Why is everyone giving a two weeks' notice?
Ain't I a free man and can leave any time?
I want to maximize the time between jobs. I can't postpone the starting day at my next company forever. So, the day I sign the contract, I would like to quit ... and not 14 days later.
As a contractor at Cisco, if you get a regular full time offer from another company, is it typical to give a 2-weeks notice that you are leaving the contract work? Just curious how this works as a contractor in Cisco RTP.
I'm not sure what Cisco RTP has to do with your question. As w/ any job, it depends on the terms of your employment offer. I worked at a company as a vendor where the client had promised during the interview to hire me after 6 mo. 2 mo into the role, the client announced a 16K employee layoff and suddenly I wasn't being hired. My vendor's terms required that I give 4 weeks notice or I would be paid minimum wage for the last 4 weeks and the wages garnished from my last paycheck.
Luckily my manager was nice enough to tell me that when I found a position, all I had to do was tell him when I wanted my last day and he'd tell my vendor that he was terminating my contract. I was gone a week later at my request.
You know how I got the next position so quickly? By always leaving a company on good terms and always giving sufficient notice to finish up all my tasks/projects. A previous manager had an opening he was trying to fill and was willing to re-hire me w/out the interview process.
I could care less about Cisco as a company and caring for it's best interests, but not screwing over your manager or team leaves the door open other opportunities with them. Who knows, they may have quit and taken new jobs at a company you're trying to get into at some point in the future.
Try reading your contract perhaps...?!
As a contractor at Cisco, if you get a regular full time offer from another company, is it typical to give a 2-weeks notice that you are leaving the contract work? Just curious how this works as a contractor in Cisco RTP.
He started screaming and threatening me
How can a manager threaten you on your last day (or last 14 days). What does a manager has in his hands?
When I gave two weeks notice, my manager offered me several incentives to stay. I politely declined. He started screaming and threatening me then walked me out. Two days later, HR called and asked me to come in and speak with them. I explained that I considered my employment finished when my manager walked me out and that I would not return. Cisco still paid me for my two weeks notice.
Several others on my team later resigned under similar circumstances leading to the involuntary termination of my manager.
... I want to maximize the time between jobs. I can't postpone the starting day at my next company forever. So, the day I sign the contract, I would like to quit ... and not 14 days later.
Who says you have to postpone your starting day at the next company forever? In my 15+ years of contracting, I've never run across a company that isn't willing to wait 2 weeks for you to start. Most are not capable of starting you the day after you sign your contract. Hell, I've had places that gave me a start date 2-3 weeks out (their chosen date) and then contacted me to say they had a delay getting paperwork/authorization/approvals signed or couldn't get a PC/laptop ordered in time, etc. and wanted me to delay my start date.
When quitting a job, it's usually not difficult to arrange your end date and start date to be on consecutive business days. And, depending on the company and your role, many will pay you for the 2 weeks notice you give and escort you out the same day just because you are now considered a "risk". You just gave up either a 2 week paid vacation or 2 weeks of double pay.
Generally in life you don't want to burn bridges. You may never want to work for Cisco again, but you may come across your manager or a work colleague in a future position, who may think poorly of you.
Everyone leaves, and nobody is going to judge you for managing your career. But how you leave does matter.
This is SO true. I've had managers ask me about potential candidates and I've given feedback to them if I've known that person to pull stupid sh– like leaving with no notice or quitting only weeks after accepting a position (or worse, accepting it and then not showing up the first day and quitting instead).
There's a saying: You can do anything you want on your last day of work. Depending on what you do, it may be your last day of work.
I have a retired uncle who used to work in the nuclear field. He couldn't keep his mouth shut and said things he shouldn't have on his last day of work. Sometimes he knew it was his last day and others it became his last day. He's retired because no no one in that industry will hire him because of his reputation.
Cisco is a right to work company and NC is a right to work state. I'm not sure about CA. Depending on how you handle giving your notice, you might get away with making it no notice. But you can definitely handle it incorrectly and no one you've worked with who knows about it will ever want to work with you again.
Call me old, but I've survived the "school of hard knocks".
""It is totally legal to walk away "
It's a sad day in America when this has to be said and it is not common knowledge.
As if quitting a job COULD be illegal. Thank you , American Bar Association."
What is sadder is only being able to read something literally and only take it at face value. What this person is saying is that nothing is keeping the OP from leaving. I think I would give the benefit of the doubt to both involved in that correspondence and assume they both know it is not illegal.
"It is totally legal to walk away "
It's a sad day in America when this has to be said and it is not common knowledge.
As if quitting a job COULD be illegal. Thank you , American Bar Association.
Generally in life you don't want to burn bridges. You may never want to work for Cisco again, but you may come across your manager or a work colleague in a future position, who may think poorly of you.
Everyone leaves, and nobody is going to judge you for managing your career. But how you leave does matter.
2 weeks is merely just a courtesy. And depending on which state you are in (Right To Work) they can fire you because its Tuesday and that's your last day. You can quit whenever you want, you can stop working whenever you want.
The right thing to do is offer two weeks notice. One never knows if you may need to come back some day. Dont burn bridges as they say. Too small a business and too small a world out there. Thats my 2 cents.
u can simply say "I quit", surrender ur badge and laptop or any other company possession. It is totally legal to walk away
I don't see why not as long as you're not going back to Cisco again.