I would like to thank you for the opportunities you have given me over the years. Blah, blah, blah…
I have gone back and written a nice long letter to my bosses boss that basically said “from where I was sitting, this is what it looked like. It may be different from where you were sitting, but so-and-so is really talented and works hard. So and so is doing a job that you don’t need to do and could be used to relieve some of the pressure over here. Everyone spends too much time in meetings, and this organization does nothing but waste time. And so and so is a backstabbing bitch and I’m not the only one who has left because of it.” But I sent it two weeks after I left to him personally - and we had a pretty good relationship.
Funny thing, I was still talking to my co-workers the next time they reorganized. The good worker got a promotion. The organization that wasted time got reorganized into new duties. More headcount was given to the pressure area. They still had way too many meetings. But the backstabbing bitch got laid off - but not for another six months.
Ever notice that there is Creamora and then there is Coffee-Mate but the two companies could never merge because then it would be Cream-Mate, as accurate as that might sound
As for Job terminating, Never burn a bridge no matter how rickety you mihgt think it to be.
Dear Sirs,
At this time I must tender my resignation due to an opportunity which has recently presented itself. Thank you.
I soooo wanted to bake the shit out of half the management in my resignation letter from the last place I worked.
But as good as it would have felt personally, I knew damned well that it would do no real good, that the people who needed to read it and recognize themselves would do no such thing.
Instead, I wrote a simple, innocent sounding resignation letter.
Then spent a year bitching to everyone I knew about the assholes I used to work for.:rolleyes:
Good luck with quitting, here’s to hoping you land a better one in two days or so. There are few things worse than a crappy job, god knows I worked enough of them to know first hand.
Sounds like your resigning out of motivations similar to the ones I had when I left my last job. In my case, my boss was not only incompetent (20 year career bartender decided she wanted to own a restaurant, and tried to run it just like a bar) but she also didn’t understand that the three cooks in the kitchen, each of us with 20+ years experience in restaurants, probably had a pretty good idea about how to do our jobs.
So after being patient with her for three years, and seeing no improvement, I just wrote a polite letter giving my two weeks notice. I mentioned that, while I could try to stick with it, I would be miserable because the root problems were still there, and would only get worse.
I’ve taken some satisfaction in the 15 months since I left. While I was there, the place suffered an astonishingly high level of turnover in waitresses, but the same three cooks who were there when she bought the place remained the same for three years. Since I left, there have been seven replacements for my position. New cooks there are averaging only 2 months before they’re gone.
I kept the letter short and sweet. To paraphrase–I quit, my last day will be the 22nd, thank you for employing me in the first place.
The news is slowly leaking out, though nobody’s talking above a whisper and I’ve been asked not to tell anyone until the official announcement is made. I’ve noticed an interesting trend: those people who have offices are surprised. Those who are relegated to cubicles are envious.
The Almighty Head of my Department (who works in Cleveland) called to make sure she couldn’t talk me out of it, which I assured her she couldn’t. She also wanted to make sure it had nothing to do with yesterday’s brouhaha (explanation available upon request, but I don’t want to bore you!), which I explained was simply the last straw in a series of … er … straws.
Then the head of the office here decided to discuss, and I told her that no, I have no desire to discuss my reasons today, but I will happily lay them out at my exit interview, when I can just verbally pistol-whip whomever I feel deserves it, then run out the door.
And since announcing my impending departure, I’ve learned all sorts of dirt about people who have made my life hell, and how the gods will eventually smite them. This is so much fun!
My recommendation is that at the exit interview you take a similar tack to your letter. (which was an excellent letter by the way).
The thing is, time moves on, and you just never know. The guy you smite in the exit interview could be working at some company you want to work at in ten years. Plus, you can never have too many good references.
the company i work with had layoffs. until recently, they would wait until 5:15pm on a friday and then tell you not to bother coming in on monday. amoung other rather interesting way of treating people.
so it went that they laid off a project manager in this manner. very cold, very upsetting, no warning.
2 years later the company is not doing so well, not many buildings were being built, arch. firms were closing left and right. the company gets short listed on a job. they are called in for an interview. who do they run into? who is one of 4 people who hold their fate in their hands?
quite right, it was the project manager that was mistreated and tossed out 15 minutes before closing on friday.
Praise every hard working under-appreciated person you can think of; be very formal and polite about the jerks with power.
Remove your notes (especially on how to operated the p.a. system) and you contact list immediately (that’s why they escort people from the building right after they are laid off.)
