I plan on leaving my employer for a new job with a two week notice, but a coworker has a vacation planned two weeks after I leave and there is no one else to provide cover. I would think asking to delay my start date with my new employer by a week would be reasonable, but two weeks might not be agreeable.
I don’t want to cause any friction with my new employer, but I also don’t want to leave on bad terms with my current employer. Will I be ineligible for rehire if I were to leave before my coworker takes off for vacation?
Do not delay the start date of your new job. You have given your notice and have a new job lined up. There is no action needed. Any place worth a damn would not hold it against you won’t delay your departure.
Your current and soon to be ex-co-workers comings and goings are not your problem.
Now as far as being rehired by your current place. That will be based on how good of an employee you were and the scarcity of your skill sets.
My concern is that if I am marked as not eligible for rehire that would show up in background checks by other jobs in the future.
No background check will go that deep.
You have given your notice. You have given the traditional two-week notice. You move on.
I get your point, but I saw the background check report for my current employer and they asked all my previous employers from the last seven years whether I was available for rehire.
Asking and caring can be very different.
Most employers will only ever answer the question of whether or not you were ever employed there. Beyond that, they risk being sued by former employees.
Unless you stab your boss and set fire to the building on your way out the door, you can have zero worries about your end of employment details showing up on a background check.
“We wouldn’t re-hire him because he didn’t fuck up his next job right out of the gate to make things a little bit easier on us” isn’t the massive own you think it is.