‘You need to fire our boss’: Employee confronts CEO regarding micromanagement after it causes 10 employees to quit their jobs on the spot

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
May 30, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Would the world be a better place if we all simply said what is on our minds without worrying about the repercussions? The truthful answer is that probably not, but we all sure would love to have the opportunity to speak up on matters that we usually stay silent about. For instance, how we truly feel about our employers and the way they treat their employees.

When an employee decides to quit their job, however, they get the rare opportunity to tell their managers how they really feel about them, because they are no longer afraid to lose their job. That is the thought process that went through the mind of the employee who wrote this Reddit story. They decided to leave their company because of the managers' toxic behavior, and OP (original poster), was not the only one who decided to leave. Now OP has the opportunity to tell the CEO the reason why everyone is walking out and he is debating on how to do it.

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    "You need to fire our boss"
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    People are leaving and I know why but how to tell the CEO?
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    This would be long. I worked in IT Company that is big. And by big I mean around $150M turnover. The main office is in my city and as you may guess I was working there. The company literally got me from a GIANT
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    company with turnover $28.8B (yes, billions) for last year so it was a big decission for me to move on but in my new company it was more likely to grow-up faster and to have bigger influence (this is what I really wanted). And the
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    nightmare started there. The main development team from around 50 people was the most toxic THING I have ever seen. It 10x worse that for example school full with bullies, gossips and careless teachers (in this case managers).
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    They literally enjoyed A LOT humiliating new people. Mentors was giving new employees tasks like "go get my personal delivery package from point A and bring it to office" and then telling managers that you are not doing your tasks
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    and you are wasting your time here. Laughing about it, telling awful things about you and whole open-space office listen to. When some other "senior developer" comes to your floor to discuss with
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    somebody tasks they ask you to give them your chair and you stand-up until they finish. Imagine in open-space with 50 people you are the only one stands and
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    waiting for "big devs" to finish their talk. I was trying to look at my screen and pretend I don't see the whole office giggling about it.
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    One of the worst parts (for which 3 of us decided to leave immediately) was that we became very close and the mentors and seniors didn't like that. They somehow knew that outside of
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    working hours we are going out and decided to tell us that it is not appropriate to have friends at work and not good for the team to spend time together ouf of office hours. Tried to make some
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    intrigues and we caught them that they are lying - they were telling to one of us that the other 2 are speaking about him at HR. When we caught that mentors are lying they tried to make it as joke (W ?!).
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    And this is of course not the whole story there are thousands for 7-8 months that I was there. But the problem is that CEO has absolutely no idea why all new people are leaving. When I started we were 9
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    new employees and I was the 8th that leave. Later I saw in LinkedIn that the 9th has also left. Nobody is telling him anything until some days past and he is wondering why people are leaving. I heard him
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    during my time asking managers why person X left and they are saying "he is toxic", "he is not working good", "look at his production time". It absolutely astonishing nobody is revealing to
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    him or maybe somebody did but he would not believe to some new guy. I think he is good guy because he created free academy to gain some people onboard but I still see all the position are still available since I left.
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    P.S.: By chance I met a guy later who has been in same team 3-4 years ago and he told me exactly the same scenario I was into.
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    • 2workigo 20 hr. ago If he can't figure out why all the new employees are leaving, he's not a great CEO.
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    Do PigletUsual6876 OP. 20 hr. ago He rarely speaks to people tbh. He is always busy trying to find clients and negotiating. That's why he does not know because he has no time.
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    Revolution4u. 20 hr. ago . edited 18 hr. ago If you really want to you can contact him however and just tell him but its not like you owe them anything and you already left so who cares. Its hurting the guys own business and new workers.
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    I also wouldn't assume some free training thing makes him a good guy. Places always lie about the motivation but its always really just to increase worker supply which lowers wages.
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    PigletUsual6876 OP. 20 hr. ago I think company has decent clients and good potetial. This team could be the reason for falling and he must know I think.
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    Endangered-Wolf. 18 hr. ago Dear X, As you know, I left your company Y months ago. If you want to do an exit interview and know the reasons of my departure (and likely why others left), feel free to reach out. All the best, Z
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    That way, the ball is on his side. If he wants to listen, fine. If he doesn't, fine. You gave him the chance to know your truth.
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    PigletUsual6876 OP. 18 hr. ago I forgot to mention. They used to have exit interviews but this practice has been stopped due to fact "there has been no valuable feedback from it". This is what HR told me at leaving as I asked.
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    GabagoolMutzadell · 18 hr. ago That should tell you all you need to know. They actively don't want to find out what's wrong so why should you bother telling them?
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    PigletUsual6876 OP 17 hr. ago I think CEO blindly trust the management and they tell him that exit interviews are waste of time. Even if they are performed the information from exit interviews are not presented as it is said. From what I heared during my time he is really interested why people are leaving.
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    Environmental_Row32 19 hr. ago Likely not going to be a lot of fun trying to fix that and quite hard to see an upside for you. Why do you want to try to fix how this person that you don't know does their job? Why would that person trust you, someone who used to work for them and might have hard feeling, over the people they trust right now?
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    If you want to know how to effect change? Find a common point in your social graph and build upon that trust. But my guess would be you share very few social connections that would enable that to the CEO of your ex employer.
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    PigletUsual6876 OP. 19 hr. ago Actually I liked their idea and their product. It is just "product I would do for fun" type. And the idea has huge potential. But it would require a lot of work and I was ready to work for this product and make it better. The sad part that is triggering me the most is
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    that some people will leave their work (like me) and would be too scared to jump-off this job immediately. Especially I am sad when I remember what big expectations I had and how disappointed and stressed I was.
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