouldn’t have wanted to disrupt the work for my colleagues and my managers have always shown their respect for me to the point that I want to work with them instead of against them. I don’t think I’ll ever work for an employer that puts the company over the wellbeing of their employees. I’ve seen what being a real team means. People cooperate freely and go the extra mile for eachother if necessary and cut massive amounts of slack to anybody in the team that’s having a tough time and needs to focus on their life outside of work for a bit.

          That said I won’t ever get any bonuses or make large amounts of money in my career either but that’s not what I’m after if it would mean putting work before life.

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          7 months ago

          If it’s considered ‘unprofessional’ then that is a raging misconception. At will contracts also mess wirh the company and your coworkers, demanding a courtesy you won’t give your workers is horseshit.

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        9 months ago

        I’ll be honest, I’ve never lived in a place that has at-will employment so I don’t know the details, but I’d also assume that it works both ways.

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      7 months ago

      Mine tend to ball out to a month’s notice (on either side) for every year employed at the company…but i do business critical shit. I do not get the impression this is what is in the text conversation depicted.