My Direct Report Just Quit, What Do I Do?

John Hartley
5 min readJul 27, 2022

I’ve written plenty on how to quit a job, but how do you respond when you’re on the other side of things?

That’s it. Post over.

The real #1 here is “don’t turn into a jerk.” They are leaving. It’s done. Don’t make it more difficult than it needs to be. Instead, move forward and think about how to help the rest of your team.

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John Hartley

Engineering leader with a passion for building and growing teams. Writing about leadership and management in the tech industry. Director of Eng @ Curology