2 weeks notice

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Originally Posted by Rexmons

You say giving two weeks is a matter of courtesy, I'm saying why can't they extend the same courtesy to you when they let you go. If you walk out on them they might be hurting, but when they tell you Friday, you're officially unemployed come Monday, I don't think they care if you've got kids to feed or bills to pay or how bad you'll be hurting. Letting someone go like that is like the movie "The Time Machine" where people just get randomly taken and everyone sits still and hopes they won't be next. It's a shitty thing to do to people.

In almost all cases of downsizing, the whole company knows it's going to happen at least a few weeks in advance, they just don't know who. And most places also give severance packages of some sort, like aimeecc said. In Texas it's the law, actually, if you're laying off a large enough number of people.