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Turning in my two weeks
I interviewed again with a company and was told I would have an offer no later than Monday, which means I need to plan on turning in my two weeks. I don't know what the offer is yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll accept.
My question is what should I give my current employer? I work for a small company and my position requires me to cover a lot of tasks. This also means, that no one else at the company can really take it over. I know, not my problem, business is business. However, this company has been somewhat good to me and the employees there have become sort of a family. With that said, I don't want to leave them hanging. I am giving them the standard two weeks, but I recently started a new website build for them. I am not actually building the site for them, but I am working directly with the developer from an outside company. The goal is that the site would have been launched by early May. I really would like to finish this out for them, since that was my goal from the day I hired in. I would really only need to dedicate a few hours a week to provide content and input for the design with the developer. I could easily do this after work/on the week, plus it will only be for a month or so.
I don't want to burn a bridge, but I also don't want to let them get free work out of me. How do I approach them with this? I really want to do this for them. How much would you charge for this?
P.S.
We had an employee quit last fall, and he was sort of a prick about it. He left a lot of unfinished projects (pretty sure on purpose) and when I asked him about it, he wanted to charge hourly for a very simple job. I don't want to be that guy.
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Re: Turning in my two weeks
My new job asked me how much time I had to give my current employer. I told them at least two weeks. He told me that if they fired me for giving notice that they'd take me early.
I also think that they would have been willing to work with me if I wanted to give them more time to finish projects, etc.
It's worth bringing up, they might work with you.
General "leave giving" advice: the norm is two weeks. Unless there is nothing for you to do (doesn't seem like the case) or you don't care about burning bridges (while you might not care in the moment, but it could bite you in the butt) always give two weeks.
Before worrying too much, I'd outline your plan of conversation with your manager. So you want to finish this site launch. Awesome. Say that. "I've really enjoyed my time here, I'm ready to move on to new adventures and I've accepted a position with a new organization. My last day here with be X. I really want to ensure that the site launch that I'm working on continues moving forward as planned and I'm willing to dedicate X number of hours each week to seeing it through completion." See how they react.
Also be ready with the amount of money you want to be paid for your work. As a contractor, you are in a position to ask for more $$ than you currently make per hour, but that could leave a sour taste in your employers mouth. See: burning bridges line in the first paragraph
. Good luck!
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