Drama as Employee Sends Resignation Letter 5 Minutes after First Salary Hits Account
- A human resource manager has disclosed that five minutes after payday, a new employee decided they were done
- The resignation, sent five minutes after her first salary hit her account, has stirred mixed reactions on the internet
- Now, the viral exit has everyone asking: in today’s job market, who owes loyalty to the other between the employer and employee?
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Mumbai — A fresh recruit’s decision to resign just five minutes after receiving their first salary has sparked a heated debate online, dividing opinion over professionalism, loyalty, and workers’ rights.
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Radhika Raichura, the Director of Organisational Development and HR at VivaConnect Pvt. Ltd., shared the sequence of events on LinkedIn.
How employee resigned after earning
She disclosed that the employee, identified as Priyavarshini M, earned her first salary at 10 am and sent her resignation email at 10.05 am.
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“Five minutes. That’s all it took for a salary to turn into a resignation,” the HR executive wrote. “We waited a whole month for payroll day. They waited five minutes to hit ‘Send’ on their resignation email.”
Priyavarshini had been onboarded, trained, and integrated into the team before deciding to leave immediately after payday.
The HR post framed the incident as a breach of trust, likening it to “leaving a party without saying goodbye, except here, others have to clean up the mess you left."
“Jobs can end in minutes, but your impression lasts for years,” the HR director concluded in the viral post.
She added that salaries come and go, but reputations stay.
Mixed reactions over employee's resignation
The incident has since evolved into a broader discussion on social media about workplace power dynamics and whether the employer-employee relationship is truly equal.
Many pointed out the moral double standards in corporate culture, where loyalty is expected from workers but not always reciprocated by companies.
Critics labelled the move unprofessional, warning that quitting so abruptly could harm a person’s reputation in the job market and undermine their perceived work ethic.
Supporters, however, defended the employee’s right to walk away, citing the common practice of companies terminating staff with little or no notice during layoffs.
They argued that if employers can act in their interests, employees should be equally free to make career decisions that benefit them, even if the timing is controversial.
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Social media reactions to the abrupt resignation
Manoj Matai:
"People resign after getting a salary because several companies simply stop paying if they had resigned before the salary date, even if they are willing to serve the notice period."
Udaibir Singh:
"As an HR, why do you think candidates are in a rush to leave? Toxic workplace? What do you ask them in an exit interview?"
Latheef S.
"This news tells the real stories of how companies treat their employees, and they wait for their payday to exit."
Amrendra Kumar:
"What about layoffs? Employees get fired without even a single minute. This generation is great. Firing and hiring happen fast."
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Meanwhile, Kelvin Waga recently shared a story about a junior employee who was always late, missed deadlines, and kept asking for salary advances.
Just as he was planning to fire him, a chance encounter outside a cancer centre revealed a heartbreaking truth that changed everything.
Waga's assistance turned the young man into the company's best-performing employee, a powerful reminder that kindness can transform lives.
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