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I need some guidance

BigWrench55

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It would depend upon the circumstances. If the company treated me well and I am leaving for personal reasons then I would give notice. If it's a stressful toxic environment and that's the reason I am quitting, then my notice is given when I am backing my truck to the door to load my tools. Two weeks notice is a bunch of crap. Companies don't give you that when they are going to let you go. So why in the hell do they expect it from you. 70 years ago it was a different environment. Companies treated you well and employees were loyal for it. Now they treat you like an expendable and are offended at your lack of loyalty. Do what you feel is best. There is always work for a diesel mechanic and the next company doesn't care if you gave notice or not.
 

hosspuller

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Some companies don't want the quitting employee around for two weeks after their notice. Various reasons... The usual path is to pay the employee for two weeks and escort them out the door on day of their notice. Think of it as two weeks extra paid time off. :cool:
 

old-iron-habit

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When a employee in the construction company I worked for turned in a two week notice my employers policy was to limit their computer access that day. We had a very open company knowledge policy with employees. Usually they assigned someone with them to gain as much info as they could on the current jobs the leaving employee was running. They did pay them and treated them fair to the end. We had a very small turnover anyway and most were due to a family issue or major move to somewhere else. More than half came back within a year. The grass always looks greener but it does not always taste better. But if you are eating bitter grass it is time to go.
 

partsandservice

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I with the "Today is my last day" notice group. Corperate employers , IMO think any scrub can do your job with a couple weeks of school. I have only quit one job with a 2 week notice and that was because my boss had been good to me and I was relocating. The everybody knows everybody thing works the other way as well. As soon as the word got out I had quit the job offers came rolling in.
 

JD955SC

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I was really more of joking when I said “to-day” notice but I’m also getting the feeling that his employers are such as to try some stuff to screw him over as punishment for daring to leave. I have worked for places I was glad to be able to lateral transfer out of instead of quit as I felt they were the kinds of places to try such games.
 

mitch504

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I once quit a job as a truck mechanic, leaving a truck blocking the scales at the steel mill. I stopped by Carquest on the way home and told the owner I was gonna take 2 weeks off and then look for a job. The phone was ringing when I got home, I started as evening shift shop foreman for a big independent IH shop that evening.
 

funwithfuel

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I ran from cars and trucks to heavy truck trying to avoid computers. Boy did i get a surprise. DDEC I waiting for me the next year. Cat n Cummins hot on their heels. So i got lucky in a way. I learned while diesel EFI was in its infancy.
 

DMiller

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Was involved from mid 70s into mid 90s with most every application out there, gas, diesel, lp, cng, , electronic, old style analog, hard injection and ECM fed injection, got tired of trying to learn new all the time, tired of trying to keep up with tooling.
Can still remember the early days of DDEC and the idiots pushing pins thru wires to bypass the governor or max out horsepower and cooking a briefcase sized ECM, wanted to mash someone's face into the pavement for those stupid guesses.

Worst walkaway I actually had parts in hand for a engine when a foreman told me when I was done I was also released, I dropped the pieces of a scattered 6/110 DD and loaded tools. Had a truck shop owner's child give me a riot act of reasons he would always be right, gave him my notice(one week) and went on vacation, check came by mail for both last two weeks pay and remnant vacation. Was working in both situations the next work week.
 

92U 3406

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Was involved from mid 70s into mid 90s with most every application out there, gas, diesel, lp, cng, , electronic, old style analog, hard injection and ECM fed injection, got tired of trying to learn new all the time, tired of trying to keep up with tooling.
Can still remember the early days of DDEC and the idiots pushing pins thru wires to bypass the governor or max out horsepower and cooking a briefcase sized ECM, wanted to mash someone's face into the pavement for those stupid guesses.

Worst walkaway I actually had parts in hand for a engine when a foreman told me when I was done I was also released, I dropped the pieces of a scattered 6/110 DD and loaded tools. Had a truck shop owner's child give me a riot act of reasons he would always be right, gave him my notice(one week) and went on vacation, check came by mail for both last two weeks pay and remnant vacation. Was working in both situations the next work week.

Funny you mention guys cooking the ECMs. I took some CAT training not too long ago. I remember the instructor saying a lot of perfectly ok ECMs were sent in for warranty in the early days of electronics. The techs back then I guess just replaced ECMs because they didn't understand how they worked. I didn't get involved in the business until early 2009 so I missed the days of early electronics.
 

John C.

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The techs back then were told to check the ECM by replacing it with a known working ECM. The problem was ECMs back then carried no core value and once you broke the seal on the package you couldn't return it. Put that together with lousy training and manuals translated from another language and you get a lot of good ECMs changed for nothing. The manufacturers didn't care, they just sold another ECM.
 

Blue924.9

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Put in my notice right away in the morning yesterday and they at least let me finish lunch before we signed papers. My new job graciously let me unload my boxes in the back parts room which avoided another series of loading and unloading and has gone above and beyond to help get the process moving for a start date. Drug and physical tests today hope to start next week. I have 1 year of experience on john deere equipment and I worked Friday noon to midnight and saturday 8 to noon at a truck shop in college. I am getting paid 4 dollars an hour more than I was at the deere dealership
 

Blue924.9

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And they already brought up the john deere sticker on my toolbox lol. Unfortunately it's an adhesive type sticker that will take some paint with it lol. That sticker is the reason I got the then 2 year old master series box for 2000 dollars but now I feel foolish lol
 

Welder Dave

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I gave proper notice at one place and was told to leave as soon as I went in the next day. Had to go to employment standards to get a weeks severance pay for 1 year of working there. I had everything documented and the company had nothing. I think they were charged a whole $50 for not paying the severance. When I worked at the mall, I walked out of a meeting with HR after trying to voice my opinion about being written up. Of course they wouldn't allow me to have any witnesses as to what actually transpired.

My sister owns a hair salon and she'd rather pay the 2 weeks notice and have the employee leave right away. The last thing she needs is the leaving employee taking the salons clients away. Some clients are loyal to a stylist and will follow them but others could be new and don't care who does their hair or like the salon.
 

Nige

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G..G..G..Granville.........!! Fetch your cloth.
And they already brought up the john deere sticker on my toolbox lol. Unfortunately it's an adhesive type sticker that will take some paint with it lol.
Soften it with a heat gun..?

Glad to hear everything worked out for you. Keep us updated on progress with your new job. One thing that's not short around HEF is Cat experience......
 
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