[mreid]

There are two lines of questioning in an exit interview:

1. Why you left (better job, more opportunity, better location, promotion, career development, etc.)?

2. What made you look (bad management, no promotion, poor benefits, low pay, crappy coworkers, etc.)?

The first is a BS line designed to appease corporate/owners and help them feel they did nothing wrong. The second gets to the real core issues. The trends in the workforce are that the emerging skilled workforce won't put up with crap and have the skills and the value to not have to. Typically, as you get older you have less tolerance for poor management/leadership and even less for a company whose values are out of alignment with your own. With business networking sites like LinkedIn and business information sites like Glassdoor, these morons are not getting away with the behavior of the past. Of course you have to have the skills and capabilities that provide you these opportunities.

We live in a society. I think you have a moral and social responsibility to expose these idiots for what they are (in a very unemotional and professional way) to help your coworkers and any potential future employees (I would also post on Glassdoor).

This is coming from the head of HR.