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Tomorrow is my last day with my current employer.

I say this definitively even though I just got off the phone with someone at said company asking me to stay another week.

Although I won’t know if I am starting my new job until this weekend, it is a risk I am willing to take to not miss a week of the new project. I have my reasons and I’ve convinced myself they are correct.

I only gave a little over one week notice to my employer, who told my current client the next day. That gives everyone involved one week. I don’t even really care about the fact that Monday was a holiday, because I have already completed my assigned tasks for this week, so I am not leaving them incomplete work, at least in one area.

I’m a consultant, so when I signed on the dotted line, I knew that my “at will” contract stated I could be fired at any time. Conversely, I could quit without any notice.

When my soon to be former coworker called me and said that, “in her world” people don’t leave without two weeks notice and then tries to guilt trip me into staying an extra week, should I feel bad and say ok?

They could have let me go the same day I told them I was quitting. Then I would have been left without a job until my new one started.

With all of the consulting-type “at will” contracts, do people actually give two weeks notice anymore (non-executives)? I realize it is common courtesy to give your employers ample time to transition, but in this day and age with cell phones, e-mail, IM, and such, is a former employee really that far away?

I doubt people want to burn bridges in a professional environment.

I’ve probably said too much already, but please let me know if you think I am in the wrong in the comments….