This needs to be called out..

People don’t leave because the job is hard. People leave because YOU - or someone around you - makes it god damn impossible.

• Because you expect A+ performance for C- paychecks
• Because you tend to discredit all the good work of the past, and hammer hard on the recent bad run
• Because the best employees carry the weight of 5 people while the worst ones keep getting promoted
• Because you micromanage the good ones and let the useless ones roam free
• Because of internal politics
• Because you as a manager is always watching, always questioning, always doubting
• Because every decision needs 3 approvals, 2 meetings, and a PowerPoint deck
• Because their creativity is crushed under 50 layers of unnecessary feedback
• Because they're held accountable for things outside their control
• Because their time isn’t theirs - it belongs to a never-ending flood of Slack and whatsapp messages

But you won't fix it You'll just wait for the next burnt-out, fed-up, undervalued employee to quit Then you'll blame "work ethics" and post another "LinkedIn job with "Looking for a passionate team player" highlighted.

Passion isn’t the problem. The problem is YOU.