Can I just leave my job without 2 weeks notice to go into trucking?

Boy is that true!

You may just find that Swift job to pay less, have less respect, less free time, and much less satisfying then the pizza job. At least your belly is full at Pizza Hut.

Some employer's have you sign a contract that requires x-weeks notice before leaving, some burry the contract in the job application themselves, some just give a verbal notice when hired, yet others consider it a unwritten courtesy.

If you are really pissed I can understand just walking out. Some if not most employers will just release you after stating you are going to leave. No telling without asking. Either way I would get a letter of recommendation now! If asked, I would hold on for two weeks. The last two weeks are going to be easy. How hard are they going to push you when you already have one foot out the door! They fire you, then they may have to pay unemployment. Don't worry eat pizza and leave on a full stomach; Swift will starve you out.

If you committed murder on your way to the Swift terminal, chances are if Swift was going to hire you, they still will. They can get you on that team truck with a new victim, err trainer, and complete their recruitment quota.

However, the job after Swift might be interested how you did a other jobs. Give them the letter of recommendation from Pizza Hut, because you will not get one from Swift. If you got no accidents, no tickets, no service failures, 100% on-time customer service, kissed your DM's arse, and licked Jerry's boots everyday you will get no letter of recommendation from Swift! That is how Swift is.

 

Just quit. Under Federal labor laws, no employer can give out more information other than start date and leave date. Not even the reasons for you departure.

I say just up and quit. I highly do not believe that pizza hut has anything to do with the system that truck companies have called DAC, which in of itself, is laughable.

Hit the road jack, don't look back mack, take a last stand Lee and set yourself freeeeeee

 

OP , you would be well placed to follow the advice given in the quoted list above. Doing what's right is never wrong. Good Luck !

 

Talk to that 4chan guy, OP. Can solve your neckbeard trap issues.
> be me
>friends killed
>playing halo
>pizza hut 8hour
>become trucker
>get laid
>hookers
>still cant triforce
>reject redditor
>join TTr

 

bluejet, when I got my class A, I was working at Sbarro in the mall. I put in my two weeks and they let me go after a week and a half. My references there have proven to be my best (I love working in a pizza shop, if I could make a living wage doing that I would) So my advice would be to try and leave on good terms

 

I would just talk to my boss. Tell him you want to go drive truck and that you are quitting. I highly doubt he will want you to work 2 weeks unless you're store is particularly understaffed and he probably doesn't care if you give him a formal resignation letter. When I quit my first job in a grocery store I just told my manager "Hey I'm quitting. I'll work two weeks for you if you want."

 

You sure about that?

http://employment-law.freeadvice.com/employment-law/hiring/employer_references.htm

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-rights-book/chapter9-6.html

 

Most

states are a at will employment state and neither party has to give two weeks.

 

Dear God, do some research before going with Swift.

 

I thought for sure there were Federal Labor laws to protect the worker, this is what I must have really read atone time, and have been told by many others..

http://employment-law.freeadvice.com/employment-law/hiring/employer_references.htm


and from one of your links, here is pretty much all a former employer can say about me

Rhode Island

R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-6.4-1(c)

Information that may be disclosed:

• job performance

Now, my question(s) would be, that if I was still a resident of my state, but got a job out of state, will I still be protected by my states laws?

Again,. most if not all employers are "at will", meaning they can fire, lay off anyone at any time. This also means in such instances, an employee can seek employment anyplace, and leave at any time, no strings attached.

Which is why I never worried about just up and quitting a job.

I have had jobs that were in CT, and MA, never worried about quitting with out notice.

I think that what can be a bottom line regarding things said to a new employer about a potential employee, is that to avoid lawsuits, just give out basic information, and if the person is re-hirable or not.

The op works at what can be considered a minimum wage job, and some states now pay well above that $8 per hour he gets, making him even lower than a minimum wage earner. Is anyone going to seriously worry about quitting such a low end paying job?

I know I never will or would. Someone said to do the right thing and give notice, as he may never know when he might need that store manager to give him a reference. I have very rarely ever seen in a fast food or other low end food business for any manager to stay till retirement. Meaning the help in a reference he may have gotten from the manager will not be there, as that manager would have moved on.