Not very exciting story, but it felt empowering. I'm a manager of a small healthcare team and have done so for about 7 years. Senior management were making changes that will increase workloads with same expected delivery time – while looking to downsize the team. I fought tooth and nail for my team and was eventually told “I don't care, like it or lump it”
I chose “lump it” and informed him as such when I handed in my notice.
- Me: here's my notice.
- Boss: what? Why?
- Me: you told me too.
- Boss: visible confusion
- Me: remember when you said like it or lump it? I choose lump it.
- Boss: uhh, I didn't mean it like that. Can we talk about it?
And it just went from there. I kept saying nothing to discuss but that I'm keen to do an exit interview in six weeks when I leave. He's spent all morning running around, trying to get job ads out.
As a side note, my current employer has been ripped to shreds on Indeed reviews. But they keep creating job ads under company names with slight variations “&” instead of “and” etc. There on their third integration due to overwhelmingly bad reviews.