Overworked employees simultaneously quit their jobs after their boss leaves, CFO attempts to convince them to stay, but they refuse: ‘Not feeling remotely guilty’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 14, 2025 10:00 AM EST

'If everyone jumped out of a bridge, would you too?' is a question we've all heard before, with different connotations to life. It's mostly used when parents pose this situation for their kids after they do reckless things with their friends, to which many kids love to respond – 'Well if everyone jumped, there's probably a good reason'.

The thing is, if everyone you know jumped out of a bridge, there probably is a good reason they did so, and you should seriously consider doing so as well. For example, if all your coworkers decide to leave your workplace, maybe that place is not worth sticking around for. Not to mention, if everyone leaves, all the work will eventually fall on you, and you already know you will not be compensated for that. You will simply be expected to pick up and clean all the mess that was left behind.

Sometimes jumping ship is simply necessary, which is exactly what happened to the employee in the story down below, who was the last to leave their company after everyone else.

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  • "Put in my notice (as the last person in my department)"

    I posted a few weeks ago about my amazing boss leaving my company and being replaced with a contract consultant. Since then, my teammate and I have kept each other up to
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  • speed on job hunting, and we even provided references for each other. She and I have both since found other jobs; her last day was last Friday, and mine is this Friday.
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  • I also have a bunch of PTO saved up, so after putting in my notice, I immediately submitted all of my PTO, effectively cutting my actual work time down to a third
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  • (I'm off every day this week except Friday, when I'm just showing up to the office to turn in my stuff). Because I'm the last person left in my department, the
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  • CFO met with me and offered to increase my salary to get me to stay. I declined for a few reasons: 1. There's no way they'd pay me what it would cost to keep me in a department by myself.
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  • 2. Even if they somehow met a counteroffer from me, that would essentially prove that they could have paid me a higher amount this entire time.
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  • 3. Even if I did take a higher salary and stayed, they'd just immediately start looking for someone who'd do my job for less than I make now.
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  • As it is, there's no one left at this company who knows how to do my job, and because it absolutely has to get done, they're going to have to pay more for a set of contractors to figure it out. Not my circus; not my monkeys.
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  • TL;DR: Quit my job, there's no one else who knows how to do it, not feeling remotely guilty about it. EDIT: Added in missing parenthesis.
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  • It's important to recognize when a workplace or a job may be a lost cause. It seems like the employees here knew exactly why they should not stay on board this sinking ship.

    Hopefully, we could all learn a thing or two from the way they handled this resignation. 

  • anonymous_opinions I got hired for a role that had been essentially abandoned this way. No one knew what she did and she was basically the lead and main person in the role. I can still remember when someone in the office
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  • said there was a step by step book she left in her desk and then their expression when the drawers were all empty. It wasn't my first "everyone left" sh show but it was the first time I ended up burned as a new hire by this kind of stuff
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  • which s ked for me. They will bring in some poor green horn and then sh on them. Usually when there's no one left in the department and no training you're in a toxic as f situation.
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  • Bob VilasBeard OP I was on the other side of this once too, and it definitely s ks. The main reason I don't feel particularly guilty is that the consultant who came in made the decision that our department should change.
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  • priorities, so even if I'd stayed, the actual scope of my job would be hazy at best. I don't know what they expected to do with our old responsibilities (because they still have to get done from a legal standpoint), but that's on the consultant to figure out.
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  • shrek-09 They would offer you a pay rise to stay then expect you to carry the entire department by yourself
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  • Bob VilasBeard OP Oh totally. Absolutely not worth it.
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  • Select-Flow3180 Congrats! I just did this a few weeks ago. Pretty much exactly as you described, except I was the only one. They asked if they could call me as a consultant and I said sure, and
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  • gave them a rate triple what they were paying me. We'll see if they call in the next two months as it starts to ramp up.
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  • Bob Vilas Beard OP That's fantastic! I hope they come back to you and match. your offer.
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  • lisugmo Spent the past two years asking for another team member and just got another job offer this week. Can't wait to put in my two weeks and watch them suffer because they don't have a backup. Congrats on moving on!
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  • Netflxnschill I hope you told them exactly why you declined.
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