I Quit!!

Giving two weeks notice is the standard practice when resigning from a job, but I've always wondered why is it that if I want to leave a job, I have to notify my boss two weeks in advance, but I won't get the same courtesy if he/she finds it necessary to let me go . Let's explore this thought for a moment:

If I want to leave my job, I have to tell my employer two weeks before I decide to leave that I won't be coming back. Why? So he/she can find someone to fill my position, so production/productivity doesn't slow down, causing the company to lose money. But, if we flip the script and my boss wants to fire me, I don't even get a two-minute notice. Which slows down my own personal productivity causing me to lose money.

Where did this topic come from...It started with a conversation I had today with a friend I will call CoolChick. She had recently quit a job and was wondering if it was possible for her to return (in another department, of course). However, she was informed by one of the "higher-ups" that since she didn't give proper notice, better known as two-weeks notice, that the chances of her return were highly unlikely.

The conversation went as follows:

CoolChick: I wanna come back and work with the camp, you know with the kids.
HigherUp: You quit didn't you?
CoolChick: Yea, but I won't be in that department though.
HigherUp: Did you give two weeks notice?
CoolChick: Yea, I told them two weeks before I quit that I was sick of working there.

CoolChick always makes me laugh!!

I wonder: would you really continue working on a job if you knew that in two weeks you would be fired?