You've just come into millions of dollars. Anything you want to tell your boss?

In My Humble Opinion
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Maybe you’ve won the lotter; maybe you inherited your long-lost Uncle Kyle’s fortune; maybe you accidentally discovered a huge deposit of gold on your property. How you acquired the millions doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you’ve come into a life-changing amount of money, enough to let you retire immediately and far more than you’ll ever be able to spend unless you somehow manage to buy an NFL, NBA, and MLB team all on your lonesome.

Anything you wanna say to your boss once the funds are verified and you’re ultra-certain that they’re yours?

2

You’ve just come into millions of dollars. Anything you want to tell you boss?

“Sorry. I’ll get a towel.”

3

Nothing rude, but I’d sit him down and let him know everything good and bad that I had to say about him, our department and the company in general. I wouldn’t be accusatory, but it would be a freeing thing to not have to worry about someone’s recommendation or anything like that.

That said, my boss is pretty great, albeit stretched thin and overworked. The rest of the department and company… needs a boot in the ass and some straightening out.

4

Thanks for the support and the opportunity!

5

“Here’s my 2-week notice and the last 13 days are going to be PTO days. If you want to know what I do around here, better start asking right now.”

“You say I can’t take those days off? I think that you are very mistaken.”

6

“I’d like to give two weeks’ notice. Thank you for the opportunity here, but I think it’s time I moved back home.”

7

I’m reminded of comedian Mitch Hedburg’s version of two weeks’ notice: “Hey, boss: in two weeks, you’re going to notice I haven’t been here for two weeks.”

8

I’d tell my boss(es) that they’d never have to fund my school’s debate program for the next century or so - that I’d be leasing them a bus and covering their costs (within reason) out of my pocket instead of the districts. Then I’d thank them for a mostly fun career.

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Thanks, it’s been fun, you’ll do fine if you can find someone to replace me. Otherwise it’ll be tough sledding. See ya!

10

“Thanks for the chance. You threw a life preserver to a 57-year-old man who had been tossed out of his job of 25 years and I don’t know if I can ever convey my appreciation. But I have to move on in a month.”

11

I’ll be retiring in the coming month or two. I’ll be reducing my hours to 24 a week. I want to help get the current system on line, and will be available for consult for a little longer.

12

Thank you for the great opportunity. I cant afford to work here anymore, dues to taxes, and frankly I’d like to do some travel. But I will be happy to stay on a a consultant and help you thru the transition. Good luck!.

13

Thanks for being a great boss. I’ll help train my replacement but I’m going to be gone right after that so I’d appreciate if you make it quick.

14

My boss has always been a nice person. I’d probably write an email and say, “I’m quitting my job, but thanks for having been a good boss.”

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Johnny, Look I have a ton of $$. Why don’t you & I quit these jobs so that we can just go fishing for the rest of our lives. Your boys can handle the shop. Lets just retire in a month. We will buy a boat & a Grumman Widgeon.

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*This is my two-week notice.

I would appreciate it if you could refrain from announcing anything to my coworkers until I’ve left. I’m resigning from the union, and will be making the same request of the chief steward.

Please remove me from the Overtime Desired List, effective immediately.

And if there are any employees on the disabled list in need of annual leave donations to help them get by until they can return to work, I’d like to donate the maximum that is allowed by the program.

Thank you for the patience you’ve shown toward me for the past seven years, and for making this such a great place to work.*

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Well, here’s the thing with the Powerball and Megamillions.

States have two weeks from the drawing to collect the money from the other participating states. So if you go in the next day and claim it, you wait 2 weeks for the money. If you wait 2 weeks and go in, you’ll have the money in your account the next day. (The Hot Lotto is specifically worded such that you do not get the money for two weeks from the date you claim the prize.)

So as much as it would pain me to be silent and keep the secret, I would wait out the two weeks, go in to claim my prize, then stop by the office on my way home, send an “I won the lottery, I hereby resign effective immediately” email, clean out my desk and be done with it.

Had enough rows with my current boss. I could fry him like an egg on the way out, but given that I’d be leaving for the one positive reason everyone dreams of, I see no reason to turn it all negative. Just the “Wish you all the best” email to my team and I’m gone without another word.

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I’m funding my lab and the labs of my colleagues for the next two years. NIH funding is at an all time low and we’re at a primarily teaching university so funding is almost impossible to get. But these are really talented folks with great projects.

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Good Athena, man, read the OP. It specifies that you’ve waited until you’ve already received the funds.

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Since I am effectively self-employed, I would tell my boss to stop worrying about where next month’s rent is coming from. :slight_smile: