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I agree completely. Bitterness or negativity toward people who leave for normal reasons is a common sign of a bad company. Also, when people speak negatively of the person who's in some way my predecessor in a role, I tend to wonder if they're going to say the same things about me in the future.

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I went through this recently and was very put off by it. A team member left for a (dramatically better paying) position elsewhere. The day after that team member left, our manager was making it very clear that they had left us to work on something trivial (and maybe they did, but it's no one else's business) while we were left behind working on Things That Really Matter (medical devices). It wasn't the first time that a Senior Manager at this place was trying to convince the team that "...what we do is making a difference."

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