# Job Offer.  Giving Notice.  Protocol?  Etiquette? Help!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-offer-giving-notice-protocol-etiquette-help/273775>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 9, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-offer-giving-notice-protocol-etiquette-help/273775 "2004-11-09T03:20:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-offer-giving-notice-protocol-etiquette-help/273775/21 "2004-11-10T22:33:24Z")

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Rick is correct. It is extremly unprofessional for a company to expect you to quit an employer without any notice.

Another thing, if a company extends your start date, start looking for a new job (but don’t quit). When I graduated B-school, the company I was going to start with pushed my date back 4 months. I still ended up working there for about 18 months, but I asked for them to give me my signing bonus immediately, under the petense that I already quit my job and was not prepared to be out of work that long. That way, if the offer evaporated (which happened with some similar companies) I still had money in my pocket for doing nothing.

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