Quitting, do I have to tell my employer where my new job is?

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.

That’s handy. It’s always good to know where one’s boss is, especially if they disappear for several months. :wink: