In my previous position there was no way the owners/directors couldn't know how low staff moral was if they were paying attention. It was a hospice and professional as well as support staff were resigning in droves. Again, no way upper management couldn't see what the numbers were telling them. When I had finally secured a position with an agency that knew my worth and who had a reputation in the community for treating people well, I presented my resignation to my clinical manager and executive director simultaneously. They both stared at me, mouths open like fish out of water and sputtered, “Well, this is just great!! Just Great!!!” “How could you do this to us??” “Where are you going??” Why are you leaving??” “You have to tell us!!!” “We demand to know!!!” “You can't do this!!!!!” I offered to leave then and there rather than work out my 3 week's notice as I felt not only unsafe in that small room with their anger and vitriol but also disgusted by their antics. They declined and the irony of ironies was my clinical manager, who obviously hadn't bothered to read my resignation letter, emailed me a week before my last day, clearly not having a clue I had one more week, reminding me to turn in my phone and lap top by the end of the day. No “good bye, good luck, it was good working with you…” Not wanting to burn bridges I demurred from telling them the truth: That patient care was in the toilet, that they had created a hostile work environment; that they were authoritarian and micromanagers and that they were too stupid to realize how they chose to manage people was destructive rather than instructive…. And that I was a way better clinician than they deserved and sick of their shit. So any business owners/upper managers reading this: If you stop and listen,…. I mean REALLY LISTEN… to what people write in their resignation letters, tell HR at their exit interviews, how their demeanor appears to you when they are at work, how often they call out or complain about their jobs. And if you also REALLY LISTEN to what people don't say like, “I have friend who I told about how great this place is to work and they will be sending in their resume.” Or, “Sure I'll take that extra shift, you guys have been so great to me, it's the least I can do.”….this type of brain drain might stop. Of course, if you are a lousy employer, paying crap wages and don't give a fig about your employees well-being then I guess you deserve what you get!