Farewell Email.
Discussion
Being made redundant after 10+ years service and would like to go out with a NICE email to all.
The whole site have been fantastic over the years and I thought a funny upbeat Email to announce my departure would go down well.
Any ideas anyone?
Re... "f
k you aholes" is not what I had in mind.
The whole site have been fantastic over the years and I thought a funny upbeat Email to announce my departure would go down well.
Any ideas anyone?
Re... "f
k you aholes" is not what I had in mind.
I started mine with Sayonara Motherfkers! Then went on to say thanks to everyone and that they'd be welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn or drop me an email to my personal account if they wanted to stay in touch.
Those that I knew outside of work already had my contact details anyway, and typically those are the ones I've kept up with
My g/f has a different view to me on this, when she left she just left and didnt bother with the whole SeeYa email, thought it wasnt the right thing to do
ETA - I also liked the one from GroupOn CEO, different circumstances but a good one regardless https://www.jottit.com/v5wux/
kers! Then went on to say thanks to everyone and that they'd be welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn or drop me an email to my personal account if they wanted to stay in touch.Those that I knew outside of work already had my contact details anyway, and typically those are the ones I've kept up with
My g/f has a different view to me on this, when she left she just left and didnt bother with the whole SeeYa email, thought it wasnt the right thing to do
ETA - I also liked the one from GroupOn CEO, different circumstances but a good one regardless https://www.jottit.com/v5wux/
Adenauer said:
Just remember that you might want to go back there one day. 
This, always. I've been an IT contractor for 22 years so have worked in many, many places. I have never, ever burned my bridges at any site I've been on, even if I've thought they were total tossers.So IMO it should be friendly, humourous and not controversial.
Dog Star said:
Adenauer said:
Just remember that you might want to go back there one day.
This, always. I've been an IT contractor for 22 years so have worked in many, many places. I have never, ever burned my bridges at any site I've been on, even if I've thought they were total tossers.So IMO it should be friendly, humourous and not controversial.
I got finished from a contract once and the Personnel Manager dropped me on the Friday before I went on our family holiday the following week.
Privately I swore many times but mainly about what a low life to55er he was.
I found a job in Switzerland on a six month work permit and got on with it but telling all my contractor mates about the nasty man.
Six months later and 5 days before my Switzerland fun was over the nasty man called me and offered a job.
"Of course I'll be only too happy
Start ? next Monday ? Sure. See you then, great,yes, cheers, all the best....".Best contract I've have ever had and I'm still on it nearly 14 years later
Don't burn bridges.
I got deleted from the last place by an e-mail over a weekend, asking me not to return on Monday - I'd had the bare minimum notice etc but told not to tell any of the staff or it would count against me in their decision who to let go.... but I knew long before that it would be me.
I'd decided that I'd go cap in hand to the job centre and feed my family with Tesco Value Horse before I'd ever work with anyone involved with that den of aholes again - so I sent a personal e-mail to the decent people there explaining what had happened, and that I was sorry I couldn't say goodbye etc - I kept it sensible and impersonal, but made the facts of it very clear, if any bridges were left I well and truly burnt them, just in case decades from now I grew rose tinted about the whole sordid episode and somehow got involved with that coven of aholes again - not the 'right' thing to do, didn't achieve anything, made me feel a lot better.
I'd decided that I'd go cap in hand to the job centre and feed my family with Tesco Value Horse before I'd ever work with anyone involved with that den of a
holes again - so I sent a personal e-mail to the decent people there explaining what had happened, and that I was sorry I couldn't say goodbye etc - I kept it sensible and impersonal, but made the facts of it very clear, if any bridges were left I well and truly burnt them, just in case decades from now I grew rose tinted about the whole sordid episode and somehow got involved with that coven of aholes again - not the 'right' thing to do, didn't achieve anything, made me feel a lot better. One was sent in my last place along the lines of the below with a date and time to meet pre his 'voyage'. This was to a select group rather than an "all at"
After an appropriate period of deliberation, I have come to the decision to tender my resignation from XXXX, effective April 1, 2005.
Please know that I still maintain a high level of respect for you as a manager and supervisor, and I thank you sincerely for the support and assistance you have offered me in each of those roles. I have been proud to work for XXXX over the past three years; it has been a journey that has provided me an unparalleled foundation to move forward to new and exciting opportunities.
As such, I have decided to become a professional pirate. It has always been a dream of mine to live the life of a swashbuckling corsair, beholden to none and master of all I survey. Once my crew of unabashed rogues is assembled, we shall take to the capacious expanse of the high seas to pursue fortune, fame, and hair-raising adventure.
Our path may not be filled with the porcine comforts and technological marvels that XXXX provides, but we shall nonetheless move forward to carve a name for ourselves in the annals of bold insurgency and death-defying derring-do. Once I have a keen blade at my hip and the Jolly Roger is flapping high above me, I believe I will find my true calling.
Please note that I am currently accepting applications for First Officer, if you are at all interested in applying. I will provide a full medical and dental plan, which will offer immediate coverage of all maladies other than scurvy and the occasional bout of rickets.
After an appropriate period of deliberation, I have come to the decision to tender my resignation from XXXX, effective April 1, 2005.
Please know that I still maintain a high level of respect for you as a manager and supervisor, and I thank you sincerely for the support and assistance you have offered me in each of those roles. I have been proud to work for XXXX over the past three years; it has been a journey that has provided me an unparalleled foundation to move forward to new and exciting opportunities.
As such, I have decided to become a professional pirate. It has always been a dream of mine to live the life of a swashbuckling corsair, beholden to none and master of all I survey. Once my crew of unabashed rogues is assembled, we shall take to the capacious expanse of the high seas to pursue fortune, fame, and hair-raising adventure.
Our path may not be filled with the porcine comforts and technological marvels that XXXX provides, but we shall nonetheless move forward to carve a name for ourselves in the annals of bold insurgency and death-defying derring-do. Once I have a keen blade at my hip and the Jolly Roger is flapping high above me, I believe I will find my true calling.
Please note that I am currently accepting applications for First Officer, if you are at all interested in applying. I will provide a full medical and dental plan, which will offer immediate coverage of all maladies other than scurvy and the occasional bout of rickets.
Adenauer said:
LivingTheDream said:
slopes said:
Last job i left, i left this as an email for those who had access to them.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Nobody got it.
are you a dolphin?So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Nobody got it.
DWS said:
Adenauer said:
LivingTheDream said:
slopes said:
Last job i left, i left this as an email for those who had access to them.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Nobody got it.
are you a dolphin?So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Nobody got it.
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