‘Pack up today’: Manager refuses to accept employee's 2 weeks' notice, ends their employment on the spot instead, leaving the employee baffled

"We don't want your notice, it'll be better if you leave now."

For some reason, most employees are expected to give their employers a grace period when they continue to come to work even after they quit their job. We call it 'notice'. Employees start between two weeks and a month in a workplace they have already decided to leave, just to give the workplace a chance to figure out what they are going to do without them.

But if an employee gets fired? Do they get a grace period so they can figure out what they are going to do with their life without a job? Not a chance. An employee can get fired on one random Wednesday morning, and find themself packing up their belongings and back at home with nothing to do by lunch.

Still, not many people question this system, and employees continue to hand in their resignation letters weeks in advance, even though they know that their employer would not have done the same if the tables were turned.

The same can be said about the employee in the story below. They were only working at their job for 13 weeks when they decided the job was not for them. Soon after, they found a new workplace, and like most employees out there, informed their employer along with a two-week notice. The surprising part of the story followed just after informing the boss they were leaving.

The boss was not interested in the notice period whatsoever. He told the employee that he would rather they pack up and leave work the same day, and not continue to work for another two weeks. He didn't need time to figure out what to do without the employee, and preferred to work with fewer workers than to have someone stay there after they had already decided to leave. The employee was quite surprised by the boss's decision, but respected his wish and left that same day.

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Secured new employment, gave notice. Their reaction was unusual.

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