The Farewell Form Letter

Dear Associate,

I never wanted to do this: to say Goodbye. Yet here I am, and here I go: I write to you today to inform you that I am taking my leave of the Company.

This decision is entirely personal. There are a great many obligations to my family and home that I can ill afford to ignore. When I accepted the offer to head the Video Team in New York, I shut out the protests of my sensibilities, and in the same stroke turned away from my responsibilities.
But now they've had their final say.
It was for me as it was for Robinson Crusoe: "...my ill fate pushed me on with an obstinacy that nothing could resist; and though I had several times loud calls from my reason, and my more composed judgment, to go home...I had no power to do it".

I do not want to say Goodbye; but I must.
It's going to be all right. Just breathe.

In the coming weeks, the following will occur as we transition our working relationship:

1) I will personally introduce you to my successor; 2) I will compile a detailed account of the History and Future of your catalogue; and 3) I will make this as seamless and painless a process as possible.

I thank you for the honor and privilege of your partnership as we traversed this Digital Domain.

We are the pioneers of an Undiscovered Country.
Our successes have only just begun.


Humbly and Sincerely Yours,

The Vincible Man