'A mass email went out canceling all our annual sales bonuses. 40 salespeople walked that day': 19 Workplace taboos that inspired half the workforce to immediately quit

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  • People who have seen multiple people quit a job in one day, what happened?
  • Amelsander They sidestep a manager that had a 10+ year career in the company, being consistant in nice and well performing to give the son in law of the CEO the job. 4 people quit after the news
  • InertiasCreep ⚫ Worked for a firm that sold financial products. Company had 6K employees and 200 salespeople. I was one of them. We had a great year and sold more product than any prior year. There was a
  • big companywide meeting on a Friday congratulating us. Great, right? Monday at noon a mass email went out canceling all our annual sales bonuses.
  • Forty salespeople walked that day. Forty more were out by the end of the week, so just under 50% of the sales force. This was a well respected company and never had a problem recruiting. As soon as word
  • got out about the canceled bonuses, it killed the firm's reputation.
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  • ca77ywumpus Not quite all in a day, but my last job got a new manager who had NO IDEA how our department actually worked. Between micromanaging (we had to
  • keep detailed time logs of how we spent our workday, down to the minutes we were away from our desk.) and completely impossible productivity "goals" and the fact that she bragged about coming back to work
  • two days after gallbladder surgery as a way to shame us for taking time off, our department went from 8 people to 3 in a matter of months. I walked out after she accused me of faking a broken leg. (The leg had
  • healed by then, but she was still harping about me missing work on New Years Eve because I couldn't drive and the bus didn't run on holidays.) Three others retired earlier than they'd planned.
  • ca77ywumpus New CEO announces that everyone MUST be in-office at least 3 days a week. No exceptions. No thought to the fact that most of the staff had been hired as remote or that they'd downsized the
  • office space accordingly. Next day, his inbox is full of resignation letters. Over half the department quit. It turns out that the liberal WFH policy was the only thing keeping people there.
  • KooshlsKing • University did a study about how much IT staff was supposed to be paid versus what we are actually paid. They found we were all severely underpaid. When we requested raises as a result
  • of that, they were denied. Not everyone quit that day, but that's the day everyone decided to look for jobs and a few months later 80% of the staff was gone.
  • Striving_Hermit ⚫ I walked into a retail store and asked for the manager. The girl at the counter said "I'm the manager." So I gave her my resume and said I was looking for a job.
  • A week later I returned and again asked for the manager. A different girl was there and asked me why I wanted the manager. I told her about what happened the previous week. She looked around the counter and saw my resume,
  • "Oh! Is this you? Well here's the thing, I'm actually the district manager. Everyone, including that manager, just quit so... CONGRATULATIONS! You're hired!"
  • BoxedCub3. They refused to give me a pay raise to match market and the new guy. It was a litmus test and almost the entire team was gone by end of the week. And all but one within a month
  • deezynr Ceo zero'd out the entire companies PTO balance to reduce his cash liability while trying to secretly sell the company. I was told he was told by the legal team that if one more employee left his sale would be jeopardized.

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