A week ago during a team meeting a manager gave the rhetoric of do more with less, work longer etc…capped off with “if you don’t like, you can find a job somewhere else”.
He replied on the call with everyone to hear it, “challenge accepted, I quit. This is my two week notice. It can be sooner than that if you want. I haven’t been looking but I’ve saved up enough money to live off of for quite a while and I’m confident I can find another job.” Naturally there was an awkward silence with “we can talk about this at a later time”. Replied with “nothing to talk about really”.
Less than a week later “I’ve networked for quite a while over the years and I reached out and found something that fits me as good or better than here. So I’m still on point to quit” and he did that very thing, he left. Most thought he already had something locked in because its totally impossible to ever find a job that fast. In this case they were wrong. It turned out to be as simple or lucky however you want to look at it, as that.
I bet going forward the manager will not be so brazen with the “don’t like it leave” speech.