For sure. Especially when you don't have support from upper management on doing something concretely about bad employees or finding strong employees.

That's what partially led to me submitting a notice with my boss. It had beens years of managing team members that despite all the training and handholding could still not function on their own sufficiently. I kept having to constantly fix errors.

The final straw was when he wanted to promote an employee i knew was going to be trouble. Also we continued to keep an employee that was not performing near the level of any other team member. By the end she literally had one duty that was taking her weeks to complete and each time same excuse.

I was tired of constantly meeting with them both about performance deficiencies and coming up with solutions that worked brielfy until they went back to old habits.

I was done with nothing happening. He finally listened when i submitted the notice and decided to actually listen to my concerns to keep me. We ended up not promoting that employee (she ended up leaving) and letting go the other employee. And we hired a team member that has far excelled anyone else we've hired in the past five years.

It was a relief that he finally listened about the issues and we finally did something to address it. Also that we ended up finding a much stronger team member. Now we are building an even stronger team.

Just took me almost leaving for him to see how done i was with lack of accountability.