Lass I know from another team had transferred to a different department and I was asking if that was her choice and she was saying she was told to transfer by a manager cos she had taken too much time off to look after her sick kid.
(3 days in the last 2 months)
Middle management is just full of nasty little sociopaths who often don’t progress further as people either see them for what they are or they need to be kept in place by higher management to deliver nasty decisions.
I’m going to tell all my colleagues through the day, who don’t know what’s happened, to absolutely obliterate morale.