Normal for a manager to treat employee badly after turning in notice?

[sungrl01]

I recently put in my notice at work and ever since then my nurse manager has been treating me badly. But before my notice she was NOTHING like this..is this normal? Its crazy..and the charge nurse who has always been negative has all of a sudden trying to be extra sweet and offering to help me with my patients and offering to buy me and a co worker dinner cause we were there late. It's weird..is this behavior normal? I know we have employee surveys due now and I have exit interview coming up but def unprofessional behavior of manager after notice.

[westieluv]

I have been treated very coldly by previously friendly management after I gave notice and proceeded to work out my two weeks. It's frustrating to try to do the right thing by giving notice when others have just up and quit with no notice, only to be given the cold shoulder, but yeah, I guess this probably is normal behavior to some extent. It seems like people take it personally when you leave their company and they have to try to find a replacement and train them, but that's life.

[TriciaJ, RN]

It's certainly not unheard of. Sometimes a manager will treat you poorly when you give notice; sometimes they'll turn on the charm and try to get you to stay. I've asked one prospective employer to please not call my current employer unless they are seriously considering hiring me.

I've never not given notice, but sometimes those two weeks are the longest two weeks of my life.

[sneed1o1, BSN, RN]

Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. When I was first hired on, it should've been a red flag that the manager seemed controlling from he beginning. Not to mention, the supervisor told me during the interview that they were short-handed! I voiced my concern regarding unfair scheduling that seemed to favor a select group of nurses over others, and with an attitude she basically told me to not worry about their schedules and how she did me a favor by hiring me with only 1 year of experience. As you can imagine, I began to self-schedule myself as others were doing, and the manager had a little "chat" with ME about the scheduling requirements...and THAT is when I began to make my exit. Two weeks notice was sent, and to my surprise, the manager and supervisor became REALLY nice towards me. HA! Watch those kinds of people, they will try to manipulate you. I made sure I mentioned this in the exit survey.