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I ended up giving more than two weeks notice for my last job. I got the offer in mid-December to start in mid-January. If I waited to give two weeks, it would have been December 28th, when EVERY manager/supervisor in the whole department were scheduled to be off for the holidays. As a courtesy, I was going to give notice just before they all took off for the holidays. I wasn't sure if I should do it the last day before they left or a day earlier so they had time to file paperwork or whatever.
I was called into a conference room the day after I got the offer and told they were going to have me take over an audit from one of the other auditors and they would need me to travel to Massachusetts on Jan. 14th- the week I was actually starting my new job- and should make my travel arrangements ASAP. I went home that night and wrote the official letter. I outlined which tasks I would finish during my last month on the job.
A lot of the time, they don't have auditors work through their notice period. I spent a tense afternoon while they discussed whether security had to walk me out that day or not. I was particularly concerned because usually it happened when people gave two weeks notice and they received pay for that two weeks. But I had given a month and was worried they would only pay me for two weeks. I was pretty worried about getting screwed out of two weeks pay because I was being considerate.
It all worked out though. They decided I could be trusted and had no desire to burn bridges and they let me work through my notice period.
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