Woman Shares Her Boss’ Delusional Email With Out-Of-Touch Rules After 3 Employees Quit At The Same Time
Ah, the Great Resignation, a movement that makes companies watch their employees walk away from their jobs like there’s no tomorrow. It inspired a sharp rise in the resignation letter scenarios, leaving employers with nothing but confusion and accusatory comments about how nobody wants to work anymore. But the truth is, people do want to work. Just not for bosses who are controlling, belittling, and abusing their power every chance they get.
Unfortunately, user notsatans’ supervisor seems to be one of them. A week ago, the worker shared a screenshot to the Anti Work subreddit of an unhinged email the staff received after three employees handed in their notice on the same day. The manager’s rant not only implied the quitters had zero consideration for their coworkers’ families and lives but he also informed them about the “new terms” of resigning.
However, if there’s one thing we know about unreasonable management rules, they often backfire in the best possible way. Scroll down to read the whole email and the user’s update on the situation, and be sure to share your thoughts about it in the comments below!
Recently, a woman posted a screenshot on the Anti Work subreddit of her manager’s furious and irrational email after he found out three employees had quit on the same day
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Image credits: notsatans
After reading the email, it may be hard to believe that some bosses can act so out of touch. But unfortunately, such behavior from management is nothing new. We’ve well aware of the petty and entitled bosses who think they can treat their workers as pawns in their little games, and there’s only so much an employee can take before deciding to firmly hand in their resignation letter.
Interestingly, we might be hearing a lot more stories like this one. According to recent research, almost half of employed Americans are considering walking away from their current jobs. These results come from the 2022 Workplace Belonging Survey that was commissioned by Ipsos on behalf of researcher, speaker, and expert on psychological capital Dr. Rumeet Billan. It found that those who are thinking about making the switch lack a sense of belonging at work, which is usually associated with being treated fairly and respectfully.
“We have recently undergone life-altering challenges as a population, exposing the need for workplace cultures to be transformed,” Dr. Billan told PR Newswire. “More than 19 million American workers have quit their jobs since April 2021, disrupting businesses everywhere. Companies cannot afford to continue going through this type of employee turnover. It is important that we take the time to learn why this is happening and our recent findings suggest that workers place a high value on the very human and relational aspects of work.”
When people are sick and tired of feeling undervalued by their employer, they choose to take action. And today, multiple resignations are hardly surprising. After Covid shook up the world, workers in the United States decided they had enough of the inhumane working conditions, tyrant bosses, low pay, and lack of opportunities for improvement. The Great Resignation made employers watch people leaving the workforce en masse, and the situation is far from being resolved.
Around 4.4 million American workers walked away from their jobs in February, just a tad higher than in January. Businesses had a tough time finding workers for all the empty roles since there were 11.3 million job openings to fill, but only 6.7 million people were hired that month.
Here are some of the reactions people had after reading the email
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Bored Panda previously reached out to Dr. Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at May Business School at Texas A&M University and organizational psychologist who coined the term “The Great Resignation”. “Most of the time, when you’re an employee and you work for a company — the company has all the power. As soon as you decide to quit, the power balance shifts,” he told us.
“The resignation period is the last chance to get even with your company. If your company’s treated you well, that’s your last chance to pay them back,” Klotz said and added that the same principle applies if things went the other way around. Moreover, if your supervisor’s behavior suddenly changed after you handed in the two weeks’ notice, the professor compares it to the feeling of being dumped. “How do people usually respond when somebody breaks up with them? We get upset and say, ‘Fine, get lost.’ In the same way, emotions can get the best of supervisors as well,” he told us.
The good news is that Klotz believes the last few decades showed a change in a more positive direction. “It used to be that it was always a betrayal. Now, if an employee is resigning, more and more organizations say, ‘Let’s send them on their way, wish them good luck and continue to keep in touch with them so that we can bring them back as a ‘boomerang employee’ at some point in the future.'”
