Antiwork

My personal opinion is that, no job is ever going to give you a 2 week notice if they fire you. Their more likely to fire you after a shift too. To make sure they get the most labor and work out of you before they cut you off. Why should we be expected to give them notice we’re quitting so that they can find someone to replace us, when they can turn around a fire us out of nowhere with no warning or notice given to us to start looking for other employment. But I’m curious to see what a group of people anti work think about putting in a 2 week notice to jobs.

So a friend is an experienced “old” manager in a small to medium company, 50-100 employees, in Europe.They don’t make a lot of money, times are tough. The culture is apparently pretty good, but the business owners, who are a family and certainly not “hard” capitalists, are a bit traditional and only reluctantly embrace flexible working – they are concerned about the business have to lay people off because times are tough. They openly require most staff in the office 3-4 days a week, working standard 9-5 hours. They pay well over the average wage for the area, at all levels, but more recently are finding a some younger staff are being very relaxed over their hours, coming in late or leaving early. When they raise it with them (having checked for caring responsibilities etc.) they keep saying they need more flex. The bosses, reluctantly, think my friend should fire…