RE: resignation notice?

From:"Morken, Tim"

Most companies have some kind of personnel policy on that. To me 2 weeks sounds fine, but the policy may say something else. Some one said that 4 weeks was the right time so they could fine someone else. I really doubt, in todays workplace, that they would even get an announcement out within 4 weeks, so that is a non-consideration.
 
My personal policy is to give anywhere from 2- 6 months notice that I will be looking around for another job. But I tend to be intimately involved with the operation of the lab and it usually takes at least 2 months to even get someone else in the lab oriented to what they have to take over from me. That is just a courtesy to the lab. If I was a bench tech with no investment in lab operations I wouldn't worry about it.
 
Oh well, it's done now, but I would take his claim of unprofessionalism with a grain of salt - He's just bummed that he has to look for someone else. It probably wouldn't matter if it was 2 months, he'd still be mad.
 
Tim Morken
Atlanta.
-----Original Message-----
From: CrochiereSteve@aol.com [mailto:CrochiereSteve@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:12 AM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: resignation notice?

Here's a non-histo question. I recently gave my employer a 3 week notice that I have accepted a better job offer in a hospital. He then pitched a fit and called me unprofessional for giving such a short notice. I've only worked at this research lab for 3 years and have 2 wks vacation. I assumed that the norm was to give notice equivalent to ones vacation time. Does this seem "unprofessional" to anyone besides my employer?

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