Gave 60 days notice, boss said to leave before Christmas

HillStreetBlues

user19860331 said:

elsien said:

You didn’t really have the other hand though, did you, because if they’d wanted you to work your full notice and your new start date was before then that could have been difficult for you.
Your boss may be a bully in other areas, but the situation as you described it in with them not wanting to pay you over the Christmas period to do nothing after you asked to negotiate an earlier end date isn’t bullying.

You haven't seen the full email conversation and are judging just by my vague overview, it was without a doubt bullying and I'm certainly not the first victim of it in that place

I also knew i had the upper hand because it wouldn't have been catastrophic if I'd had to work 2 months and I could tell my boss wanted me out asap.

The way you have sounded on here, I expect you will also have the upper hand with your new boss.