Goodbye’ doesn’t have to be a polite word in today’s corporate world. Employees are taking recourse to emotional resignation letters — telling it like it is with anger, frustration, and above all, frankness.
Shoaib A., formerly with a multinational bank, says, “My customer relations management job was reduced to a salesman’s task by my boss. I was so frustrated that when I resigned I didn’t hesitate to be rude.”
IT professional Tarun Bothra adds, “When one of the board members of our company left, he made his disappointments quite clear in a resignation letter that he forwarded to the entire staff. The letter was even published on a gossip website!”
However, experts believe that this is not a good trend. “It’s a small world, whichever field it is, where everyone eventually knows the other, and it takes no time for news to spread. If you have disrespected your organisation once, other bosses might be sceptical about hiring you because of your past. There are better ways of showing discontent than abuse,” says Pramod Kumar, a freelance corporate trainer.
Shoaib A., formerly with a multinational bank, says, “My customer relations management job was reduced to a salesman’s task by my boss. I was so frustrated that when I resigned I didn’t hesitate to be rude.”
IT professional Tarun Bothra adds, “When one of the board members of our company left, he made his disappointments quite clear in a resignation letter that he forwarded to the entire staff. The letter was even published on a gossip website!”
However, experts believe that this is not a good trend. “It’s a small world, whichever field it is, where everyone eventually knows the other, and it takes no time for news to spread. If you have disrespected your organisation once, other bosses might be sceptical about hiring you because of your past. There are better ways of showing discontent than abuse,” says Pramod Kumar, a freelance corporate trainer.
