This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager .
We talk a lot here about ways to avoid burning bridges when you leave a job. But sometimes burning the bridge is warranted — the provocation is sufficiently bad, and you’re willing to take the consequences.
One example: the person who got an email at 3 pm on a Friday saying they were being replaced by their boss’s unqualified friend and their salary cut by tens of thousands of dollars. So when they found a new job a few months later, they sent a 3 pm Friday email just before a big deliverable was due, quitting and giving two hours notice, the exact same notice they’d been given for their demotion.
Have you ever intentionally burned a bridge because you decided it was worth it? Let’s hear about it in the comments.
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