Dear Boss, I’m herby turning in
My note of resignation
It’s been great but I’m overwhelmed
By other obligations
And wearing proper clothes just really
Isn’t quite my style
And I haven’t seen an episode
Of Oprah in a while
I’m strengthening old relationships
And getting reconnected
Like yesterday my couch told me
It felt a bit neglected
There’s been highlights of my career
I’m sad to leave this place
Like when you tripped in the brake room and
You fell flat on your face
Or when Jan from accounting came in
Looking all composed
She didn’t know her skirt was tucked
Into her panty hose
Guess you’ll need time to find someone
Right to fill my position
I’d love to say I’ll stick around
To make a smooth transition
But I must binge watch Game of Thrones
And catch up on my napping
So let’s be real we both know that
That just ain’t gonna happen
A fond farewell I bid, guess that about
Does it here for me
(As I hover on the Smith files and
Hit the delete key)
Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth 
Ha-ha. You crack me up
I’ll take that!
Oh well, when I read your words I see you sitting at your desk and gazing out of the window.
Well, it’s funny you say that because you know how bored at work I am. Unfortunately, I work in a warehouse and can not see the outside at all from my office. The funny thing though, is that I’m in an enclosed office within the warehouse that actually has a window but the view from the window is just the rest of the warehouse.
Anyway, this poem isn’t so autobiographical. My job’s not bad, just boring…
Ha…. that way you get a lot of inspiration, I guess, when you watch the people out there. Yes, I said that because I know that you are bored at times and that your thoughts might drift away like you wrote… haha!
lol, Coward! 🙂
Coward? Is that for my discreetly hitting the delete key rather than just telling my boss he’s an idiot out right?
Just a joke, you did right,
I have also been overwhelmed with other obligations, ha ha. I love the e – card it totally captures the essence of the resignation 🙂
Thanks Lana! I thought it was rather appropriate.
I wish it were that easy! I’d love to hit delete and say goodbye. God knows my Rickenbacker has been quite lonely. 😉
Yeah, really! How awesome with that be? Just a small matter of money but… oh well!
The matter of money – yeah, what a bane! lol
Hilarious as usual! Absolutely love it! 😀
Thank you!
Haha, that letter we write everyday…note to self, remember to always hit delete! Awesome, Marissa!
Yes, and clear your browsing history! Ha, ha!
Oh yeah, forgot about that…lol!!
Is this a true story?
Well, yes and no. Of course I’ve had employers who I would have loved to send this letter to but my current employers are pretty okay. The thing about the delete key though…I once worked for a guy who was pretty hard to work for and there was another girl in the office who just got frustrated and left one day, but not before completely deleting one of our databases.
Ouch!! I had interpreted the ending to be an act of malicious destruction before leaving. You weren’t kidding!!
I must admit though, more than a few times I was tempted to toss a lit match onto my desk and just walk away.
There’s someone here shouting “Do it, do it!” over and over again, but it isn’t me!
Thankfully I managed to retire before I succumbed to the voices 😉
Good for you!
Not to mention the fact that I wouldn’t care to cool my jets in jail for arson 😉
Hahaha! May I borrow this letter when that day comes for me?
That’s what it’s here for!
I like it! Quitting work and watching a Game of Thrones marathon. It doesn’t get much better than that
Right, not until you find you’ve run out of Doritos and can’t afford anymore…and then, oh yeah, the cable goes out.
I wouldn’t wish that hell on anyone.
I was with a chum one lunchtime some years back and ahead of us in the High Street was indeed a gal as you described, ‘She didn’t know her skirt was tucked into her panty hose’ – replace panty hose with skimpy knickers. We debated if we should tell her then thought better of it gentlemen that we were!
Of course! Sounds like a win win situation to me!
I must confess I rather thought so…besides if I had told her there was every liklehood she’d have slapped me round the face regardless! So yes, ‘a win/win’!
Of course!
Your poems are always such a pleasure to read. They invariably put a huge smile on my face. Your sense of humour is unique and a godsend 😀
Ah, a very kind compliment. Thanks Geetha!
Welcome. I really like them. The humour is always witty and the view of other human beings is full of keen critical observing yet not without compassion
Hysterical. The bunch up pantyhose – classic. On a side note: I once handed in my resignation on a napkin.
Now THAT is classic!
This is a very creative method for turning in your resignation! I think we should all strive to be more unique in the ways we quit our jobs – think of all the various methods that could be used! Singing, rapping, interpretive dance, carrier pigeon, the list goes on.
Yeah, I think at that point I would just not be welcome to come back at all. Does the interpretive dance include waving your middle finger while swaying to Yanni?
