I recently got a new job and I followed standard procedure and gave my current employer two weeks notice before my departure. So next Monday will be my last day and I am in a little slice of hell. I just sit here all day counting down the hours before I can get the hell out. I avoid doing all the shit work I didn’t like about my job in the first place; what are they doing to do fire me? I can’t ask for something fun to do because I am going to be gone in 3 days. Sure I can surf the net, I am practically a goddamn professional at that, but there is only so much you can look at when big brother in the IT department is monitoring traffic.
This brings me back to my point that the whole two weeks notice thing is bullshit. Sure it allows the company time to get a jump on trying to replace me but they are getting 25% productivity out of me max. Is it worth the extra search time when they are paying me the same amount of money to do next to nothing? Plus once they make the announcement to your co-workers that you are leaving it just gets weird. People act differently and everyone has to take a crack at a “short timer” joke. Next time I have to do this I think I will get a week and a half vacation approved and then drop my notice three days before it starts.
