There are certain cases in life where you need to acknowledge that something is out of your control. That there's simply no way that you can meaningfully influence the direction of the outcome.
Still, some managers think that they can control everything in their sphere. The level of ego involved and self-assuradity undoubtedly may make them effective in some areas of their role, and might have gotten them there to begin with. But it becomes borderline delusion when it comes to others.
A perfect example is the one presented in this story, where their manager outright refused to acknowledge this engineer's resignation (which was really the impending end of their limited contract). Since their contract was ending anyway, there really wasn't any need for them to give notice at all. But the insistent denial and refusal to discuss either their resignation or their contract still didn't stop them from being stunned when the employee tried to hand in their company equipment on the last day. The manager attempted to employ one last method of control by telling the employee that they were to stay for another 2 months, basically declaring that they weren't allowed to leave until such time as a suitable replacement had been found.
What would have happened from here if they'd decided to stay is uncertain because, well, they didn't actually have to. They stayed the course of their original plan and left for their new job, leaving their manager to face the reality that they had been avoiding.
It's not the first time we've heard of situations such as this, with similar stories of managers having their resignations ignored for a full four-week duration—right up until the bitter end.
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Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.
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