One should never give an exit interview, particularly if their employer has demonstrated a complete inability to listen to advice or honest feedback—and especially if they've shown a willingness to retaliate against someone giving that feedback. Even if you complete an exit interview and provide feedback with the best of intentions, you may just be burning a bridge you had no intention of burning once they've had some time to think about it.
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Really, if anyone ever asks you for honest feedback at the end of a relationship you'd do best to do so in a careful and measured way. Even if they seemingly take it well at first it's more than likely that a little rumenation on your words will cause them to fester and rot into hatred and resentment.
This employee provided honest feedback to their employee during an exit interview, only to find that the HR manager they had given the interview to had printed and handed their feedback to their toxic boss who, in turn, took to parading it around the office in outrage, practically daring the remaining employees to speak up on it—proclaiming their silent complicity as shaky proof that the exiting employee was wrong. Just standard behavior of a toxic manager.
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