I presume, since your employer didn't try to fire you for insubordination or something silly, that you were able to collect unemployment? They weren't as bad a

I presume, since your employer didn't try to fire you for insubordination or something silly, that you were able to collect unemployment? They weren't as bad as they could have been! The signal given to other employees will hurt them in the long-term. Nobody will ever let on that they might be thinking about leaving. "Why did Bob, who had just begun to lead the new project, decide to take some other job? Wow, what a jerk!"