quiting and 2 week notice

I never worried about giving a notice! If they were going to fire you or lay you off they wouldn't give you a notice. I have had exit interviews where I was asked why I didn't give a notice and told them what I just said above and everytime the interviewer said that they couldn't argue with that.

 

I have always and I mean always gave a room week notice at all my trucking jobs. I never wanted anything to bite me in the ### down the road when that great gig showed up or burn bridges if I needed to go back. I've even had old bosses call me up saying "hey, I got a request for employment just letting you know that I put in good words."

 

It's Prime. That's as good of a reason as any!

 

This is a tough mean world we live it. I would say it is more important to take care of yourself than do the right thing in 2 weeks notice. Protect yourself always. Once you give 2 weeks notice boom you're at their mercy, exposed with limited 'outs'.

Much like Wall Street mega traders, you have to hedge your bets. So you get routed home, leave the clean truck at the terminal and take orientation at your new company on hometime. if anything goes wrong, say the new company lets you go, you still have your old job.

This is what I did. I own my own truck though. I was leased to carrier A, applied to carrier B and attended carrier B orientation while still leased to carrier A. Post dated my contract for the following Monday coming out of orientation Thursday. Ran another load for carrier A and went home for the weekend. Come Monday I was in carrier B's yard and let carrier A know to terminate my contract.

 

If you are going to a better opportunity, then you should give a notice. The structure of the company would dictate the amount of notice that is appropriate.

If you are firing a bad company you owe them no more notice than they would give you if they fired you.


Just a side note, at my last job the employee handbook specifically noted that a two week notice was expected when leaving the company. When I was laid off as the guy with the last seniority (no screw ups on my part) I was given zero notice. Got called into the office and handed my last check. They told me they wanted me back when business picked up, they didn't want me to get a new job, but no notice was given that I should tighten my belt.

A couple employees back, I had to fire a bad employee. They knew it was coming but the new owners were still refused to learn my job. So when I left i spent the next two weeks coming in for an hour or two before going to my new job to help ease their transition and train them. At the end they somehow didn't have the money to pay me for my last paycheck. Lesson learned, right?

 

Looking for a job while working looks better on you. Looking for a job while you frig gets empty is risky.

 

In 2003 I left a quality first class company in central Wisconsin who has red trucks, after giving my 2 week notice. FM asked me which terminal I wanted to take the truck to and when. We parted on great terms, with an offer to return. Received all of my final pay. However it wasn't Prime....

 

Yeah depends on company.
Even some that you think are good are not, everything changes when you quit


Previous company I gave them a one week notice, I already had home time set.
I got home ok.
But they basically refused to route me back to yard to return the truck.

 

well I am going to do a I am done with therapy you stole stuff out of my truck no weeks notice.

 

you fried no notice...when the company (F) you over no notice