The Reasoning Behind The "Two Week Notice"
In the UK we have anywhere between one week and three months for a notice period. It's becoming more common to have to give the employer three months notice and them to give you one months notice.
I've never actually understood the two weeks thing in the US, it seems that someone can just up and leave whenever they like and potentially leave a company in a bad place and likewise the company can just get rid of people whenever they like.
In the UK we seem to have slightly better employment protection laws.
As ever, this is all personal opinion based on my views of things in the UK.
PLEASE READ: This is not about me. I am not thinking of quitting my job. This topic is merely for an open forum discussion.Though there is no legal reason for giving your employer a two week notice and it is mostly done out of courtesy, can you think of any other reasons why you should give a two week notice if you plan on leaving your current position? Now, I agree that if you are planning to leave your current position and there has always been a pleasant rapport between you, management and your co-workers, by all means give two weeks at least, but there are exceptions to the rule. Look at it in another perspective; your company wouldn't give you a two week notice if they were firing you, would they?Here are some actual situations that have happened to people I know and the reason why they won't ever give a two week notice again. I...
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* Create a paragraph style with text color magenta, for the first paragraph in the cell; call it magenta. Set Next style to cyan.
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* In the paragraph styles panel, Right-Click the magenta style name.
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* Select the second cell.
* Apply the cell style magentaCell. Both paragraphs are tagged with the magenta paragraph style.
* Select the cell and in the Paragraph Styles panel, Right-Click the paragraph style magenta, and select Apply "magenta," then Next Style. Like the two paragraphs selected in the cell that has no cell style applied, the first paragraph remains magenta, and the second paragraph changes to cyan.
* Copy two paragraphs tagged with noStyle and paste to all the cells in the table.
* Select the whole table.
* Apply the magenta paragraph style to all cells.
* * In the paragraph styles panel, Right-Click the magenta style name.
* In the context menu that appears, click Apply "magenta" then Next Style. The first paragraph remains magenta, and the second paragraph changes to cyan. All the cells have the first paragraph tagged magenta and the second tagged cyan.
* Undo these last steps until all cells have reverted to containing two noStyle paragraphs.
* Select the whole table and apply the magenta cell style.
* In the paragraph styles panel, Right-Click the magenta style name.
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[EDIT] Yes, I'd like to see your tutorial. Click on my name in the sidebar to send a private message, if you don't have my email address already. Thanks for the offer.[/EDIT]
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