Last July I was working at a tech company and things were going…not well.
Management was going from bad to worse and every (very minor) perk of the job was being taken away from me. No longer WFH, bonus structure changed to something completely unattainable, and my longtime salary position was being changed to an hourly position. We were told this shift would happen in October.
Well one crappy July morning, my team was pulled into a meeting with HR and told again that our positions were being switched to hourly…at the end of the meeting…in 30 minutes. Yeah, we started the morning as salaried and two hours later were hourly.
At the next company wide meeting, the CEO went on a tirade regarding employee morale and verbatim said, “if you don't like it here, leave.”
Ok.
Luckily I got extremely sick for three weeks and was graciously allowed to work from home. I spent two feverish weeks job hunting and immediately got three offers. I accept one(the job I currently have and LOVE), and turn in my one week notice as soon as I return to the office.
My manager starts to give me crap about “why did I only give them ~one~ week notice??”
I tell her, “That's 40 hours, which is 80 times more notice than y'all gave me about my position changing to hourly.”
Kind of anticlimactic, but very satisfying at the time.