Why Millennials Quit: A Letter To Incompetent Leaders

Tim Denning
The Startup
Published in
6 min readMar 25, 2019

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We’ve all worked in one of those companies where people are disposable. Every week there is someone new leaving to go elsewhere for the same money and the same job title.

It makes no sense, initially.

A growing number of people who regularly quit because of incompetent leaders are millennials. Many of the companies we admire for the technology and disruption they have created are full of millennials.

Well, I’m a millennial, and not everyone who is older than me understands why we quit. I thought I’d explain it to those who may not understand.

In one sentence, millennials quit incompetent leaders not companies.

Here’s my letter to those leaders.

Dear incompetent leaders,

You hired us hoping that you could convince us to take a mortgage and follow your reign of terror. You wanted us to give up our time, holidays, dreams and career goals so we can serve you almighty master.

Unfortunately, you forgot that we have the freedom to do whatever we want and that includes ignoring you.

Yes, we’re obsessed with social media, we post weird and wonderful things online, we’re not afraid to share our thoughts even if it get’s us fired and we’re ‘a…

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Tim Denning
The Startup

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