almostgold said:
tahrey said:
almostgold said:
Who 'quits' without putting in a two week? Thats kinda standard procedure....
Really, how the hell did you expect that to happen?
Jeez man, read the rest of the thread. It's not always SOP, and particularly if it's a temp job in a crappy store, it's not without precedent. It's good manners, yes, but if they're treating you like crap as well and you can more or less walk into a better job, why give them the misplaced courtesy of another fortnight of your life?
Right, just because someone is a dick to you you should go and abandon all common courtesy. That can only be good for the world. I just think its respectful to turn in a two-week for one and more trouble than its worth to purposefully NOT do it just because you are don't like your job/ boss. Just buck up and go the extra 14 days.
... Noooooo it seems you're still not reading and still not getting it. Apply some humanity to the situation. A cruddy cashier job does not really obligate you to be a simpering butler. At least, not to anyone except the friendliest (or most attractive) customers.
If the job wasn't your thing or you had a dispute with one of the other workers, or even a minor disagreement with the boss' policies (or whatever) that meant you felt it was time to seek employment elsewhere, but you could tolerate working there until you found that other job, then fine. Find it, give the notice, then peel out. (My mother is in fact in this situation now, she pretty much hates her job after changing site but can stand going in a couple months longer til retirement)
If it's slightly worse, and you can't wait til finding something else and will gladly suffer a period of unemployment and jobseeking rather than carry on, but no-one's actually being an enormous dick to you, give sufficient notice then bail. I had to do this a couple jobs ago where the workload was just insane, and I felt crap about leaving my colleagues with EVEN MORE to do, but I knew I'd implode if I added another month on top of the five i'd already done.
However if it's a poisonous environment, the boss/co-workers are giving you no respect and certainly aren't earning yours (this isn't feudal Mercia, or Japan; if you want respect you need to act worthy of it, and I think if you've pushed your employee to this kind of point then you've burned up all the Common Courtesy they'd be reasonably obliged to grant you), don't be a doormat, don't be a slave, skip out.
(rounding out the trifecta of real life examples, this is me, leaving the convenience store lackey post as previously noted; the boss didn't just not earn my respect, didn't just burn up my stocks of courtesy and deference, but went straight out the other side. Particularly when she got pissy that I dared book a vacation, and then actually tried to go on it. Camel's back broken, I only turned up for the first shift after said vacation to see if things may have improved - but walked out, dead on time to the minute I was scheduled to finish (not 5, 10, 15+ minutes late as normal) leaving my apron, namebadge and letter on the counter, as it had not. ((Or ... I don't know ... memory's hazy ... did I actually give my notice just before going on vacation, so I wouldn't have to go back in? It's been many years... I can't actually tell this story with 100% accuracy any more. But I definitely didn't give them two weeks in which to make my life EXTRA-hellish because they knew I was leaving, and leaving because I thought they were all bastards)))
Heck ... there are some places where if you actually DO give notice, they'll tell you to pack up your stuff, because you are as of a few seconds ago on 2 weeks unpaid leave. They don't want the kind of chaos that a disgruntled employee can cause, or set up to occur for following weeks, in that period. If it's a desk job, don't bother logging out, one of the techs has already shut the PC off remotely so you can't do anything nasty with the system...
