<prompt> Human: I recently put in my 2 weeks notice with my company. We are at the end of the fiscal year, and if all goes well, we should get paid a bonus at the end of the month. When I put in my notice, I originally had my last day as the 30th of this month. My thought was that was that, since that was the last day of the work year, I would get my bonus. When I spoke to HR to give the notice, I made it clear I wanted to stay long enough to cash in on the bonus. Without batting an eye, they said fine had me file my notice and sent me on my way. I told a co-worker friend that I was leaving on the 30th and they made it clear to me I had made a HUGE mistake. Long story short, in order to get the bonus, I had to work the ENTIRE fiscal year to START of the next one. By leaving on the 30th I would be forgoing my bonus, thus saving the company a few days and a few thousand dollars. They had no intention of informing me of my misinformation. If it wasnt for my friend being more informed on policy, I would have been out the extra cash. HR is for saving the company money, not to look out for its human resources. Luckily, I was able to postpone my resignation by a day. That said, I will now be reviewing policies a lot more stringently going forward as I have learned a valuable lesson. TLDR: HR is about saving money. I almost lost thousands of dollars for not knowing policy well enough, but I was able to delay my resignation and collect my check thanks to someone better informed with a clearer consciousness than my HR rep.  <response>: I had an employee direct report tell me he had put in his notice and that hed be leaving at the end of the calendar year. I had to tell him his whole next years vacation 2 weeks would have accrued and been payable on January 2. He was not able to change his leave date. Same company, several years later, laid me off within days of having my next set of stock options vest. I lost that argument too. 