# Quitting, do I have to tell my employer where my new job is? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-do-i-have-to-tell-my-employer-where-my-new-job-is/346518 "2006-02-28T21:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-do-i-have-to-tell-my-employer-where-my-new-job-is/346518/21 "2006-03-04T14:45:19Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Depending how far up the food chain the boss was, s/he may have signed an exit agreement preventing the former and soon-to-be new boss from recruiting from his/her old firm. There are ways around it, but one wouldn’t want to advertise one is following the old boss. Another reason is that companies don’t have a lot of qualms about calling the ex-employee up at her new job and asking her to help troubleshoot problems as if she were still working for them. This happened to a friend of mine. She was a great programmer and an all-around good person, but her supervisor and team members treated her terribly. She finally found another job and gave her two-weeks notice so that she could train them how to operate the system. The super and team members, not being the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree, _continued_ the ill treatment for exactly three hours after she made the announcement, and she walked off the job at 1:00 that afternoon. Oops. A few weeks later, she called me at work and invites me to lunch to shoot the breeze. I told her _I_ was thinking of moving on, and she volunteered to act as a reference. She gave me her work number and email address, but not before stressing that I was _not_ to give this information to _anyone_ and she did mean _anyone!!_ (This is how she said it, and she wasn’t kidding.) She did everything short of making me pinky-swear. I didn’t say anything at the time, but I thought she was being a bit paranoid. A half hour after I get back to work, her former super finds me. Somehow he found out that we had lunch, and he wanted to know how she was doing, and is her family OK, and is she happy, oh, and by the way, did she happen to mention where she was working now? :rolleyes: I guess she knew these guys better than I did. So yeah, that’s another reason. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-do-i-have-to-tell-my-employer-where-my-new-job-is/346518/22 "2006-03-04T15:08:06Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > I have always told my Employees where I was going. This was with the expectation that they could call me occasionally for the next few months when they where desperate. That’s handy. It’s always good to know where one’s boss is, especially if they disappear for several months. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quitting-do-i-have-to-tell-my-employer-where-my-new-job-is/346518.md?page=1)