I'm interested that most of you are talking about two weeks notice when leaving a job.. Here in New Zealand the standard for IT (in my experience) is four weeks but my previous employer has been setting the notice for new IT staff as two months (calendar months, not eight weeks!!). I left there in September last year after handing in my notice in June!! Their justification (to me when I questioned it in my contract) was it allowed them time to recruit your replacement, have them work out their 1 month notice then have a couple of weeks hand-over... Can't say there is a lot of motivation left after 2 months...