Retail worker gives 2 week's notice, boss chews them out for not giving advance notice of the notice: 'Essentially she wanted a 1 month notice'

The whole point of a two-week notice is that you give your employer… two weeks' notice. In most places, you can leave a job whenever you want to. You don't have to give notice unless you have a contract that says so. Nobody can force you to go to work, and you can just stop showing up. But it's generally accepted that if you want to keep in good graces with your employer, so you can use them as a reference in the future… You should give two weeks' notice. It's enough time for them to ease you out of your role and begin the search for a new employee. To ask for anything more would be defeating the purpose of a two-week notice. 

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  • An angry customer complains to a barista in a coffee shop
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  • Gave my two week's notice. Manager is upset that I didn't give "advanced notice" of my two week's notice.

    (USA) I work in retail under toxic management. I got the job two years ago. I hated the job on the first day but figured I'd hold out for at least 5 years because the job market is so tough. I couldn't take it anymore so I gave my two week's notice on Thursday (I do have another job lined up). I live in an at-will state but still gave two week's as a courtesy.
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  • My direct manager, who is pretty much the reason why I'm quitting, got upset that it's "too much of a sudden notice" and that I should have given more "advanced notice" before giving my two week's. She's demanding that my two week's should be the advanced notice so I should stay another two weeks for the actual notice. It was very confusing what she was trying to say but essentially she wanted a 1 month notice (I think).
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  • I told her that it's not a sudden notice since I'm giving two week's and being two week's is the advanced notice. She then tried to guilt trip me by saying that now I will further burden my coworkers because we are chronically short-staffed. She asked who will be doing the night shift (since I was the only one who did most of the night shifts). She asked whether I won't feel bad for making my coworkers lose their job if the
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  • store ends up closing due to lack of staff to cover the necessary shifts. I told her that should be her job as the manager to figure out staffing issues. That she should be din glad that at least I'm giving her two weeks.
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  • Commenters gave their sympathies and advice.

    LowEndLem I once gave a job 6 weeks notice because I was moving and they needed to replace me because it was already half a skeleton crew. Come the final day, I ask for my check and they go "we never got around to hiring anyone. Can you stay until we do and then train them?" I was moving far away the next morning. I didn't stay.
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  • ReaverRogue I can leave right now, if you prefer. Or you can cut that sh out. What's it going to be?
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  • hawkman1000 "If I'm so hard to replace, why didn't you pay me better?"
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  • SWC8181 D in, I'm sorry. I guess I meant to say my last day is today. My bad.
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  • Swimming_Frame... Femmmmmmm The way they tricked us into thinking notice is mandatory at all. Good luck comrade I hope the new job s ks less
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  • javel1 Oh yes totally your fault no one is trained in nights/s. I hope you know this isn't a place to get references from so just do the bare minimum.
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  • A retail worker in a white t shirt stands in front of a store at a mall
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  • If your job is so understaffed that losing one employee would break the business, then there are bigger issues at play. It's not the employee's fault; it's management's. Either they don't have enough budget to hire the proper number of employees to keep their business afloat, they are creating a hostile workplace that causes a lot of turnover in personnel, or they are mismanaging the schedule. In any of these situations, it's not on the employee's shoulders to fix that. There is a larger structural problem at play, and everyone should address how that might be affecting the work and the product. 

    The employee in this story learned the hard way that giving it your all is sometimes still not enough. They had given years of loyal service to a company and still were treated unfairly when push came to shove. Their manager showed them their true colors when things got stressful, and they finally got up the gumption to find a new job. The employee thought they were doing all the right things, making sure that they were giving proper notice, but that still wasn't satisfactory to this hard-to-please manager. Then they pulled out a guilt tactic that should go in the hall of fame of manipulation. Read on for all the details of the story and see what you think about it.

  • autumneliteRS None of those problems are your fault and most of them sound like the Managers. If the store is chronically short staffed, that is a problem far beyond a non- manager employee to deal with and points to big issues. If they relied on you to cover the majority of the
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  • night shifts, again that is on them. They would have had to find a solution if you were sick and you are geniously giving them two weeks to find options. If the entire shop shuts down because you leave then they have been vastly underpaying you for what you do.
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  • j StayOffTheCounter | gave a two weeks notice that was accepted, supervisor was being a real about a little thing that happened during shift. Kept giving me sh even after we cleaned up and clocked out, and while having our shifties (post work beverages) so I looked him in the eye and
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  • told him I was rescinding my notice and quitting immediately. Suddenly facing a 90 barrel canning run with only two guys the next day he got real apologetic. It was too little, too late, told the other guy it had been a pleasure, told supervisor he needed to work on being a better human being and walked away.
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  • Zipferlake That's just hilarious. Unless you have a specific clause in your contract, you need not even give 1 day of notice in an at-will state. Night shifters are, of course, very valuable for the management, however, nearly underpaid everywhere - thus hard to be replaced.
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  • neckbeard She also wants an extra 2 weeks to be able to further ab e you. F that sh . Store manager Stacey is p ed off that she's losing that power over you.
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  • As others have said, the 2 weeks notice can become a 2 minute notice if she keeps it up. Make sure if she keeps pestering you that you tell her you've reconsidered the 2 weeks notice and just grab your sh and walk out the door.
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  • Staffing levels are a management responsibility so that's on her and the fact that one person leaving a minimum wage retail job can shut the entire store for good sounds like bad management.
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  • XKBlack Nah, f em. If they won't accept the 2 weeks, I'd be a and say I'll stay for a month, then after the 2 weeks just never show up again. can they do??? They have no idea where you're going w
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  • urbanviking318 From another corner of the service industry (restaurants) to yours: You don't owe them a d In thing. Even the idea of two weeks' notice is a courtesy. I gave one job a month's notice because they were accommodating to my family needs; I ghosted another
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  • one and let them figure out how to cover a "close, double, double with brunch, open" schedule because they changed my schedule to that after I gave them the heads-up. Companies don't make it. obvious upfront (in most cases; tech startups are a notable exception) how they intend to exploit you. But
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  • just like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot, they dial up the heat a little bit at a time. Shifts for most workers were understood as eight hours for decades. Now it's the "8 to 5" instead of the "9 to 5." Meal breaks? Going extinct. Wages stagnate while companies cram more work - more profitability for
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  • themselves - into the same shift and expect you to break your body to get it done. They want you too tired to stand up for yourself, which is how we got to where we are, one notch at a time.
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  • DW171 This person will never give you a good reference, so why bother with 2 weeks? Take a little time off between jobs, even if it's just to sit in the park with a book.
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  • czerwonalalka Just recently gave 2 weeks notice at my current job and was told the expectation was a FOUR week notice or I risk being ineligible for rehire in the future. If they fired me, do you think for a SECOND they'd give me FOUR WEEKS to find another job??? HA! F no.
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  • Flibiddy-Floo "Wahh wahh, I have to actually sit down and read the schedule and correlate that with people's availability because you're not here to make it easy for me to just auto-populate the schedule before publishing it! Waaaahh I don't wanna actually do work!" Is what she said.
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  • grptrt Appropriate responses include phrases such as the following: . WOW ⚫ interesting . . ok . I see
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