I plan on leaving my employer for a new job with a two week notice, but a coworker has a vacation planned two weeks after I leave and there is no one else to provide cover. I would think asking to delay my start date with my new employer by a week would be reasonable, but two weeks might not be agreeable.
I don’t want to cause any friction with my new employer, but I also don’t want to leave on bad terms with my current employer. Will I be ineligible for rehire if I were to leave before my coworker takes off for vacation?
My concern is that if I am marked as not eligible for rehire that would show up in background checks by other jobs in the future.
No background check will go that deep.
You have given your notice. You have given the traditional two-week notice. You move on.
I get your point, but I saw the background check report for my current employer and they asked all my previous employers from the last seven years whether I was available for rehire.
Asking and caring can be very different.
Most employers will only ever answer the question of whether or not you were ever employed there. Beyond that, they risk being sued by former employees.
What the fuck do you do?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of such a thing.
As an employer I wouldn’t even confirm someone worked for me unless they had personally asked me for a reference, and even that only applies to recent employees. I wouldn’t act as a reference for someone 5 years later.
It’s a law firm so I guess it’s normal for the industry.
So what does your employment contract say?
It doesn’t state any specifics related to leaving other than that being an at will agreement.
Keep a copy of that contract and if they cause any issues for you over giving notice, sue the ever-lovin fuck out of them.
Yeah most roles I have done have required that kind of checkup but usually the only parts companies have to say is start date, end date and eligible for rehire, and as far as I’ve seen you basically have to do some criminal shit to get classed as entirely ineligible for rehire
Wow, what do you do, bodyguard?
You can do everything correctly and still have someone say they wouldn’t rehire you for X. I think it’s better to look forward and not back.
“We wouldn’t re-hire him because he didn’t fuck up his next job right out of the gate to make things a little bit easier on us” isn’t the massive own you think it is.
I wouldn’t be concerned about that. Businesses are strongly discouraged from badmouthing former employees unless you did something explicitly terrible or criminal. Worst case scenario is they would give no comment if given as a reference.
Unless you stab your boss and set fire to the building on your way out the door, you can have zero worries about your end of employment details showing up on a background check.
Nope.
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