Meg’s uncanny curatorial ability to uncover the silver lining in any situation was woefully under-appreciated at her last job, but even her former coworkers had to admit that this farewell e-mail was an impressive excavation of meg’s latent passive-aggressive tendencies.
Hi all, Due to Museum restructuring, my position has been terminated today. After seeing five other staff members voluntary departures from the Museum recently. I know this change is a step in the right direction for me. On to bigger, better galleries and museums with organized management and high-paying salaries!!! It has been a pleasure working with some of you more than others (you know who you are)! Cheers, Meg
related: This shit is bananas
(I hope, anyway. Brain is fried and I may not make any sense to anyone but myself.)
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#1
Canthz_B
Totally illegible for me.
Click on it, it gets better!
She could have just said: “Everyone here I like has left, I found a better paying job with smart managers so I’m outta here too, Suckers…you know who you are.”
Oct 14, 2008 at 6:31 pm rating: 7
#2
0falcon8
sounds like the PANseum has a new curator
Oct 14, 2008 at 6:39 pm rating: 11
#3
Canthz_B
Meg was not laid-off, she was liberated from the shackles of a steady job.
She is now free to soar to the unemployment office.
Oct 14, 2008 at 6:40 pm rating: 29
#4
aaa
Meg’s farewell email an impressive display of latent passive aggressive tendencies? Her former coworkers must not have high standards (and they know who they are).
Oct 14, 2008 at 7:32 pm rating: 5
#5
Wade
Meg’s prospective new employer to former co-workers: So, what can you tell us about Meg.
Former co-workers: Here’s her farewell email.
Meg’s unlikely new employer: No further questions.
Oct 14, 2008 at 7:41 pm rating: 18
#6
Quite Contrary
museums=high paying salaries
meg=delusional
Oct 14, 2008 at 7:42 pm rating: 36
#7
JoelWhy
I hear they need a new curator at North Dakota’s Museum of Great Turnip Farmers.
Oct 14, 2008 at 7:43 pm rating: 2
#8
HS
later, suckers!
Oct 14, 2008 at 7:45 pm rating: 0
#9
secondsout
I bet it was Graham with whom it was less than a pleasure to work. Fuck that guy!
Oct 14, 2008 at 7:51 pm rating: 5
#10
Troy McClure
Today my employ here is through
And I’m gonna miss (some of) you
But I’ll find a nice gallery
That pays a high salary
With organised management too
Oct 14, 2008 at 8:03 pm rating: 56
#11
secondsout
Meg got dropped from this museum, yet she thinks that the bigger, higher-paying, more organized museums are just begging for her? Suuuuure…
Oct 14, 2008 at 8:03 pm rating: 6
#12
claw71
Meg’s not passive aggressive at all, just optimistic. In a few months she’ll be sending similar letters to her landlord when she’s evicted and her bank after they repo her car. Eventually, when she’s gang raped by a family of CHUDs, she’ll be just as chipper.
Oct 14, 2008 at 8:33 pm rating: 8
#13
MsUnreliable
It has been a pleasure working with some of you more than others (you know who you are). The rest of you smell like cheese. Yes, cheese. And not the good kind.
Oct 14, 2008 at 8:36 pm rating: 11
#14
Jones
Meg honey, I think the difference you may not be seeing is that the 5 other people left on their own…their position was not terminated.
Oct 14, 2008 at 8:43 pm rating: 13
#15
secondsout
What do you bet that Meg’s job is open again a week after she got laid off?
Oct 14, 2008 at 8:43 pm rating: 9
#16
snee
bye all,
they finally fired my ass.
you suck,
meg
Oct 14, 2008 at 8:53 pm rating: 18
#17
Walrus
I have worked in the museum business and I just facebooked this for my museum friends (they know who they are). They are gonna be jealous that Meg is getting a museum job that is organized and high paying… wait a minute…
Oct 14, 2008 at 9:45 pm rating: 13
#18
Halley
terminating Meg’s position was fucking delicious.
