# Rate my resignation! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560 "2006-10-06T22:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/21 "2006-10-07T08:07:25Z")
You’ve been spending too much time in the **BBQ Pit**. If you think that letter did not burn bridges, I suspect that there is a homeless troll out in the world, tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/22 "2006-10-07T12:29:37Z")
I answered earlier, but after a night’s sleep I wanted to expand my answer. I would not put this in writing. But if you have an HR exit-interview, I see no problem with voicing your concerns during that. However, I would try hard to do it objectively and without bitterness. You might want to take some notes regarding specific events that you feel show your point. HOWEVER, make sure that this is non-aggressive. The exit interview is intended for this purpose. It allows HR to try to access why their company is hemmoraging good people (if it is.) It allows them to try to take measures for the future. (OK, some might think I’m naive in thinking HR does this, but I reply that that the good ones do.) Good luck in your new career! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/23 "2006-10-07T12:55:31Z")
I agree with what others have said. Keep it neutral. I heard an interesting thing the other day in, of all things, a job interview (I got the job, BTW). The hiring manager told me “People don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses”. True dat. In all likelihood, you’re quitting your boss(es), not your job. To get into the particulars about why you quit is not productive. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/24 "2006-10-07T15:46:55Z")
RE: not wanting to burn bridges … I can smell the smoke from here :eek: Yet another vote for short and sweet. But, good foresight to have it critiqued on here 🙂 (how’s that for positive spin?) FS ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/25 "2006-10-07T15:58:46Z")
BTW, despite my, and all the other good advice once, I helped my wife write a very long “fuck you” letter to United Airlines, once she knew she was never returning to the airline industry, saying what you said but in far nastier terms. It included such highlights as “incompetent”, “idiots”, “ridiculous”, “failure to allow your staff to excel”, “treated like dirt”, and it gave her immense satisfaction to send… ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/26 "2006-10-07T20:12:52Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] \*Especially \* don’t write it, but don’t even _say \* it. [/QUOTE] Actually, do write it, **Duffer**. Really write it. Get into it. Tell your boss what you think of his intelligence, upbringing, characteristic body odor, and the marital status of his parents. Discuss at length the incompetence, cluelessness, and sadism of the H.R. staff. Spend a few paragraphs on the upper management, too. Expound on their lack of useful skills, poor decorating skills, the pointy nature of their hair, and their genetic similarity to Mustela nivalis_. Then tear up the letter, erase it from your computer, and forget you did it. The process of writing the letter will be cathartic. It’ll make you feel a lot better. Just don’t send it. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/27 "2006-10-08T00:03:27Z")
Good advice, and obviously the consensus. I’ve slept on it and sent the resignation consisting of only the first line. There is an exit interview for anyone resigning, and it’s even offered to people that get fired. Part of the reason for this OP was to keep myself from firing off a missive without thinking it through. Thanks all. And **tomndebb** , thanks for the reference to a Troll. Not sure what you meant, but coming from you it’s par for the course. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/28 "2006-10-08T02:36:37Z")
[QUOTE=duffer] And **tomndebb** , thanks for the reference to a Troll. Not sure what you meant, but coming from you it’s par for the course. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Whoosh. (He wasn’t calling you a troll. He was referring to the “fact” that trolls live under bridges, and that was definitely a bridge-burning letter. So if you burn a bridge, then you leave a troll without his home. Just a little wordplay.) Good luck in your new job. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560/29 "2006-10-08T04:01:22Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] (He wasn’t calling you a troll. He was referring to the “fact” that trolls live under bridges, and that was definitely a bridge-burning letter. So if you burn a bridge, then you leave a troll without his home. Just a little wordplay.) [/QUOTE] Yeah, I kinda saw it that way as well, but based on history, it wasn’t unreasonable to infer the other meaning. Not really important either way. Thanks for the well-wishing. Appreciated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-my-resignation/375560.md?page=1)