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Comments On Farewell Email Meme

These are comments on the Farewell Email meme on the blog that may or may not have originated it.

Some edits for language, and I'll try to keep my input to a minimum.

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Anonymous

Posted August 22, 2005 at 11:33 am

Sounds like somebodyā€™s got a case of the MUNDAYS!

Kat

Posted August 22, 2005 at 3:25 pm

Saving it. Hell, Iā€™ll even FORWARD IT.

Freaks me out that my nameā€™s in it, though. Call me?

Anonymous

Posted August 22, 2005 at 9:26 pm

BEST.LETTER.EVER.

Margaret

Posted August 23, 2005 at 7:12 am

Iā€™d like to become a blues singer and call myself Dusty Womb.

Also, your page is mostly satisfactory in hiliarity.

Anonymous

Posted August 23, 2005 at 1:53 pm

Chris, donā€™t listen to Margaret. Sheā€™s just jealous. Margaret, go away.

Anonymous

Posted August 24, 2005 at 12:56 pm

Chris,

The copierā€™s STILL jammed. And it smells like hot buttered @$$ around hereā€¦

Felix.

Anonymous

Posted October 12, 2005 at 2:05 am

it really takes courage to tell the truth, it is a very good letter.

Manuela

Posted January 3, 2006 at 4:36 am

Hey, Iā€™m about to write a farewell letter because of quitting my job. You are speaking from my soul, so your letter will be my inspiration.

Anonymous

Posted February 22, 2006 at 1:31 pm

I love, love, love this friggin letter. Kudos, Chris

Anonymous

Posted April 24, 2006 at 9:31 am

Dude, that was freaking AWESOME. We are so not worthy.

P.S. Found your blog via Smittenā€™s.

Luminus

Posted August 10, 2006 at 11:58 am

Now, if that isnā€™t hilarious I wonder what is.

P.S. Instead of killing myself, iā€™d kill of the whole, entire, complete office.

Tautology intended for effect.

Anonymous

Posted August 30, 2006 at 9:06 am

Found this through Google as I am trying to write my own goodbye email. Is this company Accenture by any chance?

Nisheedhi

Posted October 17, 2006 at 6:24 am

So very hillarious couldnā€™t stop myself forwarding it!

Anonymous

Posted November 1, 2006 at 12:55 am

Very very nice. I might have to post it next to our very own copier from hell.

Anonymous

Posted November 9, 2006 at 1:10 am

I think this is just simply ā€˜wickedā€™. Loved every bit of itā€¦

yuvaraj

Posted December 26, 2006 at 1:44 am

I have posted the same mailā€¦.Was looking for a farewell email in google and this is the best one that suits my current situation and the reason why i resigned. Hats off to the creatorā€¦.

Anonymous

Posted February 2, 2007 at 4:25 am

An Irish Ernst and Young employee made the headlines using this letter!!

http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/9796675?view=Eircomnet

Anonymous

Posted February 7, 2007 at 1:01 pm

yeah - what a tosser. I was privy to it a few days ago and suggested someone simply google a few of the cliched statements betting that it would have come straight off the net. No-one so stupid could be so eloquent and inventiveā€¦.

Anonymous

Posted February 8, 2007 at 5:49 am

Hey! This is Gr8. I am impressed. Each word seems true!

Anonymous

Posted February 17, 2007 at 6:39 am

This guy just ruined his chances of being trusted at any job he ever works at. Keep your hamgod demn mouth shut and move on.

Anonymous

Posted February 17, 2007 at 8:10 am

In the words of xkcd.com:

FLARE. THAT. CR@P.

Anonymous

Posted February 17, 2007 at 3:28 pm

Can I have your stuff?

WilloWisp

Posted February 18, 2007 at 4:44 am

Been there, done that. Great email!

Anonymous

Posted February 19, 2007 at 1:54 pm

How bout you come up with your own material rather than stealing from others!!! Hack!!!!!

Gavin

Posted February 21, 2007 at 11:19 am

great letter, but my money is on it being fake.

Anonymous

Posted March 2, 2007 at 6:03 am

I have the unfortunate habit of telling the truth and I have the uncanny ability can seeing where projects are going to run into snags, I tell the managers hoping the managers would be pleased to know this and search for a solution, yes I am a gullable 53 years old idealist. I still wonder why I have no friends or family who acknowledge my existence.

You see I have just been suspended from a PGCE course because I told my school mentor that he was not IMHO doing a good job, but rather than the Uni or school look at my constructive critism it is much easier to suspend me because they can then go back to their king with no clothes imaginary world. Or is it me who is living in the real world hoping for an imaginary one. I hope not!

Anonymous

Posted March 16, 2007 at 2:21 am

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Dan Bodenheimer

Posted April 5, 2007 at 11:00 am

Congratulations for making Snopes!

Anonymous

Posted April 7, 2007 at 2:36 am

Yeah, the pinheads in my office used to eat my clearly labeled food too, until after I brought in my dog food pizza, clearly labeled as a sausage pizza. The next day it was gone, so I wrote an email to everyone, ā€œHope you liked my dog food pizza.ā€ My boss was pretty p|$$ed. Whaa haa hahahaha!

