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[quote=Anonymous]2 weeks (plus maybe a few days if I've been treated particularly well) is the maximum I'm willing to give. 2 weeks is just enough time to hand off my projects, tie up loose ends, and process out.  It takes months at my agency to hire people, and that's if they actually find someone both qualified and willing to sign on. So its not like if I gave them more notice it would really make a difference. They'd still be very short staffed. 
When you give more than 2 weeks, it just gives them time to retaliate, try to sabotage, and just generally mess with you--something that is always a possibility, even in an environment that you had previously found to be positive and supportive.   People will resent the fact that you have the ambition, moxy, or just flat out ability, to move on in your career. People will resent it because they might be jealous that you've done it and they haven't or can't. They might resent having to pick up your workload. Many managers will resent having to get off their azz and either help pickup your workload or deal with the fallout of losing a person.

I've had one manager (who was abusive and incompetent) who would be extremely angry when people would give only 2 weeks notice. She was too stupid to realize that people were giving two weeks notice because they knew she would make their life miserable if they gave more.

The more notice you give, the more power you give them. Ask yourself if you really trust your managers enough to do that.

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