job interview today!

[trans_am17]

I currently work at k-mart where I pretty much hate it there but today at 2pm I have an interview at Sheetz. The starting pay is $8.25 and hour, a dollar more than I make now.

 

[oakraiderz2]

Cool beans

 

[trans_am17]

I'd like to put my 2 weeks notice in so if they ask when I can start do I just say in 2 weeks? Will that hurt my chances since its not right away?

 

[diablo]

It's K-Mart... a 2-weeks notice is generally reserved for jobs that actually require skilled labor, and where they can't readily replace you. The 2 weeks allows them enough time to find someone else to fill in for you... in your case, just let your K-Mart manager know that you're quitting and put on your application that you can start this coming week. Unless you plan on making a career out of 'value centers' this isn't going to exactly affect you in any way, even if your manager at K-Mart does get upset that you left...

 

[Deep Dish]

diablo:
It's K-Mart... a 2-weeks notice is generally reserved for jobs that actually require skilled labor, and where they can't readily replace you. The 2 weeks allows them enough time to find someone else to fill in for you... in your case, just let your K-Mart manager know that you're quitting and put on your application that you can start this coming week. Unless you plan on making a career out of 'value centers' this isn't going to exactly affect you in any way, even if your manager at K-Mart does get upset that you left...

I respectfully disagree. It never benefits someone to burn bridges and even for labor jobs references can be important. There is not one single benefit of walking off a job or otherwise terminating employment on short notice, whereas there are negative ramifications. It’s worse to have a bad reference than no reference and it can come back to bite you even if five years later. For instance, anyone who applies to a government agency will, more often than not, be required to list every job they have ever held. Furthermore, more pertinent to the present, unemployment is always an uncertainty factor. No one ever knows when is the next time they will be unemployed; a new position may very well not be a suitable match. How many have we all experienced watching someone leave a job swearing they would never work there again, only to come crawling back two months later? I would say that the only time a two weeks notice is not required is when someone is under the initial probationary period, thus a temporary employee, and thus it’s understood either party can terminate the arrangement and no hard feelings.