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by mgkimsal 2042 days ago
The text ran the same section below that said "have something else lined up first" so the advice wasn't "quit at the drop of a hat".

And I do agree that it's rarely going to lead to any sort of corporate change. I worked at a place with around ... ~20 IT folks. New CEO came in, and within 9 months, 8 of the 20 had left or were leaving (I was one of them). I'd reached out to the previous CEO (who still owned the company, had interviewed me, and was one of the reasons I'd taken the job) and said "something's wrong here". "I don't want to hear it - talk to New CEO". "New CEO is the problem..." "Don't want to hear it...". So... loads of people left. It wasn't until New CEO tried to get rid of one person in particular did alarm bells finally go off, and owner/CEO came back and booted New CEO. So... change happened eventually, but not in reaction to 40% of the IT staff leaving in less than a year.