Another example of toxic leadership ( i.e. managership in 3M these days).
In the middle of the pandemic, a well respected high level scientist in the Corporate Labs with multiple decades of experience quit 3M in an unique way.
He waited till the last date of the month (it was a Friday) and simply quit by deciding to retire by completing the requisite steps in 3M Workday. Note that he did not inform his management team about this in any way. Only HR knew about his decision.
Imagine what happened when they found out!! Complete pandemonium and embarrassment all around.
Apparently this was done in protest against this guy's immediate manager and his / her policies. This clueless middle manager, who came to 3M from another failed US corporation, was a classic unqualified DEI candidate who was a complete disaster of a manager in 3M and was eventually canned from that position (much to the relief of the whole group).
The working theory was that thanks to the bold and unique gesture of the retired person, upper management finally took note and removed the middle manager from his / her role and put him / her in some " special projects" kind of role with zero direct reports.