Should People still give two weeks notice or take time off between jobs?

[Anonymous]

The job market is very volatile with job offer letters being pulled last minute and company doing lay-offs.

If you voluntarily quit your job any time period between jobs it leaves you very exposed. Particularly if on a work VISA or if a single income household where you are bread winner and everyone is on your companies medical plan.

If you get caught after you resign having offer letter pulled before start date not eligible for unemployment and immediately no paycheck or medical.

So should people still do the notice? I mean the social norms of an offer letter being a contract is broken. It is merely a promise of a job that can be pulled anytime.

[Anonymous]

Different fields, different problems. This is not an issue in my field, and I am a huge proponent of taking time off between jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different fields, different problems. This is not an issue in my field, and I am a huge proponent of taking time off between jobs.

Will be an issue. My company no layoffs but we just closed all reqs for new hires unless critical. So people in interview pipeline got shut down. We could have easily pulled offer letters too but we did not.

Between jobs is very risky. Break your leg, get cancer, who knows no short or long term disability. I recall my friend asked me to go skiing on the Saturday between jobs and said no. What happens if injured?

I got laid off twice in life and trust me severance, unemployment going in subsidized cobra only way survived to next job without a huge financial impact. I also have 200k in un-vested RSUs I lose day I quit. So if new company pulls offer I am out 200k on top of no job.

[Anonymous]

I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

I work 100 percent from home. Once people resign they basically on last two weeks hand off work and attend a few meetings and take the two personal days if still have them.

I plan on resigning my first day at new job. Will give 2 weeks notice old job but offer to leave sooner.

I can’t rush being unemployed. Plus will stretch out my paychecks from prior job.

[Anonymous]

Gosh, I’m taking two months off. I’m three weeks into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

I work 100 percent from home. Once people resign they basically on last two weeks hand off work and attend a few meetings and take the two personal days if still have them.

I plan on resigning my first day at new job. Will give 2 weeks notice old job but offer to leave sooner.

I can’t rush being unemployed. Plus will stretch out my paychecks from prior job.

Wait, you plan to spend the first 2 weeks at your new job still working at your old job? That's pretty unethical.

I've had employees who work from home try to work 2 jobs at the same time, and it ALWAYS backfires and they're terminated quickly. Don't do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

I work 100 percent from home. Once people resign they basically on last two weeks hand off work and attend a few meetings and take the two personal days if still have them.

I plan on resigning my first day at new job. Will give 2 weeks notice old job but offer to leave sooner.

I can’t rush being unemployed. Plus will stretch out my paychecks from prior job.

I'm also doing this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

I work 100 percent from home. Once people resign they basically on last two weeks hand off work and attend a few meetings and take the two personal days if still have them.

I plan on resigning my first day at new job. Will give 2 weeks notice old job but offer to leave sooner.

I can’t rush being unemployed. Plus will stretch out my paychecks from prior job.

Wait, you plan to spend the first 2 weeks at your new job still working at your old job? That's pretty unethical.

I've had employees who work from home try to work 2 jobs at the same time, and it ALWAYS backfires and they're terminated quickly. Don't do it.

How do you terminate someone who already resigned? Why would you bother?

[Anonymous]

^^^ Right. That's just dumb. Who cares at this point? As long as the work is getting done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

I work 100 percent from home. Once people resign they basically on last two weeks hand off work and attend a few meetings and take the two personal days if still have them.

I plan on resigning my first day at new job. Will give 2 weeks notice old job but offer to leave sooner.

I can’t rush being unemployed. Plus will stretch out my paychecks from prior job.

Wait, you plan to spend the first 2 weeks at your new job still working at your old job? That's pretty unethical.

I've had employees who work from home try to work 2 jobs at the same time, and it ALWAYS backfires and they're terminated quickly. Don't do it.

How do you terminate someone who already resigned? Why would you bother?

New job will terminate you. My company absolutely would.

