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If the employee handbook states you can't have a second job or you have to tell the employer about a second job, they can fire you on the spot for not divulging that info. And you won't get u/e for it. (I know someone who tried it, got caught, fired from both places, no u/e from either. A lesson learned the very hard way.)
What, that she was working f/t for both companies who were competitors and was supposed to be doing 9-5 type hours for both? I don't think it's at all ridiculous that they fired her!
When we left Seattle for Hawaii I gave a very generous 30 day notice. My boss didn't speak one single word to me after that...nothin'.
Wow, that's absurd. The last two jobs that I left I gave a three and four week notice respectively, and my bosses made sure to meet with me several times to make sure they knew everything they needed to know about what projects I was leaving behind, etc. Both also called me a few times to ask questions, and one even had me freelance for them for a month until they were able to bring the new hire fully up to speed.
mchelle, I read your first post only (didn't feel like scrolling), so forgive me if this has been answered:
Why did you tell the manager in the first place? Will the hours on your second job conflict with the first? If not, there was hardly any reason to tell.
My supervisor felt the same way. My last week at the job was spent mostly talking to my coworkers about the new job, the company, the career advancement, and the pay lol. We all had something in common and everyone talked about jumping ship as soon as the next opportunity comes.
I know my departure triggered a mass exodus of employees leaving that company. I was the third guy to leave that month. My coworkers were interviewing that time as well. You can't settle with a job you hate!
Hmmm, don't know that I'd discuss my future job while on my current job. No, I woudn't do it, no matter how much I hated it. For one, it's no one's business. Also, it seems like bragging. Third, it's a way to burn bridges. You may need that "hated" job for a reference.
It's always best to leave professionally and as pleasantly as possible.
I was going to college locally (community college) in the mornings and then I worked a job 40 hours but I could make my own hours - I had worked at this place since my junior year in high school and I just had to finish XXX work. It usually worked out to 40 hours.
Each semester, I would go over my hours with them when picking my schedule and I was conscious of their needs, however, this one term I really needed to make money (helping parents also) and I took only 2 classes. I also was offered a job at night at a new firm so I took it.
Unfortunately, I told them. The hours never conflicted and no one would have known. The owners acted really weird to me during this time and I'm actually sorry I ever mentioned it.
The next semester, I took my regular amount of classes and just continued on and I left the 2nd job on good terms. It was over the holiday period and I knew it was temporary.
Eventually, when I owned my own firm, my employees always felt free to come to me. Many of them had to take jobs (2nd) from time to time and I always accomodated them.
Today, people are more open about money but years and years ago, I most likely never told my bosses (husband and wife team) that I had to help my parents. (My parents would have been mortified at the time).
Am I missing something here? Although the OP talks about a "second job", it seems that she's not taking on a second job but leaving one for another. She says, "Shifts at the hotel are 3pm-11pm and the credit union is from 1pm-6pm, so I had to tell them why my availability was going to be changing." Maybe one had to read some other threads to understand the situation but these hours don't mesh at all on the face of it.
Whether she's quitting one job for another or somehow combining the two jobs, giving essentially no notice is, in my opinion, untenable. When you work part-time, shifts are allotted according to availability of personnel and not giving notice throws a real spanner in the works where scheduling is concerned. If someone did that to me, I'd fill the spot as quickly as possible and give the employee who'd sprung that on me the boot at the first chance - and immediately if I could fill the gap even temporarily.
If I'm somehow misreading then hopefully someone will correct me.
I think she was expecting the original employer to accommodate her new availability without question and continue to give her shifts, even though the availability was greatly reduced.
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so anyway...
This is so many years ago but....