“When I do hear about managers handling it poorly, I understand the psychology of why it happens. Not only you’ve made the manager’s job more difficult because they have to manage the remaining employees who now have a larger workload. They also might start thinking, ‘Why did she leave? Maybe we should follow them?'”
However, this does not seem to apply to this particular case. The user who shared the screenshots to Anti Work is not planning on leaving the company just yet, but she was already making arrangements to remove herself from the team, leaving her supervisor with another spot to fill. But it seems that won’t be necessary since she also revealed he was forced to leave the company after the story broke out.
Later on, the user made another post with an update on this whole situation
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Image credits: notsatans
Guess you're somewhere you can also get fired without notice? The notice period is a contractual obligation here in Australia (for almost all work) If I don't give notice I can have my pay withheld for the length of notice I should have given.
Load More Replies...How is that rule even enforceable? I can see an employer waiting three months for someone to start a new job if it's in certain professions (such as a law firm) or the candidate is especially desirable. In most place, that would be quite a stretch.
Load More Replies...An emergency on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. But if you’ve always been nice to me, I’ll try to help if I possibly can. If you’ve always been a jerk, then jerk off.
Where I come from the saying is, "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine".
Load More Replies...Myj reply would be something like "Dear Bu77head: it is the attitude shown by this email that has inspired me to find employment elsewhere. You REALLY need to get a clue. As for any change in the leaving-notice requirements? Bite me - I'm outta here. Sincerely hoping that when you get home, your mother runs out from under the porch and bites you on the leg."
And, who would work that notice at all? You would only be leaving if you had better opportunities elsewhere. Like a better job, or you no longer needed to work, for whatever reason.
Load More Replies...Funny how I’m expected to give notice to my job, yet received no notice all when I was laid off after 10 years. Consider yourselves lucky if I give you any warning at all.
This is my favorite part: "’better opportunities’ (doubtful. we pay you all fair wages)“… Like they all left a good paying job for worse opportunities just to make life hard for their boss and coworkers. 😂
Now, you might be shocked but here in the modern nordic welfare state where there are lot's of laws protecting employers, good vacations, flexible hours, well managed sick leaves etc etc a one month notice time is a minimum and it could be even 6 months in some cases..
But then again, as pointed out - we can't be fired at the whim of a boss and be expected to leave that same day, we're protected. Neither would we be commanded to take the company's entire function and planning on our shoulders and it's frowned upon to emotionally blackmail employees with their co-workers poor, poor children. I don't know: I think what I mean is that it's a very different culture and system altogether. If an employer can fire anyone they want to for any reason at all at any time, it seems reasonable that the employees at LEAST has the right to leave when they wish. Or that's how I figure it, anyway.
Load More Replies...I'm a little bit worried about that last line, "legal action is being taken against this employee". Does that mean legal action against the (ex) boss or legal action against the author?
Okay, just checked out the Reddit post. From some context BP neglected to copy over, it sounds like the ex-boss was fired and that's who the legal action is against.
Load More Replies...Most likely written in a state with an at will law on the books, which cuts both ways. Jerk boss just guaranteed the 2 minute rule will now be invoked by employees for the standard form of notice.
3 months' notice? Nope, I won't sign it, so what are you gonna do, fire me? Also, I'm there to do a job, period, so I don't EVER consider coworkers or YOU in my decisions. You are NOT family. Get over yourself.. .
If this guy would live by the Golden Rule, he'd find his retention rate skyrocket. It's really very easy.
Just about everything this boss did was actionable before any labour tribunal on the planet. A two week notice is a courtesy, not a requirement, and to demand a three month notice is absolutely ridiculous. Reducing wages during a notice period is illegal in just about every jurisdiction on earth, unless there is a provision regarding it in an employment contract. And let's not even get started on the "employees with children" comment. That would be discriminatory against people without children, and apparently the only person who was affected was the boss anyway, since he(?) "would have to spend an evening posting jobs on LinkedIn (Oh...you mean actually DO YOUR JOB?), instead of spending the evening at his daughter's recital. Boss needs to put on his big boy briefs and deal with it. The good thing is that the boss ended up under investigation after the s**t hit the fan behind this.
