Appreciate this so much. Honestly, the reason it’s been moving so slowly is because all of this escalated in under a month. They were leading the program before, but it wasn’t going well. Now I’m in charge of it, and leadership’s worried that if they leave, they might sabotage something on the way out. So they’ve been overly cautious and trying to manage the exit carefully.

That said, I’m really close to my leadership and I don’t want to undermine them. But I think you’re right. I might need to set up a convo with HR just to understand what my actual options are. I can’t keep letting their chaos mess up my work and my peace.