No! My permanent record!

Two weeks is bullshit. Not a law nor rule.

They wouldn't have given him 2 weeks if he was fired.

Fuck them

They're not wrong though, assuming they're in the UK and/or their contract agrees a minimum of two weeks notice, as is standard.

This applies both ways. I expect this employee would be angry if their employer breached their contract to sack them immediately without this notice, but if the employee breaches those same terms of their agreed contract that's....okay? No.

Regardless of their feelings, it's very unprofessional, petty even, and depending on how litigious and unhappy with them their employer is, not a very smart idea.

There are many edge cases where things must be looked at differently of course (someone resigning over harassment at work would not wish to remain there for a fortnight serving their notice for example), but this must be discussed and agreed upon, because again, it deviates from the legally binding contractual agreement they both signed.

This employee, regardless of any legitimate grievances, in this communication is unprofessional, petty, and frankly childish.

While I don't know the story behind their falling out, I suspect the employer will be glad to see them go. I wouldn't want them working for me, or even work with them as a colleague. They sound awful.

My last job was retail, worked there is different areas for 13 years. Took some pride in outlasting a bunch of shitty managers that kept trying to do anything they could to get me fired or to quit, never knew why, but they were never able to fire me, so I can only assume they were trying to cut down on full-time positions.

Ended needing to quit because I couldn't find a new place to live in my area after my previous landlord decided to stop renting the place. Gave them 2 weeks notice and they started treating me even shittier, so I bailed on the day we were supposed to do inventory. Kinda fucked them over, but I didn't give a shit anymore. I'm never going to work for them again anyway, even if I kept that door open.

There's only one state in the U.S., and since it's an iPhone, sorry, kind of assuming you're in the States, that that's true in.

I have attempted the 2 week's notice 3 times. Only 1 of which have I actually made it to the end. First job in HS, I had no bad blood, but it was a union shop that paid like .10 over min wage. When the union tried to shake me down for dues (of which they wanted like 2 check's worth of money since I was the Lowest level and only working part time) I told them no thank you, put in 2 weeks notice, worked til the end.

2nd job it was the end of high school, 2 weeks notice was in bc off to college. The company fires my boss, then I tell his replacement I need x and y days off next week for grad night/ graduation related activities. I show up the next day and it's a different guy working who made the schedule without talking to anyone apparently. I told him I had asked the other lady for X and Y days off. "Well, right now you're scheduled to work, if you want those days off, you're going to need to get someone to cover your shift."

I'm good chief, I'll take my last check please.

The other one I had the new job desperately needing help and wanting me to start ASAP, so I worked it out where I was going to grind a 60+ hr week where I'd train in the AM at the new job and take a late shift at the old job. The 2nd day I was burnt out asf. I walk into the old job at 6 pm after grinding 8 hrs at the new job to a severely understaffed store and I was supposed to close down with the worst fellow supervisor we had. She was a very sweet older lady, but she was just slow at absolutely everything she did. I knew that closing with her while short a cashier and a bagger meant I'd be doing double/ triple duty that night and getting out an hour later than usual. I just said fuck this shit and bounced. I made up some sob story about personal issues going on to not completely burn that bridge and actually kept eligibility for rehire, but I was fucking done with that place.