I had a manager who berated everyone and drove out almost all. He promoted one guy to supervisor who on his first day said who he would fire in that dept or this dept. He mention most everyone but us but you know he meant us too.
We had new management and the 4 managers above our manager were let go and replaced with people from India... <-
Our manager thought he would be promoted but some lady from India got the job.
That manager knew he was not going to be promoted so he quit : )
The supervisor left 2.5 weeks later and gave no notice to his new boss.
I witness this a lot more frequently starting about 5 years ago, especially if they bring in an outsider. Once someone knows they're not the next candidate, why stick around?
The supervisor left 2.5 weeks later and gave no notice to his new boss.
I've seen no-notice quitting very rarely but I now witness paired departures where one tells the other, "If you go, I go, because there's no way I'm getting all this dumped on me after you're gone." It's not just boss-underling departures but also peer-to-peer pairings. The trigger event is often an internal move, not just retirements or employees quitting for other jobs. Coworkers confide in me that they suspect they didn't get hired for an internal position not because they were too valuable to lose, but because their boss knew if they moved, their coworker would leave right behind them. The bosses are gambling when trapping someone in a position like that and I think as they do it to more and more staff the balancing act collapses all at once.
I blame the paired departures on the short-staffing that's been the norm since the Depression of 2008. It's bad enough to be doing 3 jobs but doing 6 just isn't going to happen.