Leaving A Job

Leaving a job can be terrifying for some and a minor inconvenience for others.  A worker with a high level of leverage in switching jobs or falling back on alternative life plans has little to fear in quitting even a job they just obtained, but a worker with little to no workforce experience or a great deal of uncertainty about their future (almost everything about the future is philosophically uncertain, but I mean in the sense of not having a fairly secure course of action in mind.  As for when leaving a job is a minor inconvenience, other than for workers in a very fortunate situation, for many employers, having a worker leave with or withotu notice is not necessarily the devastating blow that conservatives love to exaggerate it as.  A rational employer would understand multiple legitimate reasons why a worker might leave even if the departure is an inconvenience for them.  Preference is irrelevant.

Misleading or incomplete job information, an oppressive work environment, a better opportunity, or even a simple change of willingness to work in general or to work that job in particular are all entirely valid reasons to quit a job--no matter how recently or long ago that job was accepted.  Merely realizing that the job is not a good emotional fit justifies leaving a job in itself, at least on the Christian worldview, where it is Biblically true that there is no obligation that contradicts this (Deuteronomy 4:2).  Plenty of people might panic at the thought of either complying with or disregarding the laws of American federal or state governments, and conservatives selectively fall into the latter category.  They tend to believe that employees somehow unjustly injure businesses by quitting their jobs or changing their mind about non-obligatory decisions, and on every level, this position is false--they have nothing to stand on epistemologically, there is no logical necessity in the opposite being true, and the Bible, as was just described, does not command anything that contradicts this.

I am not speaking of "at will" employment when I say that that there is nothing demonstrably evil or shortsighted by default about leaving a job suddenly, with or without notice, for the laws of a country are epistemologically irrelevant to if this is morally acceptable or philosophically valid behavior, and legal customs are also irrelevant to whether it is true that these things are permissible.  It is logically true that there is neither logical proof demonstrating nor fallible evidences suggesting that there is anything oppressive or otherwise evil about just leaving a job on a whim, given that one's motivations are not hypocritical, selfish, counterproductive, or irrational in some other way.  Moreover, it is demonstrably true that it does not logically follow from abruptly quitting a job, even the very day of the hiring, because of the reasons mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

No one would believe the contrary of this because of reason, for even if it was true, they could not possibly prove it to themselves since it would not be true by logical necessity except in light of factors human limitations prevent people from knowing.  Some people might still believe the contrary is true because of emotional attachment to ideas exalting the workplace (especially if they benefit if those ideas are true or even just treated as if they are true) or because of societal pressures from years of employees being tossed aside without realizing they are not being cruel in leaving a job even if they were only just hired.  Ironically, the conservatives who idiotically worship arbitrary human laws are likely to object to this even when it the at will resignation of an employee is legally allowed!  Like anyone who actually believes that arbitrary social constructs are valid, conservatives often only selectively approve of laws as they are situationally beneficial to them.

Beyond this, it is not as if suddenly leaving a strong company that is in all probability able to easily find a replacement worker is a major blow to them, and it is not as if all workers who leave a company quickly--either with short notice (giving a notice of two weeks is only a random tradition) or by leaving very soon after getting accepted for a job--are maliciously acting against their employers.  Employees and employers can change their course without exploiting each other in any way or in any direction.  However, it can be much easier for a company to replace a worker than it is for a worker to find a new job that pays more than the bare legal minimum, so it is in a worker's best interests to stay with or leave companies as most benefits them, given that they are not engaging in any sort of injustice along the way.  Conservatives will just loudly protest this despite having absolutely nothing to stand on but assumptions and preferences, the very things they pretend believing in conservatism does not rely on!