Manager's insane email about employee who quit her job due to bad company culture proves her right

Leaving your job on a good note and moving towards better opportunities is a practice that points towards a healthy career trajectory. However, in some scenarios, managers, higher-ups or even the employees themselves might make that transition harder. This is something that happened to a woman namdc Kelly, who goes by u/friends-waffles-work on Reddit, when she came across an email sent by her former manager after quitring the job due to bad company culture. The email was full of slander for the employee, who took to Reddit to share it.

Kelly wrote, "I accepted a full-time job at this small business, but a few red flags started cropping up (I'm in the UK for some context)." She further added, "The company culture was really bad and most of the team had worked there a very long time and were very hostile towards new joiners (lots of snarky emails and 50 to 60 years old men gossiping behind your back)." The woman also pointed out that the company director was quite rude and condescending towards her every time she spoke to him, even though she kept trying to be nice. "One of the things I found so strange was that they refuse to give you a contract. Ever. I asked about this further and they said, 'Your offer can be considered your contract, I guess,'" she mentioned.

Kelly noted how people working at the company for 20+ years had no contracts either. "So yeah, I worked with them for 6 weeks before handing my notice in and this was sent out to the office," the woman wrote with a photo of the email sent out to all the employees once she quit. It read, "Kelly has left us with immediate effect. She has been continuing her search for work ever since joining us." The person revealed they knew this because someone mentioned seeing Kelly's CV with a person called "Ian" at a pub. "Presumably, she wanted a job in the city, which she presumably now has," the email continued. "She lacked the courtesy of giving notice and left with immediate effect, but there you go, some people are like that."

The woman explained, "I don't know who the f Ian is and I don't have any job interviews/offers 'in the city' (nor do I want to work there!)." She admitted, "I actually left to be unemployed while I started looking for a new job because the place was that bad…" The manager had also been viewing Kelly's LinkedIn profile every day for more than 2 weeks. The woman did find support from users in the comments.

u/forameus2 wrote, "The blanket advice in pretty much every case would be never to burn a bridge as you leave, as it's rarely worth it, and you never know who you might end up bumping into in future. This though? Nah. Burn it." The woman replied, "I was really nice in my notice letter as well. I kept it all 'thank you for the opportunity!' etc." u/kingjulian6284 suggested, "I would block that manager. Because no doubt, they're checking to see what your new job is and I wouldn't put it past them to reach out and try to tarnish your reputation there."

u/Fap_Left_Surf_Right shared, "I gave 2 weeks notice once and the next day, I could hear my manager bitching about me to her colleagues in her office. It was completely unprofessional. I knocked on her door mid-rant, opened it and told her, 'It's your lucky day. My resignation is now immediate and you don't have to be upset anymore.'"