New boss ruins everything, derails a high-functioning team, leading to key employee's departure: 'For a 0% raise I'm giving 0% effort'

Working with a team that you really enjoy being a part of is one of the smallest graces you can hope for in what's otherwise deep, begrudging resignation to your working life. Unfortunately, like most of the good things in life, the balance is delicately struck, and one small change can turn them on their heads.

After spending almost seven years at this tech company working with a true leader of a manager who always stood up for his workers and encouraged autonomy and a healthy work-life balance, the nightmare that everyone who loves their jobs has became a reality… A change in senior leadership resulted in the boss facing off with a new VP who had unrealistic ideals about the team's performance goals, and the VP proceeded to make the boss's role challenging at every step. After dealing with this for longer than he could handle, the boss departed his role, and a newly appointed manager took his place, quickly introducing new policies that turned a once great working life on its head. A steep decline in the team's morale led to this worker's strategic departure, which caused a cascade of chaos.

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