Quoting Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Oops.. forgot my footnote earlier..
The key word possibly being "were"... we now have a lot of laws on the books that set limits to what an employer can do (and very few on what an employee can do[0]). These laws would all have to be repealed.
[0]I've always thought it was a little unfair that a company has all kinds of laws restricting why they can fire people. It might seem like it's simple, but talk to HR people sometime about all the hurdles they have to go through, and then there's always the threat of a lawsuit. But the employees can just up and quit when they want, with no reprecussions (save a bad recommendation). Back when I worked at HSN/Mistix.. there was a couple that worked there. After about a month, they just walked up together one night to the supervisor, handed over their badges, and quit. While such an action usually isn't going to hurt a larger company much, someone doing that in a small business (depending on what they do, skill level required, etc) could threaten to bankrupt the business. When I worked for a silkscreen/embroidery place before here, owned by friends of the family, they had 2 positions where the person walking like that could've seriously hurt them, and possibly caused them to go under. I can understand if the person in question is being abused or something.. but in most cases, there should be some kind of requirement for giving some minimal notice. There could be guidelines for what quality as extenuating circumstances that would negate the need for notice. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.miguelito.org Marge: "Homer, sitting that close to the TV can't be good for you." Homer: "Talking while the TV's on can't be good for you!" ==> Simpsons -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
