Happy Liberation day to OP. To the question about giving notice, some states are right to work, meaning the employees and the employer don't have to really give notice, your employment is at will. Giving notice only slightly helps you go back to that employer without burning bridges. But if they didn't like you, they could just put you on a a blacklist and not hire you ever again. It's up to them. It's technically illegal for a previous employer to say to the next employer you walked out, didn't give notice, etc, and all they can really do is verify a person worked here starting X date and ending X date. That's why a lot of big companies use a third party, so they can't say disparaging things about an employee. It would be pretty impossible to prove you didn't get a job because prior employer gave a poor employment verification.