 According to my contract if I hand my notice in within the next 3 days then I'll only need to give a weeks notice, after that it would be a month's.
Hypothetically speaking if I was to get a new job within the next 3 days how much notice would you give? the week or the month out of courtesy?
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 Depends if the company is worth giving notice to, I have walked out of companies on the day I have received a new job offer, unconcerned about burning bridges, in fact feeling quite happy that i could never return. Others I have been happy to negotiate a reasonable time to allow them to get a replacement.
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Are you sure that you are reading it correctly? Otherwise I would say if you are monthly paid, a month, and weekly paid a week
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 Never burn bridges. Will an 'early departure' help or would it just be nice?
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 If you're under contract then follow the contract otherwise you could be sued for breach of contract. It's always best to try and leave an employer on a good note but sometimes it's not possible to do this, you never know,you may go back to work for them in the future.
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 My contract said 7 days notice up to 1 year when after a year it became 3weeks.
My team is now heavily understaffed, which will contribute to the over unhappiness of everyone there which is one of the reason why I was so eager to leave.
I could have given extra notice at my work because I actually like my team, but I chose to give the minimum notice I could, despite wanting to just walk out of the job and telling the middle managers to go fuck themselves.
At the end of the day leaving a shit job on good terms will always mean I'll get a reference from them if needed.
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 It's extremely unlikely that you'd get sued for breach of contract, unless you're some high flying exec and haven't told us. I'd base my decision on how I'd been treated and how keen the next employer was for my services.
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To be honest companies never give good or bad references anymore anyway, its a legal minefield, all they say is he worked here from this date to that date. Which seems unfair on the face of it, but from the employees point of view, why should a company be allowed to give a bad reference justified or not, when employees can't give references to companies.
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X worked from date to date is effectively a 'bad' reference as from my understanding that's as far as they can say without breaking the law.
I also think they are allowed to state gross misconduct...which in my job could be as little as turning up late 3 days on the trot
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Yes but that is all you get from most companies HR departments now anyway, I have a few past managers who are willing to give me glowing referances seperate from the HR referances. I make it clear in interviews The thing in IT and I am sure many other industries now, everyone moves around, 2 or 3 years down the line the chance of being able to contact someones actuall line manager is actually quite low, so HR referances are all that can be got. Never burn bridges. Will an 'early departure' help or would it just be nice? I don't actually agree with that, if a company has treated you badly, and I have worked for a couple of shockers, I am not going to doff my cap and play the feudal peasant when I leave, I have more respect for myself than that.
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Does taking them to the industrial tribunal class as burning bridges ?
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Does taking them to the industrial tribunal class as burning bridges ? I haven't applied for a job for over 25 years but a friend told me that he was asked on an application form last year, 'have you ever taken part in an industrial tribunal?'
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Thats an interesting question, I doubt the legality of it.
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That's a pretty common question on application forms these days!
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doesn't mean its legal, I find that employment laws are frequently ignored as people are usually unwilling to complain. The employers currently hold all the aces, and the Government aren't interested in doing anything about it.
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Interesting MSP, I've always thought that the employment laws favoured the employee.
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Employment laws (for what they are in the UK) favour the employee, as long as there is a proper mechanism to implement them. As stated above if you are being badly treated/abused/bullied by your employer then a tribunal is a legal and legitimate course of action, if this is then held against you in gaining subsequent employment, that course of action is effectively stripped from you as a realistic possibility.
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 I always thought that a job interview was a test of your ability to lie through your teeth. If you do it well enough in the interview you get to do it for the company.  As for leaving I agree with MSP. If they've treated you well you give them plenty of notice (I let my boss at Welsh Water I was going long before I handed my notice in so he didn't get me working on things I wouldn't be around to finish). Teaching I walked out of on the spot, but most jobs I've just handed in my notice as stated in the contract.
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The things is I've been there just shy of 3 months come the 26th I'll have been there 3 months and so will need to give a month's rather than a week's notice according to my contract.
I told them a month's notice to be on the safe side. But I personally didn't thing I did well in the interview, which is a shame as they appear a good company to work for.
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 Last time I gave proper notice (as a bike courier) was given no jobs, so based on the way my waage was worked out (minimum hourly rate over a month) I earned about $200 in my last 2 weeks of working due to giving notice. Since then I've stuck to walking out when I've had enough. Worked so far!
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