“We All Quit In Solidarity”: 61 People Reveal What Led To Mass Resignations At Work

A new company bought the place I was working and the first thing they did was fire the manager, and replace her with the CEO of the new company, who knew absolutely nothing about anything at all, and she hired a bunch of her family members to come work there planning to fire most of us but more than half quit so she didn't have to do that, since then the place went really downhill.

Our company was purchased by a rival company and our salesmen were told they would be moving from a commission-based pay model to an hourly rate. We had, I think, 6 salesmen at the time and they all left on the spot.

During the last verizon strike, lots of employees were not prepared financially to go without a income until union benefits kicked in. it was reported to my dad's supervisor that their garage and three other nearby garages had over 300 employees just flat out quit and look for work elsewhere.

New manager gave everyone the option of working for the next 6 months for 1/3rd of our current pay **AND** training our replacements, or quitting and taking a small severance. Almost everyone took the severance. The ones who stayed on were pulling their hair out within a few weeks because the new hires didn't understand English well enough to communicate and couldn't code at all (they would drag and drop things from YouTube tutorials or Github directly into the clients project, line for line, with zero regard as to how/if it would/could even work).

Anytime they would go over concepts with the new hires or help them learn, the new hires would smile, nod and go "Ohhh, ahhh so that's how it works, huh?" and then be right back onto YouTube and Github looking for lines to copy and paste.

Somehow the company is still being given **HUGE** amounts of funding and contracts by the government despite hemorrhaging cash and reputation.

The new manager effect... usually it's the older workers who already tiring of the company's BS only stayed because of some favorable arrangement with the previous manager which of course gets instantly wiped out by the new guy and that's all the incentive they need to GTHO...

My personal record is seeing four waitresses quit in one day.. I don't how they knew but they must have sensed the new incoming manager was a jerk which I unfortunately learnt the hard way...

I was a supervisor for a seasonal warehouse job, most of the seasonal employees were students. Every year on the first day there would be a few people who walked out because they realized how miserable the job was.

Company I used to work for had a huge warehouse on an industrial estate. A nationally known retail company opened a new warehouse next door and basically poached all the staff overnight by offering a few £ an hour more. In the space of a few days almost the entire staff moved to the other site.

In 2016-17 I worked at a meat processing plant as an overnight jumpsuit launderer & floor cleaner. The overnight meat packing crew had 2 managers: one had been with the (family owned) company for over 25 years while the other had worked there just a few years. Senior manager was great, kept things flowing smoothly. Junior manager… not so much.

Well junior manager makes a pretty big mistake regarding some food safety/lab testing protocol they had in place. I’m not sure of the full details, I only know what some friends of mine told me who worked in that department.

It was caught thankfully before morning shift arrived, but the whole packing process came to a halt while they figured out next steps which put things extremely far behind & also caused me to have to work a 13 hour shift because I couldn’t leave until all of the cleaning was finished & I couldn’t clean the area while they were dealing with things.

Anyway… Senior manager had been out that week, taking PTO for a minor eye surgery he had to have. When he returned he was let go (junior manager had already been fired at this point) because of the seriousness of this mistake even though he wasn’t there. Something about it being his responsibility to make sure that everyone under him knows and follows the proper procedures.

Well the night packing crew 100% rallies behind this manager & when they came in and heard the news they all walk off the floor, clock out, and leave. They didn’t have a single person that stayed (this was a crew of 30+ people)

The next day, magically, senior manager has his job back. I walked out mid shift a couple weeks later for an unrelated reason. It was a horrible company to work for lol and I only made $10.50 an hour. The only real “perk” was that I got to take home free hams that had been sliced open to be lab tested.

A local café with a back bar was taken over with new owners. The bar was known for its heavy pours and had a cult following with the older/tame crowd(we have a couple local bars that are more trendy for the younger crowd). New owners wanted to change the cafe into a higher end restaurant as a result the bar on the back end started pouring every mixed drink a LOT lighter than what brought what little crowd they could muster.

3 bartenders quit day two. I haven't bothered to even check the spot out. They even got rid of my $12.99 10oz steak special on Sunday so I haven't been back. I used to hit that religiously for a couple years. What a heart break.

I used to work at a very toxic public service provider. 

Morale was about as low is it could possibly get - to the point where management hired a group of part-time staff to alleviate the work burden on the existing staff (they had been operating about 10 people under what aid consider minimum for a long time). 

