I had a manager that was out for a week because his father was recovering from some major surgery. When the day came that he was planning on being back in the office he sent another message saying his dad had to go back to the hospital and he would be a few more days.
He sent a couple more messages like this, still not coming in. After 2 or 3 weeks he just stopped saying anything at all. He totally ghosted us.
It took a really long time for him to officially be fired and we eventually had to break into his desk to get stuff out of it. I also heard we were suing him because he still had his work laptop. Bizarrely enough he tried to connect with a couple of us on LinkedIn afterwards so we knew where he went to work next.
A few months later at a tech meetup we met someone from the team we saw he went to work for. They had the same bizarre experience as us. Showed up like normal for awhile and then just stopped coming in.
Even better was that another person in that group had said their company just hired him!
He was a perfectly competent manager and seemed like a nice guy so I can only imagine what the real story was.
He sent a couple more messages like this, still not coming in. After 2 or 3 weeks he just stopped saying anything at all. He totally ghosted us.
It took a really long time for him to officially be fired and we eventually had to break into his desk to get stuff out of it. I also heard we were suing him because he still had his work laptop. Bizarrely enough he tried to connect with a couple of us on LinkedIn afterwards so we knew where he went to work next.
A few months later at a tech meetup we met someone from the team we saw he went to work for. They had the same bizarre experience as us. Showed up like normal for awhile and then just stopped coming in.
Even better was that another person in that group had said their company just hired him!
He was a perfectly competent manager and seemed like a nice guy so I can only imagine what the real story was.