I work for a nonprofit and I actually really like my manager. I'm not saying that to be a scab – I know I'm very lucky to experience that. Today she let me know she's moving onto another opportunity. Another manager in our department gave notice for extended leave. Apparently it's just a month but still a bit jarring. Then a coworker was fired. I honestly don't know anything about her performance or anything so I can't speak to that, but I did overhear it going down and it's giving me anxiety.
We had a new VP join a few weeks ago (so my boss's boss) and all this happened within this span. I overheard her speaking to the fired coworker. I can't speak to the coworker's performance, but the fact that the new VP continued the conversation outside of her personal office with the person getting fired is what set off alarm bells for me. Like it's one thing to have that conversation in private, it's a whole other thing to escalate it. And to me it felt like she was escalating things.
Now – if I was a new manager who started two weeks ago and had the turnover of two senior level managers and had to fire someone, I'd be a bit overwhelmed. But idk something about it is setting off alarm bells.
I stayed at a job I was unhappy at for over three years and I refuse to do that ever again. if I get the inkling of disarray I'm starting to look for work. But it just sucks how one day you can go from being in a relatively healthy working environment where I honestly didn't dread going to work and I liked my boss, to this. My alarm bells went off (quietly) the moment I found out she has a background with big banks.
Admittedly I'm panicking a bit. Guess I should dust off the resume.