‘Um, no. You decided to be petty, so I’ll be gone in 2 days’: Boss backtracks and begs employee to work through his two weeks’ notice after telling him to leave in 2 days

• I gave proper notice to my job, they decided to be petty and screwed themselves.

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• So I recently left a very toxic job. Usually in my field, it’s customary to give a month’s notice. However, my job had a history of letting people go as soon as they give their resignation. I always found that extremely petty. For this reason, I only gave 2 weeks instead of a month since I could reasonably go without income for 2-4 weeks until I get my first check from my new job.

• 2 weeks was plenty of time for me to finish up the reports for my clients that were coming up and to transition my clients to other providers. But true to their pettiness, my boss essentially said “you can leave in 2 days.”

• "Um, no"

  
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• Okay, fine. I emailed back and said I expected this to happen, but that meant my upcoming reports would not be finished by the time I left. They screwed themselves by not checking if I had reports coming up before telling me to gtfo. They quickly emailed back and said “on second thought, you can stay for the full 2 weeks and get those reports done!”

• Um, no. You already decided to be petty and tell me to be gone in 2 days, so I’ll be gone in 2 days. I emailed them back and informed them that because I expected to be let go early, I made arrangements with my new job to start early and already informed them I would be starting early. So I couldn’t stay the full 2 weeks anymore, since I was originally told 2 days.

• They can lay in the bed they made.

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• What Boss did here is a workplace version of changing the locks in your apartment immediately when a partner says they need time to think and then being upset you need to change the sheets alone that same day. Unrelated, but you see what I’m saying. If you don't, I'm saying Speed wins points for drama. It loses points for logistics.

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• The company could’ve had a clean exit, but that would require checking what’s actually ‘in progress’ before telling someone to pack what they can and bug off. It would require treating a resignation like a business event, not a personal offense. 

  Would require accepting that burning bridges saves time on goodbyes but costs more in mess later on. So basically, requires a boss that doesn’t live by: “May the bridges you light the way” as a motto.

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• An employee who gets told to leave early will adjust. But a company that forces an early departure inherits the mess that comes with it. 

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• Some lessons cost more than others. This one comes with a side of unfinished reports, confused clients, and a reminder that pettiness is expensive.

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