Boss' tone-deaf rant after employees quit for a better opportunity sparks debate on toxic workplaces

Employees quit for many reasons, each with unique motivations, but their departures often pressure companies to quickly find replacements. Sometimes, though, bosses don’t take the news well. In one such example, a boss shared a heated email ranting about three employees quitting simultaneously. The email, posted by Quit By Text (@quitbytext) on Threads, sparked widespread discussion in the comments.

"Nothing says you have to give notice. He must not understand that," the caption of the post read. In the email, the boss began, "Hello all, Happy Wednesday. I am not happy at all this morning. Yesterday, three of you submitted your two weeks' notice; all three said it was because of a 'better opportunity,' not even thinking about the fact that some of your coworkers have lives outside of the office and CHILDREN." He questioned, "Your better opportunities (doubtful, we pay you all fair wages) are worth affecting your colleagues' quality of life?" The man added, "I myself have children and instead of being at their band recital this week, I will have to be sitting at work posting jobs on Indeed."

The boss further expressed, "This is outrageous. You all need to speak among yourselves and plan these things out so you don't leave the company high and dry all at once. The lack of consideration from employees I previously had a different impression of is astounding. The new rule in our employee handbook will be updated to now requiring three months' notice since that's how long it took to train you." The man went on, "You will give three months' notice and train your replacement in the meantime and your three months' notice will act as consent for your base pay to be lowered by $6 per hour. Since you are leaving, your reduction in pay must not be an issue at all. 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 of overtime per week you will be assigned until I find new hires and they are fully trained," the post concluded. People shared their views and stories about the issue. @call210 wrote, "I gave a month's notice to my boss in Florida and she told me I couldn't leave until they found my replacement. She was then out for two weeks. I had to go to my GM to tell him I'm leaving on the day I said, and he agreed."

@oldhabetrot commented, "At my previous job, a policy change not only made our delivery team's jobs harder and less safe but threatened their job security. Management did not tell anyone of the new policy until someone violated it and was written up, so after that, they all quietly lined up other opportunities and then quit all at once, without notice." @beth_goodroe remarked, "People don't quit jobs. They quit bosses. This man doesn't see he is the problem. I quit my last job with a week and a half notice; they told me I could just make that my last day- so I did. They aren't going to back you; you don't have to back them."