Notice Period

Before waving good bye to your old boss, one is compelled to render a notice period. This, as they say, is an instrument concocted by the HR Department gods, to serve as protection for both you and the company.

Notice Periods can range from 30 days to 90 days depending on the prevailing legal laws or whatever you where dumb enough to agree with during your more happier encounters with your company's human resources department peons.

Now, even though I see the logic and understand the principles behind this, I simply refuse to allow myself to be forced in to a negotiation on delaying this notice period simply because the company can, within its privileges, call upon the cruelest, most evil invention known to man - the provisional clause.

Personally, I think that the HR and Admin Manager is using this clause to get back at me for giving him several sleepless nights in the past as he struggles on each conference meetings with the big boys to explain his more recent soirees.

Most of us don't really know that within the recessed pages of our contracts lies this diabolical clause of lamentation until it is pretty much too late for us to do something about it.

Some contracts contain the clause with the simple purpose of providing the company, precious delaying time and leverage, if in case you would elect to ditch them.

Statements on contracts like ---

"These responsibilities along with whatever task the company deems necessary in the normal line of your duties..."

I tell you, I can no longer count the number of lives destroyed, mutilated by these words.

In the end though, its every man for himself. One has to be forever vigilant, reading and understanding the contract thoroughly before signing, and to demand clarification if you feel that the clause is too vague or is maliciously constructed.