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2 Weeks Notice Checklist
- vivegi 4y ago(In jurisdictions where permitted; If you signed a non-compete upon joining or anytime during service) Keep a copy of your Non-compete agreement (and be aware of any restrictions around companies, clients, industries that are barred and the duration for which they are barred)
- kube-system 4y agoTrue, but you should have probably sorted out you plan with your non-compete even before you lined up your next job.
- varispeed 4y agoAre non-competes even enforceable? In my country, these have no legal bearing, but companies still put them in employment contracts, probably just to scare workers not versed in employment law.
- cafard 4y agoIn the US, it varies by state. They are not enforceable in California, apparently they are in Texas.
- cratermoon 4y agoThis is strictly about things a person needs to do for their own financial and employment future after leaving. There's nothing here about handing off the job responsibilities and knowledge to colleagues, for example.
- _l0wh 4y agoInteresting! Handing off job responsibilities is definitely an important aspect, especially for more tenured employees.
- datalopers 4y agoUnless there’s additional pay for doing so, quite literally not my problem. A good manager from day one of a new hire should be ensuring a smooth hand-off is already prepared in the event of separation for any reason.
- NeoTar 4y agoArguably, during your last two weeks that is your job - the entirety of your job. So not additional pay, but your final pay check is for doing just that.
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- kube-system 4y agoThe entire point of giving two weeks notice is a courtesy to your employer to facilitate a smooth transition period. If you DGAF about that, you might as well give no notice.
- datalopers 4y agoEmployers rarely give notice when terminating an employee.
- kube-system 4y agoOf course not. Voluntary notice periods never have been made out of fairness, it is and always was about self-interest. Employees give two weeks to be nice and not burn bridges with people on their team. Employees who are angry at their employers may often give no notice at all. Employers don’t give notice in layoffs because disgruntled employees are not productive and are a liability. Employers don’t give notice in terminations because they don’t want them working for two more weeks.
- marcinzm 4y agoEvery tech company I know of gives plenty of notice. If it's performance issues then you've got months of notice via a PIP. If it's a layoff then you get severance which is effectively notice.
- sys_64738 4y agoIt's called a transition plan and your manager should work that out with you during your notice period. Who will pick up your responsibilities? Accept no new work. Don't attend regular meetings. Don't do overtime. Disengage from instant message such as Teams or Slack. Do everything via email CC'ing your manager. Start to work from home during your notice period. Your single focus is hand off and get out ASAP.
- dtx1 4y agoFeels like 90% of this is only necessary if you live in a country with horrible insurance practices. If you life in a civilized country with sane health insurance coverage you wouldn't need to worry about almost any of this.
- martin_a 4y agoYes, totally. I was expecting to find a solid list about "hand over accounts" or "change mail address" but it was all about being able to see a dentist if necessary.
- drstewart 4y agoCan you go line by line for these and show how "sane health insurance coverage" obviates them? Or if you don't want to do that, just do it for these random selections: >When is my next bonus paid out? >Can I keep a copy of my performance reviews? >What is current official title and level? >When is my next equity vest? Thanks!
- smcleod 4y agoI'm assuming this is focused on the USA specifically? In Australia and New Zealand most engineering jobs are 4 weeks notice if you've worked there at least a year or two. I've heard that non-compete clauses don't really hold up here either (not that I've even seen one either). Not sure what an "ESSP" is?
- kube-system 4y agoYes, it’s US centric, but the US does not require two weeks notice. It is a voluntary courtesy. Some people give more or less depending on the circumstances. Employment in the US is largely at-will, and can be terminated by either party at any time.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoHow did we end up with a two weeks honor system that is only expected from one side?
- kube-system 4y agoBecause voluntarily departures are generally cordial. There is effectively no overlap between severely disgruntled employees and those who give their employer a courteous heads up about their departure. Whereas involuntary termination is never a happy circumstance.
- sundaeofshock 4y agoSimple power dynamics. The employee has a lot more to loose than the employer a when a person’s employment ends.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoYes when you’re one person individually up against a highly organized institution - easy to see why employers prefer the organizing to be one sided
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- social_quotient 4y agoI’d love to see a checklist but the other side of the table. When a developer is going to leave and you have two weeks. What’s the checklist for handoff on a granular prioritized level. Do you start from front end and work backwards or from db model and go forward? The use case is I run an agency and we tend to get hired when an internal resource is leaving and we need to take over a big fat codebase we have never seen. The guy running is is leaving in 2 weeks. Where do we start… a checklist like this could be awesome
- plorkyeran 4y agoI know you can't do much about it from the side coming in to replace someone, but waiting until someone is on the way out is fundamentally a flawed way to do it. As an employer you need to be focused on seamless onboarding _before_ the people who know how to do things have decided to leave. "Knowledge transfer" is just new-hire onboarding done by someone who no longer has a stake in seeing it succeed.
