Employee resigns, coworkers and bosses say she's not a 'team player,' call her out behind her back: 'As if I’ve betrayed the team or something'

When you leave a job, it's best to leave on good terms. But sometimes they make that impossible.

When you're moving on from a job, even if it was one you didn't like, odds are you're trying to leave on as good of terms as possible. It's awkward as it is, and you don't want to make it more awkward by causing a scene. Sure, there is time and space for feedback, but you want to keep the relationships that you can. You never know when you're going to need them in the future (or the immediate future if you need references). This is a two-way street, though. You give them respect, but they also have to return the favor. In any job setting, they have to understand if you need to move on, and they should make it easy for you to. They might fear your absence, especially if you were good at your job, but they understand and move on.

But some bosses just lead with bitterness. If you work in a cutthroat environment, it might not stop when you leave their ranks. The toxicity might trickle on to your resignation period, and this can get pretty ugly. If you're doing the polite thing and giving a certain amount of notice, you probably have to keep working with them for at least some amount of time. If the tides have turned against you, it can make this period exceptionally difficult to endure. That's what happened to this worker.

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After months of burnout, this employee did what any good employee should do and started thinking of other options. They had made all the changes and complaints they wished they could have made, and they were ready to give up. So they went through all the appropriate channels to make that happen, and everything seemed fine… until they started hearing whisperings. Their coworkers and management were talking behind their backs- something they just couldn't abide. So they took to the internet for advice. Scroll on to read the full story and see what you thought about it, and see what other workers had to say.
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