'I tried to quit my job today and my boss told me no': Woman gives resignation and toxic boss blatantly ignores it, attempts lackluster counter-offer last minute but it's too late

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Apr 15, 2023 7:00 PM EDT

Workplace culture might be changing with more woke millennials taking on managerial positions, but there are still completely toxic environments that make you want to quit immediately. For example, when you get a toxic boss who acts like a child and pretends you didn't just hand in your resignation later…

That is exactly what happened recently to one woman who posted about her experience on TikTok. She said she handed her boss her resignation letter and he took one look at it and simply said, "no." She was confused, because the way he said it portrayed no kind of a counter-offer, it just sounded like he was going to ignore the fact that she is quitting. The woman might have been confused, but that did not stop her from doing what she set out to do—especially since she already had a way better job lined up. So she carried on with her last two weeks, made sure all of her managers and coworkers knew that it was her last two weeks, and she would be gone by then. Eventually, in a last ditch effort, the manager gave her an extremely lackluster counter-offer, but this girl had already mentally checked out. She quickly declined and carried on with her two weeks and felt satisfied doing so. Her boss wouldn't even acknowledge her for those last two weeks, but she could care less. 

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    "My resignation did not go as planned.... I left work more confused than I did going in this morning."

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    Font - mamayoda2 MAMAYODA. Okay, so there were lots of people saying,like, "no, girl, he cannot make you stay. You quit. That sounds like your last day!" I want you all to know that I do know that I quit, that I put in my two weeks. I resigned. I told coworkers, I told my manager, I have multiple papers with it, signed and dated. I tried to turn it in. And on my last working day here, I have another job lined up already, so there's that. I can't just walk out, though. I have had a lot of people
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    Font - mamayoda2 MAMAYODA. I'm not miserable where I am. It's just their circumstances are just not right in paying the bills. Life is expensive, and I just am trying to do what's best for my family. So, yeah, I just kind of got to figure out if his counter offer is going to work out for what I want. I got to do a pros and cons, and I just have to decide. I just hate change, and I am the worst decision maker in the whole wide world. I just really did not expect him to say no. I was hoping more o
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    Font - mamayoda2 MAMAYODA. Today [last working day] actually went really well. Okay, so I brought my stuff in. I brought all of my strubs that my boss had paid for. I brought my key to the office and a second resignation letter, signed and dated it and everything, handed it to my manager and said, "sorry, I decided on no, it's [the counter offer] just not going to work out." She told him. He said, “...f**k!” And then ignored me for the rest of today. No conversation, no, "what can I do to keep y
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    Font - mamayoda2 MAMAYODA. A little bit of a backstory of why I'm quitting is I started to get my hours taken away. I was a full time employee with benefits, money for insurance, things like that. And then one day that got taken away and I went back to part time hours of doing three days a week and no benefits. Well, after being put to part- time with no benefits, the part time hours started to go down, which... I mean, we're kind of slow right now, and I do understand that from a business stand
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    Font - mamayoda2 MAMAYODA. New job, on the other hand, [gave me a] $4 raise, full benefits of a full time employee and everything. I'm getting paid like that, but I'm only having to work part time. Also, I have a lot less responsibility of that office and a lot less stress. So not gonna lie, it was kind of a no-brainer, but my heart still hurts. I'm going to miss these girls [coworkers] terribly. You know who you are. I love you!
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