Employee gives 2 weeks’ notice; boss tells him he can leave in 2 days, not realizing he still had to deliver important reports: ‘They quickly emailed back and said “on second thought, you can stay for the full 2 weeks and get those reports done!”’

Being decently petty is the best kind of pettyBeing petty is fun and sometimes very necessary. I always say this, but the petty card should be played only when necessary to send a contundent message that won't land any other way, and I think this is the perfect example of that.Now that I think about it, being decently petty is just another way of being maliciously compliant. In this case, if the manager needs him to stay for an extra two weeks, he now has to rehire him.Managers generally undervalue us as employees, but we have to keep working for them because we don't have anything else lined up. That is, until the day we can finally jump into a better position and say goodbye to those daily hours of being underappreciated.Sadly, a lot of managers think we won't be able to find anything better on the market, and as a result, they take us for granted. I know sometimes it can be hard to tell, but they are human, just like us, and they tend to get triggered and offended when somebody decides to jump to another opportunity and leave them behind. So they can react just like teenagers, saying something along the lines of : 'Go then, go with your new best friends!' Not really understandi…

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