They announced the hiring of 5 ot staff. They introduced them, took them around. 3 quit within a week. One made it 2. The last one resigned at the urging of the union president who told her to save her career and not work there. All 5 gone within a month and they just didn’t replace them. 

My favourite was probably the staff who noped out at lunch during the on-boarding day. Just didn’t come back. 

I’m out. So happy to no longer be there.

I did a stint as a receptionist at a staffing agency, our main client was the local waste management company who were constantly needing pickers (the guy who hangs off the back of the garbage truck and throws trash in, no driving). People always thought they could handle 12 hours of throwing heavy garbage in the summer heat until they actually got out there. We had people quit mere hours in, multiple at a time, regularly. We would warn them that the job was intensely physical and difficult and people would still come in, filled with bravado and confidence, and leave with their tails tucked. It was a tough role to fill.

Manager came back from a month long training out of state.

It was at OfficeMax. 4 people were hired a couple of weeks before he left for training, and 5 people quit the weekend before he returned. Some didn't even give notice. They just called and told the assistant manager, that we all adored, that they wouldn't be back.

I tried to quit on the spot one day because the manager was criticizing me for something that wasn't my fault. The assistant manager talked to me and said take the rest of the day off, but don't quit. I stayed but only because I was moved from cashier to the print dept. The print dept customers loved me so the manager couldn't be as hard on me anymore. Luckily he was laid off not long after.

I used to do the private events for a restaurant in Philadelphia. The General Manager was fired for something that 100% wasn’t her fault, and nearly the entire service staff and four of the cooks quit as soon as they found out the news.

I was one of 4 managers reporting to a VP earlier in my career. She called us into a meeting and let us know corporate wanted territories redrawn and that she wasn't told which one of us, but she was going to have to go down a head count. She also mentioned we had some other positions opening up in a different part of the company at similar to higher pay grades, and if one of the 4 managers wanted to apply, she'd champion them.

I applied to one of these internal positions, got it and have been in that part of our business for a decade now. Best move I ever made.

The other 3 managers all panicked, applied elsewhere and on the day I started my new role, 2 of the 3 came in and resigned. The 3rd did so the next day...

I always felt bad for the VP as she was doing the right thing by her team in communicating and it burned her.

I was working at a grocery store over the summer as a department supervisor, when I got a resignation text from one of my favorite employees, and then a second employee came to me to quit in person not even an hour later. My own manager was being a jerk that day anyways, and it being near the end of my shift, I quietly packed up my stuff, soent the remaining time drafting my own resignation letter, printed a copy to hang on my locker, and then hit SEND and walked out for my *surprise* last shift.

We were all given a 10¢ raise to comply with the law.

I am a teacher, but something similar happened at my school many years ago. A VP came to a staff meeting and lit into the entire teaching staff because one teacher (who was not even there at the meeting) went over his head to complain about a student issue to the superintendent. Of course, none of us knew the context of his anger in that moment, and we were never told until much later. So we were all just sitting there, wondering what the hell was happening, and hoping that we weren’t the one who pissed him off. Some teachers even plugged their ears because the yelling was so loud. Over the summer, seven teachers quit and found jobs elsewhere. We were a small school, so that was about 15 - 20% of our teaching staff at the time. He only stayed with the school one more year after that and then he was pushed out.

Embezzlement of company funds. Many were involved.

Not me, but my roommate's partner was the manager of a department at a huge engineering firm. I can't remember the circumstances, but the employer made a radical policy shift in something that effectively super-deminished her department and basically made it obvious that they were going to phase out that entire service.

It wasn't her fault, but upper management had effectivley siloed them so there was no chance of moving to a different department and they all went from "valued contributor" to "who cares? they're drones? we don't need them anyway" with one quick policy change.

The entire team, regionally, resigned en masse all at a specific time one day — effective immediately.

The sucky thing was they never warned my roommate's ex and she really advocated for them and acted as their champion, fighting tooth and nail on their behalf.

They kept her on salary for another year before giving her a very generous severance package. They couldn't keep her as a manager of no one, but they also couldn't rebuild a department that they were clearly going to phase out over the next 5-10 years.

Asst Director loved to yell at people about everything. and it was usually over something very small and very fixable. Me and the other manager quit on the same day about 3 months into the job.