Train your employees so they can look for better opportunities or greener pastures. But treat them well so they will stay.
Only five months down, but seven has resigned or did not renew contracts. If I were the manager, I would have gone to great heights and examine my capabilities in leading people to prosperity and happiness. If I were the HR manager, I would have crammed to find ways on how to stop the resignation of employees. If I were one of the senior leads, I would have gone an extra mile to find out what happened and what is happening.
But I am not.
I am just the new guy in the other room, struggling to find worthwhile engagement activities to stop workmates from resigning and show them that we are just in a tough stage of a mobile game. But I have yet to receive a strong support from the leaders. Everybody is busy. Everyone is chained to their work. Top management is doing leg works. The rank and file is doing leg works. All of us are doing leg works. All of us are sweating at the bottom level of the pyramid.
I do not know if they have noticed that no one is at the top, no one is steering the boat to progress, no one is leading the way.
And when someone resigns, I can only hear “It’s okay, we can do it.”
“It’s fine, we can manage without them.”
“I can’t understand what is happening. I let them manage, but these things happen.”
“When I was managing staff, things like these did not happen.”
“Do you know the reason? Is she/he going to marry anytime soon?”
It’s funny that they think resignation as a result of getting married.
Denial. No one would like to admit fault. And no one would like to examine the reasons of resignation.
Employees, like me, feel like a paper that they can crumple in a whim. Like a crumpled paper that they can throw into the garbage can just because they feel like doing it.
I do not know what will happen in two years. But let me inform those who are up in (not on) the clouds, “I will survive.”
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