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Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by gnicholas »

hinkley wrote: post #71
monster_group wrote: post #9

This is terrible advice. Great that it has worked for the author but it does not mean it's a good idea for everyone. 2 weeks is the standard and as long as you give that you maintain good relations. Most people are not as valuable or important as they like to think they are. I have seen very important people leave / fired and things still go on. (Twitter is still working - isn't it?) Once you tell that you are leavin…

Two weeks is all most recruiters have ever offered me, and some did so begrudgingly. Which is weird because if I say yes that actually makes me a worse hire.

Interesting, I was able to get a couple months when I switched jobs a while back. I think recruiters probably figure the longer the window, the more chance you go do something else instead.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by CoastalCoder »

grimraxaphon wrote: post #25

When you've been laid off, how much notice did your employer give you?

For me, it was:

- accounts locked moments before the layoff announcement.

- kept on payroll until the next month, so we'd get another month of benefits

- given about 6.5 weeks of severance

- allowed to keep my computer

It was really nice of them.

My only sadness is that there was no chance to say goodbyes, which sucked because we had a wonderful team. I finally realized this downside of team building.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by etc-hosts »

There's no Field in the global Google doc Who To Hire for "they were nice and gave a lot of notice before quitting"

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but I can see how giving a lot of notice will make your manager happy, and could lead to a job lead later in your career. It happened to me.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by 1MachineElf »

I've done this, and it's always worked out well for me. My past three jobs received a 1 month notice. The one before that, I told the hiring manager up front that I'd work for them for exactly 1 year.

Most of the comments here are against this, many saying they were prematurely removed, some immediately. Perhaps it is different for FAANG and other SV companies typical of HN?

Possible reasons why my experience has been different:

- I've never worked in a role that is easily replaceable. I've worked mostly consulting for the past decade. The industry has a lot of hiring friction, like extensive background checks, making it hard to give up and replace quality workers. In most cases, even my long notices did not give the employers enough time to find a replacement for me to train.

- My direct supervisors, managers above them, and myself, have always shared mutual respect - even when they are difficult people. We all also understand our compensation is mostly related to what customers are paying, so there is no expectation that our salaries can be magically increased.

Granted, I did leave one employer over a decade ago with just a day's notice. The company had a lot of problems and hadn't paid me for a few months already, so quitting was well overdue.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by deeviant »

I feel this advice ignores the most common scenarios in which one would need to give notice in the first place.

If you want to a make a move, you interview, see if you get the position, then give notice. You're not going to want to give notice before you know you get the position, and if you do get it, you're new future employer is unlikely to want to wait months.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by EliRivers »

chickenpotpie wrote: post #125

No, no, no, no a billion times no to this absolutely not no The moment you give your resignation, there are good odds your company will say "we accept your resignation effective immediately. Goodbye." Sometimes it's a blanket company policy to do this, sometimes it's because they know you're going to a competitor and they don't want you to start training for your new job, sometimes they were on the fence about you st…

The moment you give your resignation, there are good odds your company will say "we accept your resignation effective immediately. Goodbye."

Genuine question; is this a US thing? I've never, ever seen this or heard of it happening. I don't think I've ever worked at a company that didn't state in the contract the notice period. I have seen companies decide they don't want that person on site anymore when someone quits, but they gave "gardening leave"; the person goes home and is effectively on holiday, paid as usual, for their notice period.

There is a significant chance you will be instantly fired with no income for months.

US "at will" kind of thing? Must be.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by asciimov »

Real Career advice: Do NOT give any indication of leaving to anyone until all your digital stuff is backed up offsite and you know where all your physical things are located.

Maybe like the writer, you work for some unicorn with nice and generally well meaning people. They might let you do this. It's more than likely however that your two week notice will be immediate termination.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by 999900000999 »

Sounds very navie.

Many companies walk you out the door the moment you give notice. If anything you should give at MOST 2 weeks notice.

Nothing bad happens if you only give 1 week, or even if you just walk out.

Remember, they reserve the right to terminate you without cause at any time.

Re: Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit

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Post by Pet_Ant »

masfuerte wrote: post #128
indymike wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But now when I "give notice" and they don't even let me try to work the next 2 weeks, I'm grateful. Life hack: Put your resignation in writing with a date in the future. In many states, if the employer attempts to move the termination date (without compensation), they will award wages until your resignation date... I've used this twice, and in both cases, I was sent home, but HR told the manager that any severance…

Dumb question: why would you get severance if you resigned?

Because of resigned effective of a future date. Any termination of employment before then is either a with-cause firing or a layoff where severance is required.

Seems like an interesting idea. Give as much notice as possible and then see if they bench you until then.

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