Archive for the ‘Quitting’ Category

Yikes!

Just read about Evan Culver’s resignation from Mahalo on TechCrunch. Normally an employee leaving a startup isn’t news, but in this case, you get to see what happens when the boss overreacts.

I won’t spoil the surprise, but suffice it to say, after sending a perfectly reasonable resignation note to his boss and coworkers, his manager flipped out.

You have to read it to believe it.

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This makes me sad. Termination should only ever be done face-to-face out of respect for the person being fired.

Best line came from the author:

Might she have left a voice mail?

Humanity is too much for me to take sometimes…

In what can only be described as a great use of social media, (now former) Sun Microsystems CEO announced his resignation to the world via Twitter. And, as an added bonus, it came in the form of a Haiku!

Personally, I really like this move. It’s nice to see high powered executives broadcast their personal thoughts to the world. He seems like a pretty cool guy.

I think if I ever leave my job, I’ll try to do the same thing.