There is a right way to quit a job, and a wrong way to quit a job.Last week, a Twitter employee demonstrated the worst of the latter.
Here’s the story, told by Twitter, appropriately enough via two tweets:
Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day. We are conducting a full internal review. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
Throughout my career advising employers, I’ve seen lots of mishandled resignations.
Some would call them ill-advised lapses in judgment, others would call them burnt bridges.
A few resulted in lawsuits.
The worst I’ve ever seen involved late night copying of customer files. My successful request for injunctive relief resulted in the return of the files … jumbled together in 19 large, black garbage bags.
Some never change their stripes, I suppose.
What’s the worst employee exit you’ve ever witnessed or experienced? Share in the comments below. I’ll publish my favorites in a future post.