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- This was an actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex
- Computers, USA to his boss. His boss apparently resigned very soon
- afterwards!
-
-
- Dear Mr Baker,
-
- As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few
- very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have
- an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your
- consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and myself during the
- commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few
- true genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a network administrator, to
- explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to
- stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of
- precious oxygen.
-
- I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you
- were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees,
- who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste"
- for the hundredth time. You will never understand computers. Something as
- incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also
- never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it
- to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you
- what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
-
- You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault
- in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have
- worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility,
- you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your
- glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the
- blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you
- are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle.
-
- Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a
- full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation,
- however I have a few parting thoughts.
-
- 1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal
- to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I
- prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next
- couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do
- it on your own.
-
- 2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I
- know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide
- to get cute, I am going to publish your "favourites list", which I
- conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do
- believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favourably by the
- administration.
-
- 3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your
- mothers b-day", you neglected to mention that you were going to take
- pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like
- the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such
- odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied
- and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of
- recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct
- your mistakes.)
-
- Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on
- my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your
- little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f***
- with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all
- that free time!
-
- Sincerely
- Darryl Brewer.
-
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