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Yeah I knew it wasn't the right wording I just couldn't remember exactly what it was called.

But that's exactly what I was bringing up. I'm supposed to work a 2 week notice but they can fire me instantly because I didn't smile at the manager when walking into work.

If your employer fires you suddenly for no reason, there’s no real consequences.

Depends on the industry and location. If they do that a few times in relatively small industry, or in a captured but small market, word gets around and suddenly that company has difficulty hiring in the future.

And you're not entitled to FMLA until you've been somewhere for a year! Our society is so hostile to the average person.

It's the same in my state but unemployment is only a fraction of what you made hourly

Are you saying that in countries where employers can't just make up reasons to divest themselves of employees without repercussion or paying unemployment that the employees themselves are somehow bound to their employer and can't just walk out?

Unless you're under some contract, I don't see how that would be enforced other than having laws on the books in individual countries about a minimum required notice.

Even if a country DOES have laws on the books stating all employees in all full time jobs must provide x weeks of notice before quitting, if the same country has a bunch more clauses to protect employees from employers than the U.S. currently does I have to imagine there are protections in place for the employees in cases of hostile work environments or whatever.

I can't see a situation where a country that protects employees from the sort of hostile, predatory, dehumanizing behavior we see carried out consistently by U.S. companies wouldn't have continued to take said employees into account while also protecting their country's employers from things like large scale business-wide walkouts or whatnot.

The "cool down" period in many cases is just a few days when it's the employee resigning. If your job sucks so much that you can't stomach being at it for another week, you've got other problems.

In practice, employment contracts are always good for employees and usually bad for employers. You don't want to be locked into a job? Then don't sign a contract that locks you in. Just refuse, as just about any sane person would.

Employers WOULD refuse to be locked in, except sane governments force them to. Sane governments do not force regular citizens into indentured servitude.

That's why I brought up a restructuring. The ability to quit whenever should always be an option but being fired without notice for anything that isn't just gross incompetence/negligence should not. I should be able to quit because my manager pissed me off. I shouldn't get fired because I pissed the manager off.

Every (US) job description I've had save one had a line to the effect of "... and other duties as required by management." Not to follow would be considered insubordination and could lead to termination with cause. Job description in this case is just a broad-stroke outline of what the job is supposed to entail.

The "save one" was a job with a strong union presence. In that case, going outside my job description could lead to me and my manager being in trouble.

You think they operate without those people without others picking up some slack?

You got one of those five gallon bucket shitters at your desk? The reverb is amazing.

Are you my coworker that grunts and strains when others are in the bathroom?

They did away with his division, reassigned him to a new department where you’re on call 24/7 working holidays and weekends

He might have a case for constructive dismissal; he might want to talk with an employment lawyer. Constructive dismissal can include "Making unreasonable changes to an employees’ working hours or place of work".

tale as old as time. we'll make your life a living hell until you quit just so we don't have to pay to fire you.

This is quite literally the definition for “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

I didn't get any severance because I was "laid off" after I became disabled. Probably should have fought that, but...I had just become disabled.

Reassigning people into jobs that they hate in hopes that they quit, to avoid paying severance packages.

IBM technique.

Nice.

When I did sales management in the late 80s to mid 90s, we called them "penalty boxes." To get a manager to quit, you reassign then to a store or location that is either guaranteed to be soul sucking, high crime, or otherwise not profitable enough to make commission or bonuses. They do that in education as well, like send teachers to difficult schools to get them to quit and skirt union rules.