So I’m leaving a job that I really enjoyed after two years to work for a smaller company (too many positives to list, I’m happy to make the move). My official resignation is in to HR. I wanted to send an email out to the folks I work with to let them know I’m leaving, to thank them, and to give them my contact info. I want to do something short and sweet and sound sincere. Everything I draft is too long and sounds like I want to give everyone a hug & kiss. Any help would be great!
I wanted to let you all know that I’m leaving the company to pursue other opportunities . It’s been a pleasure working with all of you. I can be reached at <personal_email_address>. Best of luck to all of you. Keep in touch.
Dear colleagues,
What can I say, it’s been a great ride and I sincerely appreciate everything the X-company has done for me but the time is right for me to make a personal choice and follow my heart to a position I feel better fits where I am in my career right now. You guys have been great, I will always cherish the time I spent here and will fondly remember more of you that I will forget. Please keep in touch and let me know how you are doing from time to time. Keep up the lunch cooler monday morning quarteback sessions and the stimuilating discussion of how to make the company a better place for you and grab more market share in the process.
For those of you planning to get me a gold watch or who wish to buy me drinks at lunch my last day will be 1/31/08.
Fondly,
Emac21
emac21@yahoo.com
Go out like Dave Chappelle:
I’m out, bitches!
Short and simple, right?
Dear whoever,
It has been a great experience working at XYZ; i have appreciated the opportunity and have enjoyed working with everyone.
However, at this time i have made a decision to go in a different direction from a professional standpoint. Please accept this as my notice of resignation effective (state your last day).
Kind regards,
sign your name and leave your email address
Keep it simple sweetheart. nobody wants to hear you drudge on and on about the company, your personal situation, why you’re leaving, etc. it is best to be concise and not drag everyone into your own world as to how and why you arrived at this situation. the point is you’re resigning, so state that in a simple, positive manner. if you reach a point where you need to have a conversation about how/why you arrived at this point, then you can have conversations. but nobody wants to read an extensive resignation letter.
good luck,
kc
Dear colleagues,
I am leaving my current position to take a job in the credit and accounts department of Union Bank of NigeriaPlc,Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in respect of a foreign customer with a Domicilliary account. His name is Engineer Manfred Becker. He was among those who died in a plane crash in Nigeria during the reign of late General Sani Abacha.
Since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Manfred Becker, who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had only $18.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or password of the deposit particulars. As it stands now,there is nobody in that position to produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position in the bank.
Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of kin, I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from the safe.By so doing, what is required is to send an aplication laying claims of the deposit on your name as next of kin to the late Engineer. I will need your full name and address telephone/fax number,company or residential, also your bank name and account,where the money will be transfer into.
Trusting to hear from you,
Emac21
Here is a real example from someone I used to work with who sent this email on his last day (I already knew he was leaving):
After 4+ years (and a heck of a lot of frequent flyer miles), it looks like my time has come to move on. As I believe most of you know, I have received an offer for an opportunity at XX that is too good for me to turn down. Therefore, today is my last day at ZZ.
First, I want to say thank you to everyone. I believe that the people that you work with make all of the difference in your job. I have learned an amazing amount from each of you and I believe I’m a better person for the time I have spent with each of you. It has been quite a challenge for me as I have made my transition from the technical side of a service provider to the business side of a vendor and I have learned a lot from each of you along the way (especially you guys on the Sales Team who are amazing at working the business side on the accounts).
Second, I want to wish you best of luck. It is never an easy decision to leave an endeavor that has been such an integral part of your life. I truly hope that ZZ continues its success and please feel free to contact me for information/background/support on activities that I have been involved with in the past if I can be of help. I also hope that each of you will find the personal success you desire in your own families and careers.
I will not be relocating for my new position, so I will still be local. I hope to keep in touch with the team and maybe we can even find some opportunities to work together again in the future.
My personal contact information is:
Best Regards,
Bob
Everyone,
It's been a pleasure working here but my time has come. I hope we'll all stay friends, but the reality is we were never friends to begin with. We only acted like it becasue we had to spend so much time together. Frankly, I never realy had a whole lot in common with any of you.
Reagrds, Emac.
PS - Marissa has been sleeping with the boss.
a little comedy relief. around 2:11in the clip is a perfect resignation. (lol)
To all,
Thanks for the fish.
Emac.
**Thanks for the fish. **
You missed the “So long” before the “Thanks” and the “all” before “the fish.” But that is funny.
Bernie