Manager promotes untrained hire after trusted employees quit, company tanks: 'The place is a ghost town'

One would think that a manager would make careful judgment calls after a group of high-performing employees quit. This is the opportunity to do some serious self-reflection about why they felt the need to leave and what changes can be implemented so that more hard-working, well-trained folks don't leave high and dry. Unfortunately, in order to make smart judgment calls in these scenarios, these managers need to develop an ounce of self-awareness and honesty so they can realistically admit where they might have gone wrong.

This manager, like so many bosses, refused to go there. Instead, he promoted the wrong person, refusing to take advice from one of his former employees (the Redditor). They had properly trained another new hire before their ultimate departure, but this manager had too much of an ego to promote him. So, you can guess what transpired next. Let's just say that business was not booming.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about an employee who learned that a new hire below him was getting paid more.