- _l0wh 4y agoI'm not sure how the agency is structured - but what I can vouch for (and seen work) is continuous communication amongst coworkers in the form of tech talks and documentation. That way, knowledge is distributed within the team and a situation like this is avoided upfront. I'm reminded of the Bus Factor concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
- ukoki 4y agoMost companies I've worked in had an onboarding checklist or guide for new devs. You should also have an offboarding checklist. Whenever you add something the onboarding checklist, add it to the offboarding checklist as well ("grant Jira access to project X" => "revoke Jira access to project X" etc)
- konschubert 4y agoLosing your health care if you quit a job is pretty dystopian. There are lots of things wrong with Europe, but this isn't one of them .
- cammikebrown 4y agoThat’s IF your job gave you healthcare, and if it was any good, and you have to pay anyway a lot of the time. (And most jobs don’t pay for dental or healthcare)
- hollywood_court 4y agoYep. It’s a big “if.” I took my first full time job at age 16 and I’ll be 41 in December. During that time I’ve had over a dozen employers and only one offered health insurance. And it was so expensive that almost no one, myself included, signed up for it. The only reason my wife works is because of the healthcare and benefits given to her by being a state employee. The money she earns is fairly insignificant relative to our other income, but the benefits make it worth it.
- kube-system 4y agoPrivate health insurance employer benefit plans exist in Europe.
- chrismeller 4y ago
- Someone1234 4y agoWhich is often supplemental insurance (akin to Medicare Advantage in the US). If you lose that your cancer or fertility treatment doesn't suddenly stop, or you won't go bankrupt due to an unexpected medical problem. People, even in the US, often forget that the US has European style healthcare coverage it is just restricted to those above the age of 65. People over the age of 65 also make up the largest voting block, and politicians in the US often hurt younger demographics to benefit the retirees as a direct result.
- bot41 4y ago2 weeks? I have to give 3 months notice to my job
- cpsns 4y agoTwo weeks is typical for most jobs in North America.
- modeless 4y agoAnd it's not required, it's a courtesy. In most cases you can quit on the spot if you really feel like it.
- delgaudm 4y agoHow much notice do they have to give you when they're letting you go?
- AlbertCory 4y agoI said "two weeks" on Quora, and some Europeans (Dutch, I think) corrected me and said that 3 months was standard there.
- kurupt213 4y agoThe Dutch don’t have to worry about being fired on a whim
- joeframbach 4y agoCan you replace the check marks with empty boxes so I can, you know, check the list?
- _l0wh 4y agoI updated the site with checkboxes. Check it out :)
- joeframbach 4y agoI like that it persists the state when I refresh the page. Thanks!
- _l0wh 4y agoThat's a good idea. Thanks for the feedback!
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- AlbertCory 4y agoIn Ken Burns' "history of country music" series, there's a part when Roger Miller (King of the Road, Dang Me, etc.) is working as a clerk in a hotel. Someone offers him a job going on the road as one of the musical acts in a show, and he says, "Hang on, I've got to go and give my two minutes' notice."
- robocat 4y agoThe only item for equity is “When is my next equity vest?”, but there are a lot more issues to worry about, which are highly dependent on your circumstances and the specifics for the type of equity. For example, for the typical 3 month limit on exercising options after quitting there can be heinous issues associated with decisions on converting the options to shares (cash payment, taxation, valuation, finding purchaser, illiquidity).
- mister_tee 4y agoMay be worth being aware of this sort of thing in advance, specifically in case a speedy exit happens, triggered by either party, when you don't have spare time to learn what COBRA is. example: "Can I cash in my unused vacation days?" If you're in a minority of states like California or Colorado, the answer is "yes, by law." For many other states it may depend on your employer. Knowing you lose all accrued vacation on exit with no compensation is nice to know months in advance. There's also more considerations, for example, medical FSA plans.
- antifa 4y agoAre "awesome checklists" a thing the same way "awesome lists" are a thing on github? If not, it should be.