A disgruntled worker shared this experience to Reddit’s r/antiwork subreddit, claiming that their employer had refused to honor their accrued PTO once they handed in their notice. They had thought that they were doing the correct and honorable thing by giving their notice to their employer but felt that this had just come back to bite them.

The relationship between an organization and its workers is built upon trust. Once that trust is betrayed by a worker/workers it’s completely fair that the organization loses faith in those individuals. However, when the organization betrays the trust of one of its workers it’s only going to be natural for them to lose confidence in the organization. That’s an important thing for employers to realize, if you do things like not honor accrued leave for an employee, other employees are going to find out. This is going to completely destroy the morale of your remaining team members and ensure that they don’t give you any notice when they decide to leave as well. So, in this roundabout way, it’s actually a good business decision to front the cost of something such as paying out leave. It’s a cost of doing business and maintaining trust, even with your departing employees, will only serve to help you in the long run.

Commenters voiced their outrage at the employer’s actions and shared some stories of their own.

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