# any good way to say goodbye to someone you hate, when they're leaving a job?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 14, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-way-to-say-goodbye-to-someone-you-hate-when-theyre-leaving-a-job/634741 "2012-09-14T23:52:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-way-to-say-goodbye-to-someone-you-hate-when-theyre-leaving-a-job/634741/61 "2014-10-06T09:23:17Z")

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> [@sandra\_nz](#):
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> Might be worth pointing out that this is a two-year old thread so I suspect the OP no longer requires advice. 😉

Except now I’m just wondering what he/she actually said?

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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-way-to-say-goodbye-to-someone-you-hate-when-theyre-leaving-a-job/634741/62 "2014-10-06T10:38:45Z")

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> [@elbows](#):
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> Now is no time to reference or acknowledge the difficulties between you, leave that aside.
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> ‘Just want you to know, we really appreciate the full notice and great job you did with training X. I sincerely wish you nothing but good fortune in future!’
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> Shake their hand and walk away.

Yup. After that, you can go home and talk about how glad you are the douchecanoe is gone.

Bonus – you can later use the interaction to answer a stupid interview question about “tell me about a time when you had to work with someone you disliked…”

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-way-to-say-goodbye-to-someone-you-hate-when-theyre-leaving-a-job/634741/63 "2014-10-06T12:30:56Z")

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Dilbert got it right in [1994](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-01-07/): PHB: “Tim will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Note the absence of key phrases such as ‘we regret’ or ‘years of dedicated service’. And notice that his new opportunity is not described as ‘exciting’”.

Dilbert: “I think you’re reading a little too much into that announcement.”

PHB: “No, I’m reading the footnote.”

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