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Old 07-22-2005, 01:30 PM
ADPiAkron ADPiAkron is offline
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That is an excellent letter, Honey!!!

I also agree on not giving more than a month since you are dealing with a jerk!!

I know my co-worker let us know way early when he was leaving-- but he had to because we all knew he got into graduate school in another state!! Same with the co-worker before him- he got into Law School-- so we knew months in advance. But the guy who left before the Law School guy got another job and gave two weeks!!! (I work as a youth employment counselor and for some odd reason the other employment counselor position is like a revolving door!! I have been here for three years and the longest anyone else was here was 18 months!! haha)

I would say your case is similar to my two co-workers who moved away-- but since this guy sounds like a jerk-- I would not give him more than a months notice!!! The only reason I agree with a month and not 2 weeks is because then you can leave on good terms by helping find and train a replacement-- and you need more than 2 weeks to do that!! Good Luck!!


ETA: I found this on a legal website-- so I am guessing this mean you can give a bad job reference-- but he could not lie or bring up anything about you if not directly asked--

My former employer is sabotaging my job efforts by giving negative job references to prospective employers. Can I sue for libel?

Generally, statements made by a former employer to inquiries from a prospective employer can be made without fear of being sued later. However, protection will be lost if there are any ancillary suggestions, inferences, innuendoes, etc. that lead a prospective employer to attach a different meaning to what is said or to believe something misleading or untruthful about the employee. The difficulty is proving that the statements were inaccurate and wrong.

Last edited by ADPiAkron; 07-22-2005 at 01:36 PM.
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