Hi guys,

I'm set on moving back to Europe after over 6 months in Canada as a PR - many reasons, but let's say I'm glad I came and I'll be glad to be back to the old continent and enjoy the things I missed.

I am going to resign my position at my job tomorrow, and I'd like to know something. I'm paid every two weeks, but on my first contract (never signed a 2nd one ah ah HR is a joke) there was zero mention of notice period, etc...

Does that mean I can simply walk into my manager's office tomorrow morning and tell her "OK, that was great, but I'm leaving" and go? Or do I need to give them 2 weeks?

Any idea?

The decent thing to do is to give them two weeks. In practice you can walk out at any time with no notice and there is not much they can do. Especially if you are leaving the country.

However, don't expect much of a reference.

2 weeks would be the decent thing to do.

Dont forget any holiday pay you are owed

Legally (in Ontario) they would be legally required to give you a weeks notice for every partial year served (up to 8), I dont think that works both ways.

If you don't need the reference, you could have lots of fun trying to just get fired in 2 weeks!

As someone who was recently in your position, I gave 2 weeks notice. It is the polite, professional thing to do, and it is no time at all really.

What he said.

They might pay you up and let you go anyway.

(ahem, I is a 'she')

Eeeeeek

Sorry

What she said!

Or in the words of Michael Scott "That's what she said!"

Give them 2 weeks notice and then they will probably to the usual Canadain thing of escorting you from the building Iknow of 8 cases where this has happened, the last I one had just served his 15th year with the company

As long as they pay you who cares. My last UK employer did that when I handed in my notice. never mind that I had been working for months waiting for my work permit... I felt very sorry for the guy who had to pick up the threads of what I had been working on with no help from me.

I had never heard of this practice until I came here, find it pretty shocking to tell the truth.

No worries!

I thought it stupid at the time. Granted, I was joining what might have been seen as the competition, but if I was going to steal anything or sabotage anything I had already had two or three months to do so already, so all it really did was make life miserable for the poor guy who had to figure out what I had been working on at the time.

Oh well, a couple of extra weeks off for me...

Mmm yes interestingly I thought this may happen to me, but it didn't. They were sad to see me go, and handled it all very well, and made my last 2 weeks there v pleasant. To be honest you are not leaving to go to another company you are leaving to return home, there is not much they can say to that.