Would you be honest at your exit interview?

[chatenoire]

I really want to BUT I'm very good friend's with my manager and don't really want to cause her any trouble at work. HOWEVER it was her management and her actions that made me look for another job. Great friend, terrible manager.

@chatenoire that's pretty much what I'm seeing 🤣🤣 several people have left because I'm not there as a buffer. Those that are still there are open about missing me. The power hungry one who wrecked the department has been offered the chance to train as a manager 🤦‍♀️ but she wants to pick and choose which bits she does (which she can't obviously) and is stamping and crying about how unfair everything is.

In the meantime I've got more hours more money and a defined work rota and less stress.

Judging from nothing being done for years as the result of our resources survey despite constant promises I wouldn't be honest during exit. I doubt anything would be done anyway and I wouldn't want to jeopardize any way back or my future.

I always thought the sheer numbers of people exiting would mean employers would re evaluate practices but I don't think they do.

I'd be honest, but try to be constructive - e.g. maybe couch things in terms of your manager's workload, possibly needing some support/training, how things could work better, etc.

If you make sensible suggestions, there shouldn't be any bad feelings.

Don't go in there and just moan.

Haven’t read all the thread but I did not have an exit interview. The things I had to say were obvious and if they hadn’t listened when I told them before they weren’t going to listen now.

I did go into the main problem person and tell them everything they had done wrong over the years in case they cared to change and not fuck up another woman’s experience. I figured he never would but I had done everything I felt I could to make a positive impact without feeding into the HR BS process.