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Punished for answering a question from management

My employer has been struggling with staff retention due to poor management, inadequate pay, and several other issues. My department manager quit suddenly and was ushered away without us ever knowing why, but we knew it wasn’t good and they were hiding something. My department just hired a new manager and they are in the process of training, our interim boss (let’s call her Carol) had a department meeting to welcome the new manager. In the meeting Carol asked my team what they would like to see in a manager. My team proceeded to answer the question. Halfway through our answers, Carol is beginning to get very upset. She is obviously crying and ends up storming out of the meeting. My coworker, and new manager looked around the room dumbfounded and stunned. The following day we had a mandatory meeting to discuss Carol’s outburst. Carol’s supervisor attended this meeting. Carol’s…


My employer has been struggling with staff retention due to poor management, inadequate pay, and several other issues. My department manager quit suddenly and was ushered away without us ever knowing why, but we knew it wasn’t good and they were hiding something.

My department just hired a new manager and they are in the process of training, our interim boss (let’s call her Carol) had a department meeting to welcome the new manager. In the meeting Carol asked my team what they would like to see in a manager. My team proceeded to answer the question. Halfway through our answers, Carol is beginning to get very upset. She is obviously crying and ends up storming out of the meeting. My coworker, and new manager looked around the room dumbfounded and stunned.

The following day we had a mandatory meeting to discuss Carol’s outburst. Carol’s supervisor attended this meeting. Carol’s supervisor told us that HR has been notified and the company wanted to give everyone in the department written warnings for all of our files for our behavior, but decided against it.

That meeting was several days ago and I am still processing it. Should I put my notice in now?

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