This was harder than I'd expected...
Sep. 2nd, 2004 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shirenomadDear Boss,
Yesterday was only the latest sign of problems that have been developing for months.
If our personalities weren’t in such conflict, if I thought my ideas and opinions were treated with any weight, if I felt valued and well-compensated for my work, if I still had faith that you could get this program off the ground, or even if I was just allowed to do my job without your micromanagement, I think I would be able to stay. But none of those statements are true.
Maybe I was being generous by forcing myself to keep going as best I could; maybe I was being selfish by continuing to demand a paycheck from you when I knew I was not able to give you my full support. Maybe I'm an idiot for even considering leaving your sure-fire road to success, and years from now I'll still be regretting it just like you claim. It doesn’t matter anymore. The fact is that I stopped enjoying this job months ago, and if I stay, all you will have on your hands is an increasingly resentful employee. It needs to end now.
This is my two weeks notice. During this period, feel free to give me whatever duties you think are necessary to a smooth transition. If you cannot find a replacement in this time, I am willing to come back on a Saturday to educate one on the office processes when you do find him or her. With luck, your next employee will be someone who can better help you in your goals, who can bring true experience to the table, or who just understands you and your management style better.
I do appreciate the experience I gained here. Believe me when I say I would not leave if I did not find it absolutely necessary. But there comes a point when I have to face the facts and move on. Therefore, I tend my resignation effective Friday, September 17, 2004.
Sincerely,
Chris Reaves
I really have no problems with my boss as a person, no matter what previous entries may have implied. He's a nice guy, amiable, fairly lenient, always light-hearted. And IMHO is about as capable of managing a start-up as Boo the Miniature Giant Space Hamster. (Or the Conscience Temp Hamster. Either works.) Even if I'm wrong about that, it had reached the point where I knew this was not someplace I could stay. This didn't make it any easier to tell him to his face that I was out of here... which is why I wrote the letter, left it on his keyboard, and let him read it without comment.
He managed to negotiate me to the end of the month if he paid me $450 a week from here out instead of the usual $300. Given that I don't, in fact, have any jobs lined up to move into, I found this acceptable.
Yesterday was only the latest sign of problems that have been developing for months.
If our personalities weren’t in such conflict, if I thought my ideas and opinions were treated with any weight, if I felt valued and well-compensated for my work, if I still had faith that you could get this program off the ground, or even if I was just allowed to do my job without your micromanagement, I think I would be able to stay. But none of those statements are true.
Maybe I was being generous by forcing myself to keep going as best I could; maybe I was being selfish by continuing to demand a paycheck from you when I knew I was not able to give you my full support. Maybe I'm an idiot for even considering leaving your sure-fire road to success, and years from now I'll still be regretting it just like you claim. It doesn’t matter anymore. The fact is that I stopped enjoying this job months ago, and if I stay, all you will have on your hands is an increasingly resentful employee. It needs to end now.
This is my two weeks notice. During this period, feel free to give me whatever duties you think are necessary to a smooth transition. If you cannot find a replacement in this time, I am willing to come back on a Saturday to educate one on the office processes when you do find him or her. With luck, your next employee will be someone who can better help you in your goals, who can bring true experience to the table, or who just understands you and your management style better.
I do appreciate the experience I gained here. Believe me when I say I would not leave if I did not find it absolutely necessary. But there comes a point when I have to face the facts and move on. Therefore, I tend my resignation effective Friday, September 17, 2004.
Sincerely,
Chris Reaves
I really have no problems with my boss as a person, no matter what previous entries may have implied. He's a nice guy, amiable, fairly lenient, always light-hearted. And IMHO is about as capable of managing a start-up as Boo the Miniature Giant Space Hamster. (Or the Conscience Temp Hamster. Either works.) Even if I'm wrong about that, it had reached the point where I knew this was not someplace I could stay. This didn't make it any easier to tell him to his face that I was out of here... which is why I wrote the letter, left it on his keyboard, and let him read it without comment.
He managed to negotiate me to the end of the month if he paid me $450 a week from here out instead of the usual $300. Given that I don't, in fact, have any jobs lined up to move into, I found this acceptable.
