‘My boss cut 40% of my pay; I quit’: Employee quits after getting 40% pay cut, employee's resignation ends up costing company hundreds of thousands of dollars due to canceled projects

Eleonora Bader

Jul 6, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Companies seem to be allergic to retention, instead opting to micromanage, cut employees' salaries, and demand they work two jobs for the same pay. The list goes on; the lesson stays the same, but they never learn. In this case, OP was working in a toxic work environment, where he were forced to take a 40% pay cut because the company replaced his whole department with contractors. His boss also dangled a certification for 6 months with training in front of him, causing much anxiety on OP's part. Finally, OP had had enough and knew that it was time to go.

OP called his boss on the morning of his shift and told him that he was quitting. Flabbergasted, OP's boss thought he was joking, but soon came to learn that he was not. After quitting, OP ran into a former coworker, who informed him that OP's quitting had led to a lot of financial loss on the company's part. They had booked several months of projects that OP was supposed to be attending to, but since OP quit, there was nobody to do the projects. Furthermore, they couldn't find anybody to replace OP because they refused to hire people at a higher rate than their competitors.

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