[Anonymous]

I was pretty desperate for a few weeks off between jobs. I'm a fed though and HR said my offer would be rescinded if I did so. It would mess up benefits, time in service, on and on (we use DH's insurance). Also, when I was a broke GS7 with 5 weeks of annual leave, I really wanted to quit my current job, take the annual leave payout and then start my new job. That was also a big no.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

I work 100 percent from home. Once people resign they basically on last two weeks hand off work and attend a few meetings and take the two personal days if still have them.

I plan on resigning my first day at new job. Will give 2 weeks notice old job but offer to leave sooner.

I can’t rush being unemployed. Plus will stretch out my paychecks from prior job.

Wait, you plan to spend the first 2 weeks at your new job still working at your old job? That's pretty unethical.

I've had employees who work from home try to work 2 jobs at the same time, and it ALWAYS backfires and they're terminated quickly. Don't do it.

How do you terminate someone who already resigned? Why would you bother?

New job will terminate you. My company absolutely would.

My current job I am absolutely allowed to work another job. We are an international company and no one tracks my time or daily work. I have strict quarterly deadlines on work to be performed. I dont have to be on line at any set times other than 2-3 times a week for meetings. If I am leaving my quarterly deadlines are meaningless.

Now my new job I heard is 2-3 days a week in office. On-boarding is remote. I also can have a second job. But new job being in an office full time not practical to work a second job nor would I want to. But for two weeks. Literally I would need to work 30-60 minutes a day on old job I would just attend the few mandatory meetings and hand off some stuff and hand in laptop.

I swear if I was shady I hire someone to do old job and hand them my laptop. I could make that last years if I had too.

We had people who just started new job and ran through vacation at my current job then called in sick or took unpaid FLMA till we off-boarded. Did not even bother to resign. Now that is shady. People have figured out just stop showing up. We are cracking down on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was pretty desperate for a few weeks off between jobs. I'm a fed though and HR said my offer would be rescinded if I did so. It would mess up benefits, time in service, on and on (we use DH's insurance). Also, when I was a broke GS7 with 5 weeks of annual leave, I really wanted to quit my current job, take the annual leave payout and then start my new job. That was also a big no.

Isn't the way to do this to push your new fed start date back later (eg, one more pay period), then take leave at your current/old job? Then there would be no break in service.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am struggling with this OP. On the job market now and expecting to make a move soon. Previously i’ve been a big proponent of taking an extra week between jobs, but the recent news coverage of offers being yanked has me worried.

I work 100 percent from home. Once people resign they basically on last two weeks hand off work and attend a few meetings and take the two personal days if still have them.

I plan on resigning my first day at new job. Will give 2 weeks notice old job but offer to leave sooner.

I can’t rush being unemployed. Plus will stretch out my paychecks from prior job.

Wait, you plan to spend the first 2 weeks at your new job still working at your old job? That's pretty unethical.

I've had employees who work from home try to work 2 jobs at the same time, and it ALWAYS backfires and they're terminated quickly. Don't do it.

How do you terminate someone who already resigned? Why would you bother?

New job will terminate you. My company absolutely would.

My current job I am absolutely allowed to work another job. We are an international company and no one tracks my time or daily work. I have strict quarterly deadlines on work to be performed. I dont have to be on line at any set times other than 2-3 times a week for meetings. If I am leaving my quarterly deadlines are meaningless.

Now my new job I heard is 2-3 days a week in office. On-boarding is remote. I also can have a second job. But new job being in an office full time not practical to work a second job nor would I want to. But for two weeks. Literally I would need to work 30-60 minutes a day on old job I would just attend the few mandatory meetings and hand off some stuff and hand in laptop.

I swear if I was shady I hire someone to do old job and hand them my laptop. I could make that last years if I had too.

We had people who just started new job and ran through vacation at my current job then called in sick or took unpaid FLMA till we off-boarded. Did not even bother to resign. Now that is shady. People have figured out just stop showing up. We are cracking down on that.

You may be allowed to work 2 jobs, but not if that second job impacts your first one. I work at place with VERY flexible hours, but still, we know you are not at your best if you're working 80 hours every week (40 for us). In the few times that we've uncovered this situation, there's been no discussions on whether it's allowed or whether it's working. Just automatic termination.