I quit my job and sent out a mass email. It is now being described as the “Sacred Text”

I was told that I should post my email to this subreddit. I have been working for this company for a little over one year and I made my way to a lead position. Nothing fancy, but I had access to everyone's email addresses. All the way up to the president. After the upper management decided to start becoming more and more unreasonable and demanding that my department do way more than we could, I had enough. This email was sent out to everyone from the president, down. They deleted it fairly quickly, but not before one of the leads printed out a ton of copies and even translated it for our Spanish-speaking friends! They were handed out like fliers! I can at least take a bit of joy away from this knowing that, in my wake, I left a bit of morale. I was told that the day I left and the day that followed, the atmosphere was lively and comradery was bolstered.

This is officially my first post, so I hope I don't screw anything up. I've edited the email to exclude any names. Enjoy!

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Hello everyone!

I am writing this email to formally announce my departure from . This is not a decision I make easily. For a long time I enjoyed coming to work and took pride in what I did. That, however, has changed dramatically over the past few weeks. I have seen too much of the spite and uncaring nature of our upper management. A fraternity culture of corporate numbness that shattered whatever morale existed within these walls. Morale… now that is a taboo word in this fledgling warehouse.

Why RAISE morale, when we can just have a high turnover rate and replace experienced and hardworking people with new and unexperienced, expendable, temps? Why would the fearless leadership come and LISTEN to the people who do the job every day when they can just formulate their own opinions as to why something isn’t working correctly? Why would these pioneers of CARE about their employees when they can just become callous and treat them all like second-class citizens or fodder? The answer is simple! Their jobs are secure. They do not have to worry about their contracts being terminated, or being replaced. They have full reign! They don’t care about you. They are the all-knowing, fully confident, self-important, and ultimately dangerous architects of the footprint of in the states!

I am done being exploited. I have been working diligently for over a year, showing up every day, on time, staying late, coming in early, never calling off, and making sure my departments are running efficiently. I was told twice within two weeks that I am not a good worker and that I could be doing more. Well, someone else can do that now. I will no longer be the workhorse for this company. I refuse to work directly for a convicted pedophile, and a child in personality and age . I refuse to work hard and be told that I am failing in my department by asking for an additional admin, while people who don’t work at all are supported and described as great workers.

Make sure you save this email, or take a picture of it. They will surely erase this, just like they erased the pictures I had on my work phone of the wooden crates that were soaked and covered in black mold.

I liked working here. I love my team. I love a lot of the people who work here. But the management is the worst I have ever seen. They promote the people who least deserve it, hire people who are wildly unqualified for their positions, and abuse and take full advantage of the people who actually work hard. They don’t want good and caring leadership. They want slave drivers and boot-lickers.

The pay is objectively terrible for what they expect of you. And they will try to short-change you every chance they get. I have never felt so disrespected by leadership in my life, and I was in the army.

To all the leads, I wish you the best of luck and I will miss you all.

To the management, treat your employees better. They are the ones who make the company run, not you. They are the ones sweating and working hard so that you can look good to your bosses. Show them more respect. Showing empathy and kindness is not a sign of weakness. You put your pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us. Humble yourselves.

On that note, I’m out. Good Luck.