Last day on the job meme1/5/2024 ![]() My #1 rule is ALWAYS BE PROFESSIONAL! Be professional before you are employee, be professional as you work there, be professional as you leave. You don't know that some of these people may be your coworkers or even managers at some point in the future and your unprofessional actions may reflect poorly on you in a future job or interview. Of the memes you posted NONE of them are professional in any way and they will reflect badly on YOU. If you have had a close working relationship with a few coworkers, you might send a short and simple email with a personal email address or a LinkedIn profile if they would like to stay in touch but beyond that, refrain from such behavior regardless of how badly you feel the need! Don't even send a blast email because most people at the company don't care that you're leaving and probably don't even know you. That means you don't send such memes or ranting emails or anything of that nature. The key principle here is to BE PROFESSIONAL as you leave. But joking about stealing from your company or having sabotaged them on the way out the door is completely inappropriate, and could end very badly for you. If you want to share something light-hearted in your leaving email, then that's fine. What exactly are you trying to imply with it? Because it would be very easy to read that as saying that you've sabotaged something, or failed to do proper handover, and you're expecting the place to burn down (metaphorically) after you leave.Īnd while that might be an amusing joke to share with a few co-workers, what happens if something actually goes wrong after you've left? If a sysadmin left a company having shared that kind of image in their final email, and then the next week a load of servers go down or the company gets hit by ransomware, how does that email get interpreted by senior management? Is it just a joke, or is it an admission that you've screwed them over? Are you absolutely sure that your former co-workers, manager and senior staff in your company will see it the same way you do, especially when they're looking for someone to blame for problems who can't easily defend themselves? While it's not massively likely that it will have unpleasant ramifications in the future (the most likely outcome is that it will be forgotten entirely) the chances are still non-zero and there is precisely nothing positive to be gained by doing so.ĭepending on the exact contents of what you send, you could be opening yourself up to a world of hurt doing something like this. Should a person doing this encounter a former colleague again in their professional life do you think it's more likely they will remember these memes and think "Oh yeah, that's a great person they posted some classic memes when they left" or that they will think "Hmm there's a question mark over this person's maturity and professionalism"? The content of all the given examples reflect badly on the person sharing them IMO. Rubbish like this from fourteen year olds is not any better of course - it's just people will accept that they perhaps don't know any better and will cut them some slack. ![]() Unless for some reason you happen to be fourteen and the company you're leaving happens to be exclusively staffed by other fourteen year-olds.
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