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Ocean Elf: At this point, I must cut in with:

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

Back to the otherwise IMO mostly annoying comments.

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Anonymous

Posted April 7, 2007 at 4:28 pm

Anonymous,

Could have been different had there been ā€œFun Fudgeā€ (Brownies with grass).

prez

Posted April 11, 2007 at 10:21 am

The AWE to the S to the OME.

Anonymous

Posted April 20, 2007 at 7:39 pm

PC Load letterā€¦ what the @#$% does that mean??????

Anonymous

Posted May 5, 2007 at 1:00 pm

GREAT. WONDERFUL. SUPERB. PERFECT. Sadly, the ignoramuses I work with WOULD take the time to argue it to death . . .

The Mushroom

Posted May 21, 2007 at 5:08 pm

Wonderfulā€¦ wish I would have had this when I was given the bumā€™s rush out of a major ISPā€™s tech support dept, which didnā€™t remove my permissions to post an all-staff until the next day. (They got my goodbye letter in quadruplicate, seems the form didnā€™t like my browser but sent it anywayā€¦)

You made it to Tech Support Comedy where many of us feel or have felt the same way.

Chad

Posted June 29, 2007 at 7:27 am

The white trash imbeciles at my former place of employment wouldnā€™t even understand half the letter, let alone pick up on its delicious humor. I have half a mind to send it to all of them, in spite of the fact that I left that godforsaken place six months ago. Yes, the bitterness and vitriol still course through my veins. I want karmic revenge, dammit!! Kudos on this - it made my day.

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Ocean Elf: "White trash"? You stink.

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Anonymous

Posted July 11, 2007 at 5:16 am

This mail is from an ex-JPMorgan employee, its true..

GuNs

Posted August 6, 2007 at 6:08 am

ROTFLMAO, this IS funny.

Can you btw, think up an equally funny response to this letter?

-PeAcE

ā€“WiTh

ā€”GuNs

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Ocean Elf: Hmmm. Maybe I should try my hand at that besides the straight mangle! Hmmm, think I will!

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jamal

Posted August 8, 2007 at 11:04 pm

wahā€¦ wonderfull butā€¦ tooo long.. but so boringggā€¦.have another shortest but more complex??

secprob

Posted August 29, 2007 at 9:24 am

hereā€™s a good farewell sent last week:

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/08/27/the-farewell-email-to-end-all-farewell-emails/

It went out at Christieā€™s, that big British auction house

secprob

Posted August 29, 2007 at 9:27 am

During my nearly six years here at Christieā€™s, I have come to conclude that farewell emails are a lot like those boring Academy Award speeches where they thank everyone under the sun. In these emails everyone just babbles on and on with the same old euphoric poppycock; read one, read ā€˜em all. Well, you wonā€™t be able to include this email in that group.

And so it is really here before me; my departure from the ā€˜Worldā€™s Leading Art Businessā€™ and all of its contaminated corporate splendor. I announce this without hesitation, or regret and I donā€™t expect that most of you to have already known I was leaving.

I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation for those I have worked with in the Photographs Department: Laura, Stuart, Sarah, Elizabeth and Ashley. The are the best and most dedicated in their field and I wish them continued success. I would also like to thank all of the dedicated Art Handlers and Attendants I have represented as Shop Steward - they are the backbone of the company and deserve everyoneā€™s respect!

I feel it is best to quickly express my fondest appreciation for some of the endearing ideas that I have seen peddled around me: like how everyone seems to be replaceable, thinking outside of the box is liken to heresy, favoritism is thicker than water and speaking the truth gets you into trouble.

For the snakes in the grass that covertly sent the message a few years ago that I was being ā€˜perceived as a trouble makerā€™ and I that I should leave Christieā€™s ā€“ I thank you wholeheartedly for that uplifting gift.

A moment should be taken to note the optimism that once existed after we unionized only to see it squashed by a culture of harassment that has since permeated and fostered.

It would be shameless of me not to let the powers that be know my deep gratitude for eliminating most of the older Art Handlers internet access. God knows what treacherous and deviant websites you have kept us from visiting - thanks!

But most of all, I would like to thank this bold and majestic company for taking someone who actually liked the business ā€“ someone who could have seen themselves staying here, giving their all and making them feel totally miserable to the point where they had to send an email like this before they left.

Finally I would like to applaud the wonderful decision to install that brilliant new carpeting on the 5th & 6th floors and my dismay that I wonā€™t see it completely installedā€¦ā€¦.

Jason

Anonymous

Posted December 5, 2008 at 7:05 am

He||, I just used this!!

Troo

Posted December 29, 2008 at 10:35 pm

Just found this thru snopes. Freaking BRILLIANT!!!

P.S. Is it weird of me that Iā€™m especially fond of the ā€œdetecting your flatulenceā€ line?

Anita Rane

Posted February 22, 2009 at 9:13 pm

Yes. He|| YES.

I wrote a farewell mail too. Not as good as yours. But it created a ruckus in the office after I left.

check it out on my blog!

B

Posted February 23, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Hey, you just made an LA Times article

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Read the meme along with the mangling, and then my counter. Thanks to a comment above for giving me the idea to write one.

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