New Manager “Asks For The Resignation Of Anyone Who Doesn't Believe Her Way Will Work By 5 PM The Next Day”, Sales Rep Team Resigns On The Spot

Imagine having a fantastic manager, a near-perfect job, constantly hitting targets in a stress-free environment. This was the job of an experienced sales rep employee and Redditor SubjectAd who wrote how everything went downhill in a post on the Malicious Compliance reddit.

It all changed when their initial manager couldn’t handle the stress “from the higher-ups breathing down his neck about his management style” who were unhappy “as he is not doing it through their formula.” They didn’t care that SubjectAd’s team would constantly not just make but also exceed their targets.

The new manager turned out to be “just a yes man for the higher-ups.” That meant the beginning of a very outdated workplace style, no relationship building, and constant monitoring of the employees.

As you can suspect, this didn’t sit well with the team’s productivity or their motivation. And given the first opportunity, the author and his fellow old-timer team handed in their resignation notices.

“The fact that many of the top-performing employees resigned shows that what people really value from a workplace nowadays is the work culture and their ability to thrive and enjoy their working life,” Christine Mitterbauer, a licensed, ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur based in the UK told us in response to our request to comment on this situation.

According to Mitterbauer, many employees value this far greater than their salary and even the safety of their job. “The fact that the company decided to enforce its rigid, old-fashioned framework to that unit is, in my opinion, short-sighted and stupid, frankly speaking.”

“For the new boss lady to ask people to resign by 5 pm the next day if they’re not on board with the new rules is also just a taster of the new, more authoritarian style of leadership that will await employees,” the career coach explained.

Mitterbauer concluded, “If I was an employee and I could at all afford to give up my job until I find a new one, I would also resign.”