Re: Is it fair for an employer to expect 2 weeks notice of an employee?

I'm fairly young, but I dropped out of college after my freshman year to
join the dotCom revolution so I have been in the job market for 7 years.
I've noticed that corporations no longer trust, value, or respect the
majority of their employees.  They expect loyalty, but offer none in
exchange.  My wife's grandfather lost his pension when a company he
worked for figured out a loop hole to severe all obligation, pay out the
current CxO's, and then reform the company without any of the ties with
its former self.  They gave those same CxO's signing bonuses and raises
once they returned.  Most of the workers returned, only all the years of
service were erased. Yay.

When my parent's were growing up, they longed to nail that one life long
job.  The idea of changing jobs every few years was devestating.  I
think the change in the environment has trickled into the housing market
where you see people more willing to take Adjustable Rate Mortgages
because 5 years at a particular job is considered a long time.

I'm lucky to have found an employer who trusts, values, and respects
it's employees.  I'm not getting paid what I could if I went back to
corporate america, but the money isn't worth it.  As a result I'm loyal
to them, and they're loyal to me.  There's also a problem with the CxO's
in company's being disproportionately reimbursed.

It's difficult for employees to stay happy and loyal when they see the
CxO's getting 150,000k Christmas Bonuses while the rest of the workers
receive a toaster that makes Egg Muffins.  There has to be reform in the
upper levels of management at most companies.

Most of the time, severing 1 CxO would save an entire department
financially.  Hell, even adusting his salary and bonuses to _sane_
levels might save 10-50 jobs at the company.  There's a problem there,
and I'm glad I'm not a part of it.

There have been a few times I've ditched a job without a full two weeks
notice.  I realize that I "burned bridges", however the people I left at
those companies that would harbor ill will, are not people I'd _EVER_
work with again.  As a matter of fact, it provides mea safety net.  If
they're in a position to influence my bein hired, then I don't want to
work there.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:38:09AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote:
>    I am watching people get cut without notice right at Christmas time and
>    can only imagine the devestation this is causing them, emotionally and
>    financially. Not to mention occupationally.
> 
>    Why is it fair for an employer to expect 2 weeks notice from an employee
>    as well as expect a smooth transfer of knowledge, when all they do is
>    throw people out the door with no warning?
> 
>    It seems the best course of action for employees is to protest this
>    inequity by leaving without notice and no knowledge transfer until
>    employers get the point that they have no right wrecking people's lives
>    without notice. In fact, one would think that the fair employment
>    commission of some state would have some laws in place about the violent
>    and abrupt termination of employees in good standing.

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Brad Lhotsky