'Boss said if I quit now... it's going to ruin my future': Employee fights back after entitled boss won't let him put in 2-week notice

Isabella Penn

Mar 6, 2024 7:00 AM EST

It's always hard to quit a job, but it feels worse to drop a job that you've been looking forward to starting because you have to give up one. No one prepares you for the whole process of putting in your two weeks with your current employer. After the awkward conversation, you then have to work 14 uncomfortable days with your coworkers who already know you're leaving to work somewhere else. But it's really not that personal. Your role can easily be replaced. Sometimes you have to leave your current job in order to grow both personally and professionally.

It even gets trickier if after you have done so, your boss is not going to accept the resignation just like this employee. To make matters even worse, the boss threatened this employee for attempting to quit, saying that it's going to ruin his future if he leaves now. Finding himself in this tough spot, the employed turned to the internet as source of advice and support. Read the whole story below.