When you reach the point where you’re to express your dissatisfaction your boss, you hope they deeply regret their previous behavior. This survey reveals that one in eight individuals strategically time their resignation to create the maximum disruption for their employer.

For instance, let’s say you’re prepared to quit now, but you’re aware that your boss heavily relies on your presence at an important sales meeting next Thursday. In this case, you wait until Wednesday to submit your resignation. Similarly, in the radio industry, you wait until right before going on air.

Here are a few additional statistics from the survey:

1. The most common methods of quitting are in person or via email. Additionally, 19% of respondents have “ghosted” their boss, abruptly leaving without any communication. Furthermore, 1 in 10 individuals have quit their job through a text message.

2. Ghosting your boss doesn’t mean you’re completely gone. More than 10% of respondents have written emotionally charged reviews of their former employers on platforms like Glassdoor. The top five words used in these reviews are stressful, frustrating, disorganized, toxic, and overworked.

3. Over half of the respondents have had the urge to yell or confront their boss while quitting, but refrained from doing so. Interestingly, even those who have expressed their frustrations don’t feel remorseful. In fact, 95% of respondents do not regret anything they said while quitting a job.

4. More than 10% of managers claim to have been yelled at during an employee’s resignation, although they believe they didn’t deserve it.

5. Sometimes, individuals hold back their true feelings to spare their boss’s emotions. One in six people have lied in their feedback while quitting to be considerate towards their boss.

(NewsNation / Preply)