What a crap thing to do, if you expect two weeks notice from your employees be damn sure to grant two weeks to people you hire..
My total severance package from the company that laid me off was "we'll pay you until the end of the day." I had been there continually for nearly 8 years, and had worked there previously for another 4 1/2 years.
That day was spent calling my appointments, letting them know that I wouldn't be there, and filling in the other field engineers on what I was working on.
Mark
It depends on the situation really. We were recently hiring for an open position in our IT Dept. We needed the position filled quickly and people requiring to work out a long notice of 2 weeks or more weighted in a negative way when we were evaluating our candidates.