A resignation letter that made the boss sad all night

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After reading this article about the resignation letter that kept the boss awake all night, I remembered another resignation letter I saw a few days ago, so I’d like to share it with you: A Resignation Letter That Made the Boss Sad All Night. Dear Manager,
Hello!
I am very sorry to have to formally submit my resignation to the company at this time. This application is driven purely by personal interest, and nothing else. I want to say \"thank you and I’m sorry\" for not being able to continue working for the company in the future. " 　　I thank the company’s leadership for giving me the opportunity to serve the company. It was here that I began to step into society. Completed my transition from a student to a member of society. I am confident that the experiences I’ve gained at Xinzhengxin and Baofa will be of great benefit to my future career development. 　　The company is currently in need of staff, and I chose to leave, causing inconvenience to the company; for this I truly apologize! But I am convinced that the company will not come to a standstill just because of my departure, nor will the earth stop spinning because of someone leaving. In fact, I don’t want to go; I actually want to stay. Lovers break up because they see through each other. The employee resigned because they could no longer tolerate it! I thought about it for a long time and struggled with myself for quite some time as well. When I was utterly disappointed, the company environment became unsuitable for me, and since I couldn’t change that environment, I had no choice but to leave. Now, let me explain the reasons for my resignation and share some of my thoughts on the company. (1) My position was that of a server in a teahouse. At first, I thought a teahouse was a quiet, comfortable place for conversation. It was only after starting work that I realized I was completely wrong. Our tea house is actually a place that provides office workers with an opportunity to relieve the stresses of life. The guests who come for tea are not really there to taste it; they simply seek a place to vent their emotions. In the teahouse, they show without any restraint their weakest, most ugly, and most genuine sides. What impresses me the most about those guests is their skill at smoking: with a cigarette in their mouth, they can fill an entire room with smoke in no time. In the end, the entire teahouse was surrounded by a misty, gray world. (I’m really worried that living in an environment filled with second-hand smoke for a long time might cause me to die prematurely from lung cancer.) So, in order to avoid causing huge financial losses to the company that would require compensation, I chose to resign. (2) The guests who come to our teahouse can actually be described in one sentence: “The real purpose of their visit isn’t the wine.” ” Over 80% of the guests come for playing cards (mahjong or poker). If it’s just playing cards, I can accept that, but I absolutely cannot tolerate them gambling there. I was already dissatisfied with their behavior, but what annoyed me even more was that they asked us servers to work at that gambling company and keep a close eye on things to help them out. This still remains unbearable for me to this day, so I chose to resign. 　　(3): The customer is king; as a server, no matter how unacceptable the customer’s behavior may be, one must find ways to tolerate it and must never argue with one’s customers. But dear boss, if your employees have already endured for so long and their tolerance has reached its limit, they need to erupt now. Do you want to target the customers, or the company itself? If your answer is the latter, then my resignation letter is meant as a response to that targeting of the company! (4) I majored in management and economics, yet the role I play in the company is limited to recruiting ordinary employees. Actually, my ambition isn’t merely to be a recruiter; as management theory says, \"If a person is not interested in their work, it’s difficult for them to give their full effort to it.\" Doing a job that one doesn’t like is just as painful as marrying a wife who isn’t of one’s interest! I truly understand now how true this saying is. No wonder I feel full of energy at the company, but yet unable to utilize it in any way! If one cannot exert effort at work, then they are redundant in the company as well; and since they are redundant, this is one of the reasons why I decided to leave the company. 　　(5): If a person is not interested in their job, but the salary is high. To some extent, it can also help employees achieve a certain psychological balance. As for me, I earn 700 yuan per month. After deducting the monthly bus fare of 60 (the minimum is 60, but it’s usually more than that), the rent of 180, living expenses of 120, and phone costs of 50, I can have a net income of 290 yuan per month, assuming I don’t buy clothes, don’t go to the doctor when sick, and don’t invite friends out for meals. The annual net income would be 3480 yuan; after ten years, it would be 34,800 yuan; after a hundred years, it would be 348,000 yuan; and after two hundred years, it would be 696,000 yuan. If God is especially kind to me and allows me to live to 200 years old, I can use the salary I’ve earned over those 200 years to buy a mid-range house in the urban area of Nanchang. The company has been so generous to me, and I’m deeply moved; that’s why I decided to resign. As the saying goes: There are always such times when, it is out of love that one quietly steps back; what is avoided is the physical presence, but what cannot be avoided is that