Could be worse. They could sue you to stay. https://www.businessinsider.com/thedacare-asks-judge-block-workers-leaving-higher-pay-competitor-2022-1
California is mostly (if not totally) an "at will" state, meaning employers can fire you at any time, with no warning. So, THEY won't give you 2 weeks notice so why should the employees? I will if the company doesn't/hasn't treated me like trash.
Only notice they’d get is a shouted “f**k you I quit!” as I walk out the door. Some people don’t deserve to run a company
I'm sick of two things: managers who shift the blame to those who don't take their shenenigans anymore - and people referring to other people's kids as reason for me to do or not do anything. I mean, you can have a stressful life without children. I have parents who need a bit of help here and there, do they count, too? I decided to not have any children, not for no reason, but for several reasons. This includes personal freedom n many regards. I may do people a favor, and may so in order to enable a Dad to go to his children's play, or to enable a Ma to do the same, or whatever, but ... but I don't owe that. No one owes me any to make me able to hang out with the cat every day (I work elsewhere, some days remote from home, some days in the office). Let's just not make a big fuss of it, exchange favors for whatever reason, and ally up to get rid of this kind of Boss, any chance someone else finds that better?
Three months notice is fairly common here. Doesn't it say in your contract how long you have to give notice? Here, you can't just up and leave, you'd be in breach of the contract you signed. But also your employer will have to give three months notice when firing you, and they can't make unilateral changes to those agreements.
Looks like this is in the US. Maybe in certain industries there might be contracts like that (I don’t know) but it’s certainly not common. I’m 38 and I’ve never had a contract dictating the required notice. We can also be fired here without notice and for essentially any reason (except for things legally considered discrimination).
Load More Replies...Ha ha ha ha no. No, that's not how things work. And if every single employee is personally responsible for the company in its entirety: WHY would the boss need higher pay? Why would he be needed at all? I do believe we have possibly run into a little boomer snowflake who hasn't had to leave his own tiny bubble since he started high school. Possibly never.
Guess you're somewhere you can also get fired without notice? The notice period is a contractual obligation here in Australia (for almost all work) If I don't give notice I can have my pay withheld for the length of notice I should have given.
Load More Replies...How is that rule even enforceable? I can see an employer waiting three months for someone to start a new job if it's in certain professions (such as a law firm) or the candidate is especially desirable. In most place, that would be quite a stretch.
Load More Replies...An emergency on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. But if you’ve always been nice to me, I’ll try to help if I possibly can. If you’ve always been a jerk, then jerk off.
Where I come from the saying is, "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine".
Load More Replies...Myj reply would be something like "Dear Bu77head: it is the attitude shown by this email that has inspired me to find employment elsewhere. You REALLY need to get a clue. As for any change in the leaving-notice requirements? Bite me - I'm outta here. Sincerely hoping that when you get home, your mother runs out from under the porch and bites you on the leg."
And, who would work that notice at all? You would only be leaving if you had better opportunities elsewhere. Like a better job, or you no longer needed to work, for whatever reason.
Load More Replies...Funny how I’m expected to give notice to my job, yet received no notice all when I was laid off after 10 years. Consider yourselves lucky if I give you any warning at all.
This is my favorite part: "’better opportunities’ (doubtful. we pay you all fair wages)“… Like they all left a good paying job for worse opportunities just to make life hard for their boss and coworkers. 😂
Now, you might be shocked but here in the modern nordic welfare state where there are lot's of laws protecting employers, good vacations, flexible hours, well managed sick leaves etc etc a one month notice time is a minimum and it could be even 6 months in some cases..
