It's kinda odd. i spent much of the day composing the various fare-thee-well notes that seem to be required when one leaves a company after working there an inordinate amount of time.
Personally, i don't think i'll ever top Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter, which is pure genius, but since you don't get many of these sorts of things, it's always nice to make it memorable.
The sad thing is that i know i suck as a writer. i suck at doing speeches too. So a good part of me kinda hopes that i never actually do give the various things i've written up. Still, since i hate not being prepared for something (i blame reruns of Batman more than time spent in the Boy Scouts), i took the effort to craft up something anyway. As fate would have it, i never had to give it.
Kinda funny, that. After four rewrites, more editing than it probably needed, it sat, unread in my back pocket all afternoon.
Ah well, maybe i'll salvage a few bits and post them to Devel-random.
You're a good writer, you goob. Just modest.
That being said, and as much as I appreciate Butterfield's letter, I pity the HR drones in the Valley that will have to parse a billion copycat "bizarro resignation" letters to see if the person in question is quitting, burnt out, drunk or actually a stellar explorer from Mylar 17 being called home after years on this planet the ancients called "Urf."
That Butterfield email is fantastic but yeah what Shep said — don't underestimate yourself jr!
Good luck on whatever you've got cooking next.
I had a "resignation" (really, message to the troops) letter crafted in one fashion or another for something like five years - always ready to go at a moment's notice.
In the end, I wrote one completely from scratch that was only about 3.2% as sarcastic. Failure to commit, that's my issue
‘If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that’s obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that’s honey.’ - A N Wilson
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please jr, don't go down the sobby-sobby road with whatever you're gonna post. totally not you. though, i think stewart stole your thunder, i bet you could have outwitted him with a "sushi in my blood" letter of good-bye.