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This is exactly why you shouldn’t care about giving a two week notice. Two way street. They can send you packing with zero notice. Companies may be people in the US but they don’t have feelings.
Yes this. Been working in Europe for the past year n half, still don’t understand how advertising is not unionized!!
In America? Isn’t it just the federal law?
You can’t negotiate out of an at-will contract (these are becoming the norm but right now it’s state by state) but what you can do is try to negotiate severance terms for your first year as part of your overall negotiation.
It’s state driven. I tried to get a clause in my contract at my last company. Best I could negotiate was they would have to provide me with two weeks notice… (in other words extend the departure date by two weeks vs getting walked out on the day of lay offs).
With my current contract, they specified a lengthy notice period that I’d have to give. So I asked them to add in the same notice period if they planned to let me go.
I think "At Will" protects the employee too. I think it's kind of important that we have the ability to leave if we're not happy with an employment opportunity
Agree. Employees CAN leave but it looks bad or you burn bridges. There isn’t the same consequences for the employer.
It’s a scam, no matter how we slice it. And we should really start standing up against it—especially as independent contractors. Every other contract between two entities has stipulations, upfront payments, and working dates. Why is it any different for “independent” contractors?
Reminder: These companies would be nothing without their work force, both the W2s and 1099s—and we need to find the courage to position ourselves to create rules that work better for employees, versus the employers.
This just a strategy a company uses to protect themselves and keep employees scared. Plus, I don’t know of any company who has removed this clause if it already has it