silent affection. ……” 　　After saying all this, the company might not like it. There’s even an urge to get angry: “It’s all nonsense, complete nonsense; you get what you sow.” This is an eternal truth! Keep complaining about this or that aspect of the company, but it never ends. Why not look for the reasons within yourself first? Have you really analyzed yourself? You say the company pays you little, but what value have you created for the company? Didn’t you say you have strength but no place to use it? Then, after being in the company for so long, you still haven’t achieved anything remarkable, have you?......” Yes, dear boss. What you reap is always proportional to what you give. I earn such a low salary because that’s all I put in. I admit that after being at the company for so long, I haven’t achieved any outstanding results for it. At the same time, this also indirectly reflects my inability to deliver results. Since I’m incompetent and a good-for-nothing, to avoid further harming the company and continuing to draw salary from it, I voluntarily chose to resign. 　　Dear boss, you might say again, “Do you really have to leave? Young people are sometimes impulsive; after experiencing some hardships, they give up in a fit of passion.” It’s not easy for anyone to start working; it’s difficult at the beginning stage. The key is to have the determination! Young people should think carefully about this; they need to take things step by step and proceed steadily. Look at those successful entrepreneurs – they all faced a lot of difficulties at the beginning, and he lists many examples to illustrate this point. ...As the saying goes: When Heaven is about to confer a great mission on a person, it first tests his resolve, exhausts his muscles and bones, starves his body and skin, and leaves him in dire straits....... ” Dear boss, if this had been said 50 years ago, I might have believed it; but now it’s 50 years later. We advocate hard work, but first let those who work hard have enough to eat. If you can’t even fill your stomach, where will you find the strength to strive? We advocate enduring the pressures of adversity, but we must also learn to remove unnecessary stress from ourselves. I don’t deny the positive effects of adversity, but success does not equate to poverty! If success meant poverty, then wouldn’t all those beggars on the streets be able to become rich people!? Enough about this; there’s nothing more to say. There’s so much to say about the company that I don’t know where to start! Besides, you might not even want to read it! Of course, it’s not my intention to point out the company’s faults. It’s because the company has too many mistakes for me to pick out. But I believe that if a company wants to grow and thrive, the best and fastest way is to have the courage to acknowledge its own shortcomings. Then, strengthen and expand these weaknesses; rather than emphasizing one’s existing strengths every day (in management terms, this is known as the barrel principle – you should be familiar with it). 　　I’m leaving the company now, but that’s not to say it’s completely worthless. Actually, the company does well in some areas! After all, it has also taught me a lot. So, before leaving, I should leave something in return! Below are a few unrefined suggestions from me for the company; if the company thinks they have no value, then just consider them as nonsense. 　　1. Many companies are vigorously implementing people-oriented management, achieving excellent results. However, the human-centered management in our hotel has fallen into a misunderstanding of management. 　　Some people believe that it is too rigid and unfriendly for companies to strengthen institutional management, enforce strict evaluations, and adhere strictly to operating procedures, as this goes against human-centered management. This has almost become a shield for employees who do not strictly abide by rules and regulations; they use humanized management as a catch-all term to put everything under it. In fact, humanized management refers to incorporating more elements of humanity into management in order to reflect its flexible side; however, it by no means means that strict requirements for management can be relaxed, nor does it mean that management evaluation systems can be softened or arbitrarily compromised. Strengthening strict management is the best interpretation of a people-oriented approach, and it represents the greatest care for employees. 　　In a word: Companies should advocate humanized management; it must not be laissez-faire or lenient, let alone arbitrary. If an overemphasis is placed on humanization while lax controls are imposed on employees, humanized management will turn into arbitrary management, causing the company to fall apart. 　　2. Since the company grants the manager this authority, the manager should take responsibility for it, rather than spending all his time with his subordinates. 　　The position of department manager in a company is actually very important, as the manager spends every day with their subordinates. It makes employees think you’re immature! A manager should do things that are more significant and of higher quality. Instead of keeping an eye on subordinates every day over trivial matters. There are some trivial matters you shouldn’t get involved in. Staring at the employees below all day long is after all uncomfortable. 　　3. When an employee makes a mistake, as a manager, one should not just blame and insult them. 　　