Most companies define job abandonment as absence without notice for three or more days in a row. The employer is required to accept your resignation, but doesn't have to accept the offer of 2-weeks.If a written contract describes an employee's duties, the employer cannot change the job duties without notice. This unfortunately happens. You don't give notice till all background checks etc are completed. Under the Texas Education Code, contract employees are required to resign no later than 45 days before the first day of instruction for the school year. I accepted a job offer through an email but I have not yet signed the contract. Is it possible to back out of the job. Be it known that on the day of. , (year), at the request of.