You get a new job or whatever and know you need to quit. Most people know to give 2 weeks. There could be a scenario that an employee could decide that the next 2 weeks are their “2 weeks” but not tell the employer until those 2 weeks are over, essentially giving the employer a 0 day notice.

However, I don’t think employees would do that on a mass scale just to screw an employer over for a policy they have and a onetime thing that happened in the OP, unless their are deeper issues and the employees just don’t like the employer.

People generally will just give their 2 weeks because that’s the norm, and in the socioeconomic scenario that I described, I think most employees will make sure to give a proper 2 weeks because that’s what the policy is and not run the risk of going unpaid. Now if company policy of giving 2 weeks isn’t honored, then that’s a different discussion, but it seems from the OP that if you give 2 weeks, then you’ll be fine.

Essentially, my point is that we don’t have enough context from the OP to just draw a conclusion that something will happen. It very well may have been a bad decision, but there isn’t enough context to be conclusive.

Hopefully that made more sense.