As a manager, constant criticism and abuse can ruin one’s reputation completely. Besides, accusations and insults don’t solve any problems at all; instead, they only make things worse. It is said that the best and most effective remedy for correcting a person’s mistakes is encouragement and praise. Why doesn’t our manager give it a try? At this point, I start to wonder whether our manager simply doesn’t want to try, or maybe doesn’t understand it at all! 4. As a manager, the goal in a company isn’t to see who is the most popular. 　　A manager is not a pushover; they shouldn’t use leading a team as an excuse to deliberately try to win over every employee. Trying too hard to make everyone like you will only end up making everyone hate you. In a word: there’s no need to be a pushover. In life, it’s enough to let the good people say you’re good, and let the bad people say you’re bad. Trying to say hello to everyone will only give the impression that you’re a naive leader! If everyone says hello – both good people and bad people – then… So, are you a good person or a bad one? Have you thought about it carefully? 5. When a manager is with employees, it’s for work-related matters, it’s professional; a leader in a company has only work-related responsibilities, no personal matters. 　　A leader should act like one; as long as they are with their subordinates, it’s time to work, and they need to be focused. At the same time, leaders must always maintain a certain distance from their employees and uphold their authority. Don’t say in a lofty manner, “Actually, I’m a very approachable leader; at the company I’m the boss, but outside of work we’re all just friends.” ”(Actually, your words are hypocritical; can you really completely separate personal matters from work matters? You know best in your heart.) Since a successful combination of leadership and being close friends doesn’t exist, then please stop worrying about the fact that everyone is friends off the job. Because it’s unnecessary, and it also seems fake! (If you’re going to act, then don’t be human; if you’re going to be human, then don’t act.) (I understand this sentence.) 6. A manager shouldn’t keep mentioning in front of their subordinates that they are a manager and that the company has appointed them as a leader. 　　When a company makes you a leader, the powers it grants you are actually the weakest ones (powers are categorized as weak powers and strong powers). In a company, the rights that are most effective and can best convince employees are often authoritative rights, rather than weak rights. What is strong power? Strong power refers to: “the leadership skills and personal charisma of managers, with an emphasis on internal qualities.” ” And you, you keep mentioning in front of the employees that I’m the leader and that the company has appointed me as a manager. I find this funny. Because you’re telling me: “Actually, my manager is very incompetent and lacks any skills.” I became a manager because of good luck. ” 　　7. As the general manager of a company, one must pay more attention to one’s words and actions, as the general manager represents the company’s reputation. 　　The general manager needs to be different, more professional, and more perfect. After all, leaders are leaders, and employees are employees. So how I long for the general manager to, during his lunch break in Room 1007, be reading a book instead of hanging around with his subordinates playing mahjong. Whether you’re really reading the book or just pretending to do so, it at least makes me feel that you, as a leader, are motivated to improve, and that there is hope and potential for growth under your leadership. 　　8. As a director or founder of a company, one must be more aware of their own importance and always choose the right successor for the company. 　　The directors or founders of a company have a profound impact on its development. Every word and action of these directors or founders, their management philosophy, their attitude toward life, and their style of handling affairs can all very well become part of the company’s corporate culture. Therefore, the company’s managers or founders must make themselves extremely excellent and flawless. (Success requires being different, success requires greater professionalism, success requires perfection.) 9. A company’s directors or founders must also understand that it is not enough to be excellent oneself while having employees who are not at all excellent. 　　Because it are the lowest-level employees, those at the bottom of the hierarchy, who deal directly with customers and provide services to them, not your managers. And employees leave the first impression on customers. If the employees are not excellent, then customers will think the company is not excellent. Therefore, leaders should not only focus on their own improvement; they ought to train their employees to be just as excellent as themselves. Only in this way can the company become stronger, and you can earn more profits. As we come to the end, I would like to share a quote from Han Feizi, which I hope you can use to remind yourself at all times. Han Fei Zi said, “Only suppressing oneself is called ‘fear’; only correcting oneself is called ‘chaos’; only being frugal with oneself is called ‘vile’. 　　Alright, enough talking – it’s giving me a headache just writing this! The resignation letter is complete now. Finally, I hope the management will approve this as soon as possible; please arrange it at an early date (I am eager to leave by December 15th). It would be best to find a company that can arrange for me to leave at a convenient time. Of course, before leaving the company, I will complete the handover of my tasks during the remaining time to ensure a smooth departure. 　　Finally, I hope the company will be able to leverage its strengths and address its weaknesses in its future operations, and wish it prosperity!