Ah, the Great Resignation, a movement that makes companies watch their employees walk away from their jobs like there’s no tomorrow. It inspired a sharp rise in the resignation letter scenarios, leaving employers with nothing but confusion and accusatory comments about how nobody wants to work anymore. But the truth is, people do want to work. Just not for bosses who are controlling, belittling, and abusing their power every chance they get.

Unfortunately, user notsatans’ supervisor seems to be one of them. A week ago, the worker shared a screenshot to the Anti Work subreddit of an unhinged email the staff received after three employees handed in their notice on the same day. The manager’s rant not only implied the quitters had zero consideration for their coworkers’ families and lives but he also informed them about the “new terms” of resigning.

However, if there’s one thing we know about unreasonable management rules, they often backfire in the best possible way. Scroll down to read the whole email and the user’s update on the situation, and be sure to share your thoughts about it in the comments below!

Recently, a woman posted a screenshot on the Anti Work subreddit of her manager’s furious and irrational email after he found out three employees had quit on the same day

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Image credits: notsatans

After reading the email, it may be hard to believe that some bosses can act so out of touch. But unfortunately, such behavior from management is nothing new. We’ve well aware of the petty and entitled bosses who think they can treat their workers as pawns in their little games, and there’s only so much an employee can take before deciding to firmly hand in their resignation letter.

Interestingly, we might be hearing a lot more stories like this one. According to recent research, almost half of employed Americans are considering walking away from their current jobs. These results come from the 2022 Workplace Belonging Survey that was commissioned by Ipsos on behalf of researcher, speaker, and expert on psychological capital Dr. Rumeet Billan. It found that those who are thinking about making the switch lack a sense of belonging at work, which is usually associated with being treated fairly and respectfully.

“We have recently undergone life-altering challenges as a population, exposing the need for workplace cultures to be transformed,” Dr. Billan told PR Newswire. “More than 19 million American workers have quit their jobs since April 2021, disrupting businesses everywhere. Companies cannot afford to continue going through this type of employee turnover. It is important that we take the time to learn why this is happening and our recent findings suggest that workers place a high value on the very human and relational aspects of work.”

When people are sick and tired of feeling undervalued by their employer, they choose to take action. And today, multiple resignations are hardly surprising. After Covid shook up the world, workers in the United States decided they had enough of the inhumane working conditions, tyrant bosses, low pay, and lack of opportunities for improvement. The Great Resignation made employers watch people leaving the workforce en masse, and the situation is far from being resolved.

Around 4.4 million American workers walked away from their jobs in February, just a tad higher than in January. Businesses had a tough time finding workers for all the empty roles since there were 11.3 million job openings to fill, but only 6.7 million people were hired that month.

Here are some of the reactions people had after reading the email

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Bored Panda previously reached out to Dr. Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at May Business School at Texas A&M University and organizational psychologist who coined the term “The Great Resignation”. “Most of the time, when you’re an employee and you work for a company — the company has all the power. As soon as you decide to quit, the power balance shifts,” he told us.

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“The resignation period is the last chance to get even with your company. If your company’s treated you well, that’s your last chance to pay them back,” Klotz said and added that the same principle applies if things went the other way around. Moreover, if your supervisor’s behavior suddenly changed after you handed in the two weeks’ notice, the professor compares it to the feeling of being dumped. “How do people usually respond when somebody breaks up with them? We get upset and say, ‘Fine, get lost.’ In the same way, emotions can get the best of supervisors as well,” he told us.

The good news is that Klotz believes the last few decades showed a change in a more positive direction. “It used to be that it was always a betrayal. Now, if an employee is resigning, more and more organizations say, ‘Let’s send them on their way, wish them good luck and continue to keep in touch with them so that we can bring them back as a ‘boomerang employee’ at some point in the future.'”

“When I do hear about managers handling it poorly, I understand the psychology of why it happens. Not only you’ve made the manager’s job more difficult because they have to manage the remaining employees who now have a larger workload. They also might start thinking, ‘Why did she leave? Maybe we should follow them?'”

However, this does not seem to apply to this particular case. The user who shared the screenshots to Anti Work is not planning on leaving the company just yet, but she was already making arrangements to remove herself from the team, leaving her supervisor with another spot to fill. But it seems that won’t be necessary since she also revealed he was forced to leave the company after the story broke out.

Later on, the user made another post with an update on this whole situation

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