But then again, as pointed out - we can't be fired at the whim of a boss and be expected to leave that same day, we're protected. Neither would we be commanded to take the company's entire function and planning on our shoulders and it's frowned upon to emotionally blackmail employees with their co-workers poor, poor children. I don't know: I think what I mean is that it's a very different culture and system altogether. If an employer can fire anyone they want to for any reason at all at any time, it seems reasonable that the employees at LEAST has the right to leave when they wish. Or that's how I figure it, anyway.
Load More Replies...I'm a little bit worried about that last line, "legal action is being taken against this employee". Does that mean legal action against the (ex) boss or legal action against the author?
Okay, just checked out the Reddit post. From some context BP neglected to copy over, it sounds like the ex-boss was fired and that's who the legal action is against.
Load More Replies...Most likely written in a state with an at will law on the books, which cuts both ways. Jerk boss just guaranteed the 2 minute rule will now be invoked by employees for the standard form of notice.
3 months' notice? Nope, I won't sign it, so what are you gonna do, fire me? Also, I'm there to do a job, period, so I don't EVER consider coworkers or YOU in my decisions. You are NOT family. Get over yourself.. .
If this guy would live by the Golden Rule, he'd find his retention rate skyrocket. It's really very easy.
Just about everything this boss did was actionable before any labour tribunal on the planet. A two week notice is a courtesy, not a requirement, and to demand a three month notice is absolutely ridiculous. Reducing wages during a notice period is illegal in just about every jurisdiction on earth, unless there is a provision regarding it in an employment contract. And let's not even get started on the "employees with children" comment. That would be discriminatory against people without children, and apparently the only person who was affected was the boss anyway, since he(?) "would have to spend an evening posting jobs on LinkedIn (Oh...you mean actually DO YOUR JOB?), instead of spending the evening at his daughter's recital. Boss needs to put on his big boy briefs and deal with it. The good thing is that the boss ended up under investigation after the s**t hit the fan behind this.
Could be worse. They could sue you to stay. https://www.businessinsider.com/thedacare-asks-judge-block-workers-leaving-higher-pay-competitor-2022-1
California is mostly (if not totally) an "at will" state, meaning employers can fire you at any time, with no warning. So, THEY won't give you 2 weeks notice so why should the employees? I will if the company doesn't/hasn't treated me like trash.
Only notice they’d get is a shouted “f**k you I quit!” as I walk out the door. Some people don’t deserve to run a company
I'm sick of two things: managers who shift the blame to those who don't take their shenenigans anymore - and people referring to other people's kids as reason for me to do or not do anything. I mean, you can have a stressful life without children. I have parents who need a bit of help here and there, do they count, too? I decided to not have any children, not for no reason, but for several reasons. This includes personal freedom n many regards. I may do people a favor, and may so in order to enable a Dad to go to his children's play, or to enable a Ma to do the same, or whatever, but ... but I don't owe that. No one owes me any to make me able to hang out with the cat every day (I work elsewhere, some days remote from home, some days in the office). Let's just not make a big fuss of it, exchange favors for whatever reason, and ally up to get rid of this kind of Boss, any chance someone else finds that better?
Three months notice is fairly common here. Doesn't it say in your contract how long you have to give notice? Here, you can't just up and leave, you'd be in breach of the contract you signed. But also your employer will have to give three months notice when firing you, and they can't make unilateral changes to those agreements.
Looks like this is in the US. Maybe in certain industries there might be contracts like that (I don’t know) but it’s certainly not common. I’m 38 and I’ve never had a contract dictating the required notice. We can also be fired here without notice and for essentially any reason (except for things legally considered discrimination).
Load More Replies...Ha ha ha ha no. No, that's not how things work. And if every single employee is personally responsible for the company in its entirety: WHY would the boss need higher pay? Why would he be needed at all? I do believe we have possibly run into a little boomer snowflake who hasn't had to leave his own tiny bubble since he started high school. Possibly never.
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