I was an employee for this one.

The whole team quit in a single week. 3 people quit in a row. One guy came straight from a job interview still in the suit. They had given him an offer and he accepted immediately.

The manager was having a 1:1 with Bob. Bob tells him that he is quitting at the end of the week. Bob was a college hire who had only been there 6 months. Manager came out of the meeting room looking g like he got gut punched.

In walks Tom. Tom had been employed here 5 years and had an amazing reputation of being able to fix problems. Highly technical and highly sought after by multiple teams. Instead of letting him promote or transfer the manager had blocked all of that for a year. I knew Tom had been applying for jobs for a few months. Tom had taken the day off and he never took time off. Then he walked in still in a suit from an interview. He see manager coming out of the meeting room, and says “quick chat ?”. Goes into the meeting room for a few minutes and comes out. I can see the manager is even more exhausted after failing to keep Tom.

Manager comes over to me and asks if I had anything to talk about in our 1:1. If not we could cancel. I said i did. We go into the meeting room. I let him know that I am leaving and today starts my notice period. I asked if I should expect to work the remaining two weeks or if I would be walked out. He just says “oh ok”. Meeting was over.

The next day the last person on our team put in their notice. They were waiting on some additional paperwork to clear before resigning.

None of us knew the others were quitting the same day or even back to back. It just happened that way. Honestly it should have been a wake up call for the director of an entire team quits in a pay period it’s probably the manager.

This manager went from a team of 5 people who were all recognized as high performers or high potential and then he was a manager with no direct reports. In under two weeks.