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<blockquote data-quote="benny_blanco07" data-source="post: 2540960" data-attributes="member: 867494">My current employer has a history of terminating people without notice, (live in at-will state) including this week&#039;s termination of the CFO and other big shots. I was made an offer today at another software firm with a firm date two weeks out to accomodate my request to give my current 2 week notice.I currently have 2 week&#039;s worth of vacation (PTO) and because of my current company&#039;s way of dealing with terminations I am afraid they may accept my resignation to be effective &#039;immediately&#039; or even worse, terminate me as my job performance is going to be reviewed in the next couple weeks (mere coincidence). A friend of mine advised me to just put a vacation request NOW so that it&#039;s timestamped and approved asap; then report to work at the new company in two weeks while collecting vacation pay. Problem is that my offer letter clearly states I &quot;cannot be subject to another employment agreement at the time I begin work with them&quot;...A coworker of mine suggests just calling in sick and not give them notice. I am thinking that perhaps I should just wait until the background and credit check clears and my health benefit questions get answered and as soon as these two are good to go then just give one week&#039;s notice...My friend doesn&#039;t think that the new company will be able to find out if I double dip. Actually the new company wanted me to start sooner because of their work load and I even offered to start a swing shift and weekends while still working at my current company while fulfilling my 2 week&#039;s notice... My future boss didn&#039;t say anything at the offer during the interview and the HR mgr said that she&#039;ll ask him again and if so modify the offer letter with an earlier date so I don&#039;t know how the HR manager would not see that offer as going against their own offer letter employment clause...Any advice welcome <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="benny_blanco07, post: 2540960, member: 867494"] My current employer has a history of terminating people without notice, (live in at-will state) including this week's termination of the CFO and other big shots. I was made an offer today at another software firm with a firm date two weeks out to accomodate my request to give my current 2 week notice. I currently have 2 week's worth of vacation (PTO) and because of my current company's way of dealing with terminations I am afraid they may accept my resignation to be effective 'immediately' or even worse, terminate me as my job performance is going to be reviewed in the next couple weeks (mere coincidence). A friend of mine advised me to just put a vacation request NOW so that it's timestamped and approved asap; then report to work at the new company in two weeks while collecting vacation pay. Problem is that my offer letter clearly states I "cannot be subject to another employment agreement at the time I begin work with them"... A coworker of mine suggests just calling in sick and not give them notice. I am thinking that perhaps I should just wait until the background and credit check clears and my health benefit questions get answered and as soon as these two are good to go then just give one week's notice... My friend doesn't think that the new company will be able to find out if I double dip. Actually the new company wanted me to start sooner because of their work load and I even offered to start a swing shift and weekends while still working at my current company while fulfilling my 2 week's notice... My future boss didn't say anything at the offer during the interview and the HR mgr said that she'll ask him again and if so modify the offer letter with an earlier date so I don't know how the HR manager would not see that offer as going against their own offer letter employment clause... Any advice welcome :) [/QUOTE]

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