Oct 14, 2008 at 10:00 pm rating: 1
#19
Jade
Nice Rilo Kiley reference in the title!
Oct 14, 2008 at 10:31 pm rating: 3
#20
laureneliz
hooray, hooray … i’m your silver lining
Oct 14, 2008 at 10:54 pm rating: 2
#21
Dare
Did no one else notice the “Ciao” in the subject? With foreign language skills like Meg’s, she is definitely destined for employment in higher paying and organizationally managed museum institutions…
Oct 15, 2008 at 8:46 am rating: 3
#22
maude
Oh man, if you’re gonna go out like that, go for the gold! None of this pussyfooting. She’s got the right idea but she could’ve taken it so much further. I guess that’s what makes it passive-aggressive.
Oct 15, 2008 at 9:35 am rating: 1
#23
Goldie
WTF is a high-paying salary?
Oct 15, 2008 at 9:35 am rating: 4
#24
Goldie
Seriously I am in awe of Meg. I’ve seen enough “I found another job” farewell emails circulating around offices, and believe me it is easy to screw that one up, too. In one case, the sender of a botched farewell email was escorted out the door two weeks before his actual farewell date.
But freakin WOW, I have never seen an “I got canned” farewell email. Truth be told, I don’t even have it in me to poke fun at poor Meg. It is a bad situation to be in, and acting a lil unstable is understandable. Heck, who knows how I would behave if I were given the pink slip. You only have fifteen minutes to go down in flames. What would I do with my fifteen minutes? I have no idea. Maybe I’d run around the office screaming obscenities, kicking select coworkers in the crotch. You know who you are.
Oct 15, 2008 at 10:10 am rating: 17
#25
notreallyclawsunderpants_misheesbra
I would pay to see the email that got someone drug out 2 weeks early.
Oct 15, 2008 at 10:23 am rating: 4
#26
GhostWriter
“Of all the people that I am going to miss, I think I’ll miss you, animated mannequin of Teddy Roosevelt, the most!”
Oct 15, 2008 at 10:36 am rating: 3
#27
Dare
In my office, we’re so passive aggressive that while my boss is taking the to-be fired employee into the conference room to drop the bomb, I am locking out the employees network IDs and backing up all of their data…
It always grates on me when I have to do that.
Oct 15, 2008 at 10:40 am rating: 3
#28
Susan
My last day at my job is this Friday. Now I have the sendoff email I have been looking for!
Oct 15, 2008 at 10:55 am rating: 2
#29
Joanna
Hahahahahahahahahahaha I love this site.
Oct 15, 2008 at 11:19 am rating: 1
#30
claw71
Ok people, here’s the way it works:
If you get fired the company wins. You can send out all the PA emails you want but at the end of the day the company cut you loose because you meant much less to them than they meant to you.
If you do quit and you decide to pour all of your venom into a parting shot that you send just before you head out the door you only prove that you were a gutless punk who didn’t have the stones to speak his/her mind when it mattered. In short, you saved the company the trouble of putting you out on the street.
I’ve worked in HR and I’ve seen plenty of last words sent out by people like this. The funny thing is that everybody who gets the email shares the same sentiment: good riddance.
Oct 15, 2008 at 11:36 am rating: 5
#31
jenny
Seconded on loving the post title!
Oct 15, 2008 at 12:44 pm rating: 1
#32
bobby
Maybe she worked a “museum” and is now off to work at a museum. Which would pay higher.
Oct 15, 2008 at 2:53 pm rating: 1
#33
Michal-Lynn
Rilo Kiley, FTW!
Oct 15, 2008 at 10:32 pm rating: 1
#34
jabberwock
Awesome. In a few sentences, she gives everyone a good laugh, and answers that niggling question in her coworkers’ minds: “Why did they choose *Meg* in the layoff?”
Oct 16, 2008 at 9:46 pm rating: 0
#35
Mudhooks
“galleries and museums with organized management and high-paying salaries”
I wonder how Meg likes folding shirts at The Gap… in Dreamland?
Nov 10, 2008 at 10:50 pm rating: 0
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