"I quit" or Going Out With A Bang

[jfurf]

My brother and every other employee and manager at his company got this e-mail yesterday from their now former co-worker. Names will NOT be redacted to protect the innocent.  

02/19/2009 02:44 PM

To
HVH Employees - PA/DE
cc
Subject
I quit



I am the first one of your skilled staff to resign from what is likely
to be the shell of your company. A combination of directors
blackmailing  each other
 and the constant bitching of the manager director / Tricia Burgess
has firced me to considder my postion at this time as being untenable.
An offer of 1 million dollards could not convince me to stay with your
company. a postion of junior goat herder in Mongolia would be more
postive career step , than staying here. what a shame . I have worked
with well with other  but  yet have been criminally overlooked.

Finaly: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys





Sheena Gordon
Closing Specialist
1005 west 9th ave Suite A
King of Prussia, PA 19406
(610)491-2420 ext 1237
Fax: (610)491-2476

[Cheddarhead]

Buh-bye...

Good on ya if you can walk out with your pride and integrity intact.  Hope you have another position/opportunity lined up.

Seems a bit "me-centric", though.  Maybe she was channelling Bob Mielke, and didn't like the fact that her "Ride Reports" were moved to another forum?

[UFO]

Did Shah write that?  Surprised she didn't spell it "I kwit"  

[atypical1]

What I don't get is that all e-mail systems have spell check these days. Why would you not bother to use it?

james

[goldylocks303]

I have a feeling that was written after a few six packs of beer were consumed.  That would account for the balls to say those kind of things as well as the crazy spelling/grammar.  Damn funny though.  

eD

[jfurf]

I just like saying "One MIIIIIIILLLLION Dollards"  

[olderigetfasteriam]

Sheena......Queen of Spelling

[scottzilla]

The best way I ever quit a job was to drive one hour to work, pull into parking lot, drop bag of uniforms out of car window in full view of boss & coworkers and drive home.
Ah, to be 17 again.

[Flyer]

I have a feeling that was written after a few six packs of beer were consumed.

And maybe one good spliff...

[Tar Snake]

My brother and every other employee and manager at his company got this e-mail yesterday from their now former co-worker. Names will NOT be redacted to protect the innocent.  

02/19/2009 02:44 PM

To
HVH Employees - PA/DE
cc
Subject
I quit



I am the first one of your skilled staff to resign from what is likely
to be the shell of your company. A combination of directors
blackmailing  each other
 and the constant bitching of the manager director / Tricia Burgess
has firced me to considder my postion at this time as being untenable.
An offer of 1 million dollards could not convince me to stay with your
company. a postion of junior goat herder in Mongolia would be more
postive career step , than staying here. what a shame . I have worked
with well with other  but  yet have been criminally overlooked.

Finaly: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys





Sheena Gordon
Closing Specialist
1005 west 9th ave Suite A
King of Prussia, PA 19406
(610)491-2420 ext 1237
Fax: (610)491-2476

PS Can I use you as a reference? thx!

 

[FBRR]

Sheena Gordon
Closing Specialist
colage greduat
txt speshaist BBF
MBA bidnez shool
Divercity +1.5 candidat
worcs wel wid others

I stile cant figur out why she was buy pased for premostions?? hard 2 figur! anothr fine ecample of why industtree is gonig downe the drane. talant runnig out the dore and wurking for dolllards?

[chimera]

An offer of 1 million dollards could not convince me to stay with your
company.

I think she meant to say "dullards".

[atypical1]

PS Can I use you as a reference? thx!

 

You owe me a keyboard  

james

[ctbandit]

was she drunk when she wrote that?

or

Did Shah write that?  Surprised she didn't spell it "I kwit"  

[Baz]

Goat herders in Mongolia do get the most action as he with the most goats wins.

I have actually sent out much worse E mails in drunken rage writing sessions, and it took the guys I worked for 16 years to get around to firing me.

Now that was a dumb bunch of managers.

[BizJetGuy]

She forgot to call management a bunch of morans...

[Blunder]

Prolly hangs out in art museums.

[satxbonneville]

And people say that there's no value in a liberal arts education.  

[Mastros2]

And people say that there's no value in a liberal arts education.  

Haha!  

[Norwegian Blue]

About ten years ago, I worked in the same company with a young man who left to take a job with John McLaughlin of "The McLaughlin Report" (a political shouting heads television show). We were in different departments, so I didn't know him well, but we chatted every now and then.

Less than a year later, he forwarded his resignation letter from that show to his former colleagues. A few days later, it got picked up in the Washington Post's political gossip column. I don't have his full letter, but here's what appeared in the Post:

Shouting head John McLaughlin--the former Jesuit priest whose fame from television's "McLaughlin Group" is nearly equaled by his reputation as one of Washington's more intimidating bosses--has met his match in former employee Shane Ham. When the 27-year-old segment producer walked out on his $52,000-a-year job on Oct. 29, he left behind a remarkable resignation letter.

"I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to work on a television show," wrote Ham, a University of Arizona political science graduate who joined McLaughlin's Oliver Productions at the beginning of the year. "It's unlikely that any legitimate news organization would hire someone with no experience, basing the decision only on a shared passion for dirty jokes about President Clinton. . . . But you also did so much more than that. You allowed me to finally test my limits. Like the heroes of folklore who went on a difficult journey to face down a foul and evil monster, I have stretched my capacity for abuse and denigration as far as I can go. . . .

"You are truly a giant among men, combining the language and temper of Richard Nixon in his prime with the mental capacity of Ronald Reagan in his current state. I am absolutely certain that I will never again meet a grown man who behaves as you do, and I'm grateful for that. In ten long months you and your lovely young wife"--Oliver Productions vice president Cristina Vidal McLaughlin-- "have given me many years' worth of anecdotes with which to amaze and amuse my friends."

Yesterday Ham, who's looking for a less stressful job, acknowledged that he'd heard plenty of stories about the TV host before going on his payroll. But "the difference between hearing stories about John McLaughlin and actually working for him is the difference between watching 'Saving Private Ryan' and landing on D-Day."

McLaughlin told us: "I regret that he doesn't regard his stay with us as a happy one. But I am not about to say, 'Come back, Shane!' "