I recently accepted a new position with a 238% raise to do work I'm much more interested in than my current job. Now that the ink is dry, I called my boss on 6/7 and gave my notice. This is a new boss, my old boss changed positions in the organization. So she and I don't have much of a real connection. I haven't been on my current team very long, but I've been with the company for six years.
My new company originally wanted me to start 6/23, so I gave my notice for 6/20, a Monday (my days off are Tue & Wed). My new company comes back and says they want me to start 6/20. I return to my current boss and say I want to make my last day 6/17, next Friday. She says “We need two weeks' notice, the new shifts start 6/12.” I mean, yeah, they do, but, how does that affect me? “We won't have coverage for 6/19.” You're going to have to find someone for the next Sunday anyway, just get them up and running now. “We need you to work that weekend, end of story.”
And I was going to do it. She even messaged me later, “I just sent an email to confirm that your last shift will end at 7 am on Monday, please respond.” I did. I would literally go right from that job to the new job to work a 16-hour day. (It's all remote.)
But you know what? This company has underpaid me for six years. I needed the job and had nowhere else to go, mostly because of depression, and trauma and I was in survival mode. But in the last two years, I've busted my ass, gotten promoted, gotten certifications, and made myself more valuable. Every time I did so, I asked for a raise and got nothing. Now I'm finally getting a new job and a huge raise, and I want a full weekend before it.
In addition, I have worked just about every holiday (I didn't care, I wanted the money and the easy shifts. I needed a new car so I took the triple OT.) During the pandemic when my old job was overwhelmed I was doing 80-hour weeks to keep my help desk afloat when our volume quadrupled. I've given these fuckers so much of myself for no reward. I've taken extra shifts in my current job so other people could have vacations (I mean okay, it was during dead hours and I was still saving for the car).
And now this company can't give me two days of wiggle room on my two weeks notice?
No! Fuck that!
I've already got my plan. I've removed myself from the team directory. When I get off Friday morning, I am going to block all of my bosses' numbers, go drop my equipment off at the office, and go out of town. I'm taking this weekend, going to visit some old friends, might even get laid. This is my receipt for all the years of low pay, overtime, worked holidays and covered shifts. It's a right-to-work state, they could fire me right now for no reason and I'd have no recourse. Time for that to go both ways.