Why do shitty part time jobs have a mandatory notice period? (they do in my country the UK). It’s pretty stupid because most people will happily just walk out of their job, is it just there to discourage you from quitting? or to get as much work out of you as possible? my last part time job had FOUR WEEKS notice period, and people were actually honouring it. the company was astonished when I said ‘you’re getting a week that’s it’ – and they fired me about three days after i quit. I just wanna know which company exec sat down and said ‘let’s pay them £8 an hour and make them wait four weeks to leave’.