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Most days, my manager would call me around 5:50 a.m. To ask if I could cover for someone who had just called out. It happened so often that I started keeping my phone on silent.
One time, I was still awake at 2:45 a.m., so I called him and asked if the store needed anyone to come in early. He got really angry and said he was going to write me up for such a pointless call.
I pulled up my call history in front of the store manager and showed her how many times he had called me before 6 a.m. The write-up disappeared, and so did the early-morning calls.
Someone on my team told management that he planned to leave at the beginning of March to start a training program. He gave them about two months' notice because he wanted to help them find a replacement and show the new person how things worked.
Management thanked him, then decided they only needed him for two more weeks. Instead of receiving his regular salary until March, he will now go several weeks without pay and may have to rely on unemployment benefits, which pay much less.
If he had waited, he could have kept working and given them the standard two weeks' notice. His try to make the transition easier only gave the company an opportunity to let him go early. Give the amount of notice you're required to give, not the amount that benefits them at your expense.