I think it could! I mean, the message there isn’t terribly subtle, but there’s no rule against obvious interpretive dance. Not to my knowledge, anyway…
Right, as long as you’re not stripping while you’re at it.
Yeah, that’d be a completely different message haha 😀
Was it worse than binge watching Oprah?
If given a choice between working and binge watching Oprah, I’m sure most would choose the latter. At least you can watch Oprah in your jammies while eating chips.
I have filed this away for any future needs. I’m pretty sure this is the proper way to write a resignation letter. I trust you implicitly.
Oh yes, it is! Trust me!
At least you give a resignation letter, I have a horrid history of phantom behavior.
I remember one when I was about 17, calling my job from a pay phone in the city to tell them I wouldn’t be coming in anymore. I didn’t bother explaining, and I didn’t officially work for quite some time after that.
Hilarious, the its not you its me. I think the last official job I went for, said I could drive a manual and almost drove the boss into a tree.
Ha, ha! Yes, you have to be careful about the extent to which you lie in an interview!
Oh I can drive manual, just not in a car as old as my nana , which has a gearbox mind of its own !
I once quit a job by going to lunch. I did not return. Come to think of it. I think I’m still on that lunch break.
Ha, ha! If the place is still open you should probably go back there rubbing your belly and saying ‘that was some lunch!’
LOL.
This was really hilarious, Marissa. How on earth you figure out the rhythm and cadence plus figure out how to rhyme words like “napping” and “happen?!”
So fully appropriate for my warehouse friends and me. We feel we are doing our bosses a “favor” by just showing up to work. One of my younger friends, Marshall has a coffee mug in one hand and tucked under his arm, a newspaper at our morning exercise meeting. Purpose to get all limbered up before we work 10 hours, as if ten minutes of exercise will prevent carpal tunnel.
Getting the rhyming and cadence right is called scanning in poetic terms. It’s a work in progress for me.
Good luck to you and your co-workers and really everyone dealing with a difficult job and boss!
I am grateful for telling me what you call cadence in writing poetry. Scanning is so cool! You do this well, Marissa.
Thank you Robin!
this might be a letter many would be looking for… :)))
Hmmm…think there might be money in it?
Aye matey… what about an auction…:))
Ha ha..Marissa. loved it
Thanks Nimi!
Ha! So funny! I like that the boss’s fall wasn’t in vain after all- everything you see through that window is potential material!
Oh yes, this one was actually inspired by a couple of different blogs and blogversations I’ve had in the past few days not to mention a post I saw. I should have probably given a shout out to all that inspired!!
Blogversations 😊
I’ve quite very few jobs
They were all heated goodbyes
Great one Marissa
Yeah, it seems like it never ends well.
Timely and wickedly wonderful as usual! I am SO tempted to cut, paste, and send…but, alas…I have a flower habit to support.
Are you a Game of Thrones watcher?!?!? As if I could adore any more than I already do 🙂
Yes, money is the thing, isn’t it? Oh well, it may just be worth it!
I actually do not watch Game of Thrones. I am sadly out of touch on movies and television shows. My children dictate my TV watching so…
*g8ggles* Can you image IF a letter like this was ever given to a boss? OMGOSH! I giggled all the way through this one, Marissa. Please do get reacquainted with that couch. I highly recommend it while watching movies. 😉
Yes, I mean, we had something beautiful…me and the couch! Stupid work!!
GRIN! Don’t I know! I work TOO much! And when I begin my LOVE affair with my couch I covet it. LOL
Giggling! Especially at the ending 😉
Glad you enjoyed.
Vaguely deciding this should be my actual resignation letter. I wasn’t planning to resign, but since you put it so eloquently…
I know, just kind of irresistible, don’t you think?
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
OH DEAR—SAY ITISN’T SO!
Have you ever heard THE BOSS’ LAMENT?
Is that a thing? Because if it is, then no, I have not.
A song i heard from performers when I was in college. I’d sing it for you, but my fingers don’t type that fast! Maybe I can find it!
Okay, if you can let me know.
See my latest “BOOK REPORT” which includes from memory, the words to the song I remember…at least the first and last verses! 😀
Close enough!
If there was a middle verse…I’ve forgotten it. 😦
Oh well…
Very good! I love the card you picked 🙂
Always pursue your dreams!
Yes, for sure!
Reblogged this on Sonali- My way of treating life and life's way of treating me and commented:
Loved reading it!
Thank you for reblogging! I’m glad you liked it!
hahahaha this is absolutely brilliant!! So perfect!!!
Thank you!
You’re welcome!