'You don't leave a company high and dry all at once?!': Boss enforces three months notice after mass quitting, causes more backlash

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jun 14, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Talk about a way to turn your few remaining loyal employees against you! 

This boss decided that the best way to respond to a mass quitting was to send a hostile message to the remaining folks on her team enforcing new strict policies. Those policies were that if anyone decided to leave, they needed to put in three months' notice before doing so. First of all, this boss must be foolish because she simply cannot enforce that when it comes to at-will employment. Second of all, what she should be doing after this first wave of mass quitting is to do everything in her power to prevent another one. That does not mean enforcing strict bogus policies that will only cause more backlash. That means doing some genuine self-reflection, deciphering why so many people quit at once, and changing policies to better reflect the employees' experience.

Keep scrolling below for the full email from this horrible boss and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, take a look at this post about an employee who confronted their supervisor about work parties.

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  • 01
    This is outrageous. Got this from a Facebook group. They didn't mention the company name for their own job security and safety.
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  • 02
    <All Inboxes URGENT - 78292495 Hello all, Happy Wednesday. I'm not so happy this morning. Yesterday 3 of you submitted your two weeks notice, all 3 of you claimed it was because of a "better opportunity" not even thinking about the fact that some of your coworkers have lives outside of this job and CHILDREN. Your "better opportunities" (doubtful. we pay you all fair wages) are really worth affecting your team members' quality of life? I myself have children and instead of being at their band rec
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  • 03
    The new rule in our employee handbook will be updated to now requiring a 3 months notice since that's how long it took to train you. You will give 3 months notice and train your replacement in the mean time, and your 3 months notice will serve as your consent for your base pay to be lowered by $6/ hour. Since you will be leaving your reduction in pay should be no issue. That's how this works from now on. You can thank your insubordinates for this. You can also thank them for the extra 30 hours o
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  • 04
    Onah_VayKay 4 hr. ago People can quit anytime they want.
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  • 05
    tehjoz 3 hr. ago Reply-All; "The nature of At-Will Employment means employees are free to terminate employment for any, or no reason, and at any time, with or without notice to the Employer. Best Regards, Me"
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  • 06
    gambling 4 hr. ago Can't imagine why employees would ever want to leave such a company. Not sure why businesses think they're entitled to full operation with reduced labour. That assigned overtime can get totally
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  • 07
    Mehhucklebear . 4 hr. ago Even if this is legal, which it would not surprise me if it is, this boss is still an idiot. This will not solve their problem. All this is doing is forcing people to leave with zero notice. And, from my understanding, you can't lower pay for work already performed, so you can not cut $6 off an hour for that paycheck.
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  • 08
    Plus, when a potential new hire gets this, you think they will be sticking around? Or, how about the current employees? You think they are ALL not updating their resumes the moment they close that email!? Such a dumb, dumb move
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  • 09
    Big_ShinySonofBeer ⚫ 4 hr. ago That just lowered the bar for better opportunities by a lot.
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  • 10
    OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT 4 hr. ago love the fact that they say employees need to talk amongst themselves and apparently plan their quitting schedules
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    heresmytwopence 4 hr. ago Great way to ensure that people give zero notice going forward. Brilliant!
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  • 12
    - 2BrkOnThru 4 hr. ago It just makes sense that I would refuse a "better opportunity" just so I can work under this clown hoping they will stay on their meds and stop doing crazy like going to Facebook each time a group of us have had enough.
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  • 13
    DukeManbert 3 hr. ago This is actually hilarious. These are the things that need to happen to bring down holes like that one. There is a meltdown coming and this complete dork is doing everything to help it happen sooner. Watching your enemy actively working towards his own demise is hilarious.
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  • 14
    infamousmmax · 4 hr. ago Whoever is still there should coordinate a mass walk off. Just quietly do the bare minimum while finding new and better jobs. Don't give 2 weeks or 3 months. Just randomly leave as a collective force.
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  • 15
    LetsGoBubba6141 4 hr. ago . Instead of looking inwards..... blame outwards. I can't imagine their new policy doesn't make others leave then. Also.... Parental rights/parental responsibility .... It's amazing how I bet some people will cite that your advice about raising someone else's kids is none of your business yet, you should have been thinking of their kids.
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