Okay, I'm all against torture or interrogation or whatever it's called this week, but I have to point out that maybe the suspect responded well to this kind of an act of kindness because the norm is to get locked up, beaten and waterboarded. When, for a change, you are offered cookies, the gesture carries more weight because it's a contrasting act of benevolence after numerous acts of brutality.
IANAL, but there's typically something in the standard employment contract that requires two weeks notice from the employee and vice versa. So you give two weeks notice and the employer has two choices - pay you for two weeks to slack at work or boot you and mail a check.
(This happened to me once long ago. I worked at a company with a high turnover that had experienced some sabotage from exiting programmers). I told a colleague who was a technical writer about my treatment and she wanted to earn her two weeks vacation also, but, to her dismay, she got the formula wrong. See, you can't just quit. You have to give formal two weeks notice. Very important. She just announced she was walking that day and they let her. Now in this case, she broke her part of the deal so the company didn't have to pay. I wonder where she is now...
Actually, getting escorted out the door gets you two weeks of paid slacking at home! I would consider it an insult if I weren't important enough to be shown the door in a paranoid fury.
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Okay, I'm all against torture or interrogation or whatever it's called this week, but I have to point out that maybe the suspect responded well to this kind of an act of kindness because the norm is to get locked up, beaten and waterboarded. When, for a change, you are offered cookies, the gesture carries more weight because it's a contrasting act of benevolence after numerous acts of brutality.
My thoughts exactly. Aka "good cop - bad cop"
IANAL, but there's typically something in the standard employment contract that requires two weeks notice from the employee and vice versa. So you give two weeks notice and the employer has two choices - pay you for two weeks to slack at work or boot you and mail a check. (This happened to me once long ago. I worked at a company with a high turnover that had experienced some sabotage from exiting programmers). I told a colleague who was a technical writer about my treatment and she wanted to earn her two weeks vacation also, but, to her dismay, she got the formula wrong. See, you can't just quit. You have to give formal two weeks notice. Very important. She just announced she was walking that day and they let her. Now in this case, she broke her part of the deal so the company didn't have to pay. I wonder where she is now...
Actually, getting escorted out the door gets you two weeks of paid slacking at home! I would consider it an insult if I weren't important enough to be shown the door in a paranoid fury.