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Prrkitty
11-11-2003, 10:38 PM
Actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers,USA, to her boss, who 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 for you 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 "favorites 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 favorably by the administration.

3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your Mother ' s birthday", 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 sauce 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!

Wishing you a grand and glorious day Cecelia

Ich
11-11-2003, 10:56 PM
I'll never look at sauce bottles the same way again.

gameguy032
11-11-2003, 11:01 PM
Originally posted by ICHBINDASWALROSS
I'll never look at sauce bottles the same way again. I prefer not to even think about that image...
System administrators have a great way to blackmail people, too, I see. And we all pictured them as computer geeks with no life.

I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favorably by the administration. For some, that'd be a great time saver. Yet again, a perk for the system administrator. Though I don't think this one swings that way.

jman2050
11-11-2003, 11:38 PM
NETWORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS RULE!!!

No seriously, the way things are going, network administrators can take over the world in ten years using nothing but blackmail and hacking. Programmers will end up being their right hand mans too *hint hint* :evil:

vegeta1215
11-11-2003, 11:58 PM
::Chris Farley voice:: That...was...awesome!

So is that a real letter of just a joke letter? If it's real, I just gotta say that woman has guts. I don't think I could do that. Sadly, I'll probably be in a situation like that in the future, being a computer science major and all.

linkofzelda1
11-12-2003, 12:13 AM
HAHAHAH!! That's almost as funny as this one my dad wrote. He's a radiologist, and therefore gets a lot of respect, because there is a national shortage of them. He just grabbed that respect and ran with it in his letter of resignation.

Dracula
11-12-2003, 12:16 AM
Whoever wrote that letter has got to have steel balls the size of my head... Wait, that was a woman?! uh... Ovaries?? :eyebrow:

moocow
11-12-2003, 12:17 AM
Originally posted by vegeta1215
[BSo is that a real letter of just a joke letter? If it's real, I just gotta say that woman has guts. I don't think I could do that.[/B]


That's just cause 99.9% of all women are very gutsy, evil and persuasive :)

Master Ghaleon
11-12-2003, 12:57 AM
Woman are evil!! Ill never touch that bottle of A1 in my kitchen ever again ;) Nice letter hehe

TheGeepster
11-12-2003, 02:50 AM
If this is a real letter of resignation, then I would think that it could be used against the person.

I can understand the frustration of the writer (and the reason for leaving), but some things are simply unprofessional..

inori
11-12-2003, 05:29 AM
I've seen this letter before, purportedly from various sources. It's not real... but it's funny.

If you enjoyed this, go hunting around for the Bastard Operator from Hell series. I'd post a link, but I'm lazy, and you all know, or should know, how to use Google.

AlphaDawg
11-12-2003, 02:37 PM
1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you 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.I'm actually thinking of using this tactic. I have a bunch of interviews coming up over the next few days (most of which, I'm pretty sure, would pay me more than I ever made at Commerce), and I want to hear for myself exactly what they are going to say about me. After doing a little research on findlaw.com, I found out there really isn't much they can say without opening themselves to a possible defamation suit. (And should push come to shove, I think I may have a defamation case based solely on how they got rid of me.)

In case you're interested... (http://public.findlaw.com/employment_employee/newcontent/workingwoman/wmnchp8_d.html)

Slider Zero
11-12-2003, 03:14 PM
And Prrkitty comes up with yet another joke that seems to lighten up everyone's day....

....BUt since that is (supposed to be) real, I'd say that this woman has much guts. Too bad I could probably hack her bosses' comp, if what she says about his computer inadequacy is true. :mischief:

Prrkitty
11-12-2003, 03:44 PM
I have no idea whether this is a real or fake letter. If it is... the woman needs an Emmy for her performance. And the boss needs his own "Idiot of the Year" award.

As far as the job references... what she stated is truely legal. My sister-in-law and her husband recently found that out to be fact.

anyway... glad y'all enjoyed :)

TheGeepster
11-12-2003, 07:01 PM
Bastard Operator from Hell is a very funny series of stories about the one guy you don't want to receive attention from, your local Sys Admin!

I do need to look up some of them.. (Warning: BOfH assumes you understand some relatively basic Unix commands, being geared towards geeks with a streak of power-hunger and perhaps a desire for vengeance.)

Ganonator
11-13-2003, 12:14 AM
I'm trying to think how many times in my life that this similar situation has taken place - where some ass thinks he has rightful 'asshole' logistics..

my middle school principal
my high school principal
my school superintendent
my boss at the Recreation Station
my boss at Target
my boss at the Target here

that pretty much sums up every job I've had. It's fucking pointless.