Why make all that scene if the employee is going to leave anyway? Just accept the notice and move on!
Toxic workplaces are not something you can recognize from afar. When you notice it is toxic, you are already working there and just looking forward to getting another job and leaving. So when you do, you find another place that values you more, that seeks benefits for hard workers, and in which your career can grow. You don’t just leave. You run away. Is finding what you were looking for all along. There is no step in between. You just leave everything and leave. So, in this Reddit story, this employee decided to leave a 10-days notice. I was impressed. That is not really common to do when the company you work at mistreated you as they did to her. But I admire the fact that they wanted to end things correctly and professionally.
What I did not value is the attitude of the boss, a manager who had no reason to scream and demand anything from the worker. You, as an employee, don’t really have the obligation to notify a company 2 weeks prior that you are leaving. But if you do is always better. But, as it’s not an obligation, if you do notify them, they have no right to tell you that it should have been more days of notice or anything. You are not a slave. You have a job that you can leave whenever you want, especially if the company is mistreating you.
In this case, this employee was unhappy with their job and found a new opportunity that was actually in their field. What reason did they have to stay? Stop working in retail to work in something that you’re passionate about, that doesn’t seem crazy, just as a wise decision. How can a company that is doing nothing for this employee compete? It can’t. They just have to accept the fact that the employee didn’t just leave to somewhere where they probably can leave without having to go through a dramatic scene.
