If, after quitting your job, you hear or get notified about your ex-leader doing these :
- Speaking negatively about your departure
- Undermining your decision by criticizing you, your new role or company
- Attempting to make you feel guilty
- Spreading resentment throughout the organisation
- Taking the resignation as a personal attack
- Prioritizing their own interests over those of the team
- Being absent or unavailable for the team during the transition
- Spreading gossip about you
- Delaying or writing vague performance appraisals or recommendations for you
- Displaying an “it’s all about me” attitude
- Failing to acknowledge their own mistakes or shortcomings
- Blaming others for failures or problems within the team
These behaviours scream insecurity, selfishness, and a lack of confidence in building and retaining talent. They crush team morale, erode trust, and send a clear message to the rest of the team: ‘You’re disposable too.’