Can You Get Fired For Telling Your Boss You're Looking For Another Job

Can You Get Fired For Telling Your Boss You're Looking For Another Job
[00:00:00] This is another good question. Can you get fired for telling your boss you're looking for another job?
Yes, you can. Again, I don't know if that's legal. I'm not an employment attorney, but I've seen that happen. And very rarely, a couple of times in my career, and typically, it wouldn't be at a large firm or anything like that.
It would be, when you're working for someone, that's a very small type of firm where you're working for someone with a small ego or something. I guess it'd be large or a small ego. But, that just takes everything very personally and blows it out of proportion.
If you tell someone you're looking for a job, all that's going to mean they're certainly going to believe that they need to replace you. But the other big thing about that is, once you do that you do put yourself in a situation where you're going to need to, in most cases, you're going to need to be able to find a job fairly quickly, because if you tell people you're looking for a job, they may say, okay why don't you plan on leaving within the next month or two, because they don't want you to be working there and unengaged and they want people to have better committed.
The best law firms, by the way, just don't want people around there that are driving everyone down and so forth. [00:01:00] And not working hard and not engaged, not doing the best work they can. It's very easy not to do the best work you can if you're looking for other jobs, you just need to be very careful.