Background…..5 months ago I left a decent paying IT job with a pretty decent company (hybrid, 2 days in office, 3 days WFH) for a higher paying job (over 40% higher) with a bigger company that is completely WFH minus a few trips to home office. I loved my coworkers, my boss I could take or leave. Not a bad guy really, but just didn't mesh well (he was a manager, not a leader, and those in this community know the difference).
Since I've left my former company, I learned another on my team (we were a team of 4) has since left…leaving only 2.
I talk to my 2 remaining former coworkers semi-regularly because we were/are actually friends. They haven't replaced me or the other guy that left, and they may not until late 2023 if at all. I hate that my friends and former colleagues are in this position because I and the other guy left. Even though I know it's an executive level decision, that they should have prepared for this kind of eventuality and I should have no regrets, I kinda do because of what my friends are experiencing now. Way behind on customer tickets, IT projects are likely at a standstill, etc.
I look around for relevant job postings for my two coworkers that are still there, but I still feel like I have almost a buyer's remorse for “abandoning” them. They understood me leaving and don't begrudge me doing so (other than in good humored joking).
Just needed to get that off my chest before I go to bed. Thanks for letting an internet stranger vent