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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/meg_ea on 2025-12-05 14:09:18+00:00.
For the past year, I've been hearing from my leadership, "If someone thinks about leaving, we wish they'd tell us so we could help them find something." I was naive enough to take them at their word. So, when I decided that I was ready to explore other opportunities, I told my boss. No solid timeline, hadn't even interviewed for a single job yet. Just a common courtesy, "Hey, I'm thinking about looking." No solid timeline, no indication of my final day of work. Just a common courtesy that they had spent the last year publicly asking employees for.
The next week, my boss asked me to post my job. I was really stunned because I'd never seen someone get treated this way in my company. I didn't expect them to start recruiting for my job until I'd told them "Hey, I'm getting this far along with this job and I think it's going well, maybe we should start looking." Because I absolutely would have done that for them. I thought there was that mutual trust. I've never left a job without giving one month's notice. I wouldn't leave them hanging, and I really thought they trusted me to leave in good taste.
Well, I've spent the last week watching my boss interview other people for my role, and I just lost the only solid lead I had.
TLDR; Took my boss at his word and gave them a heads up that I was exploring other opportunities, and now I have nothing and I'm on time crunch... go figure, hahaha.