Le righe
- Thirty-one years. You trained half this floor, including me, badly at first.
- You made the call on the Fresno account in 2018 that saved us.
- Sending this three weeks after your last day, when the house has gone quiet.
- Congratulations. Don't answer the phone if it's this number.
- The place will be slower without you, which is the highest compliment available.
- You never once took credit for something that wasn't yours. I noticed every time.
- Twenty-two years and you still learned the new system faster than the interns.
- Enjoy the first Monday. Then call me on the third one.
- You were the reason I stayed in 2016.
- Thank you for telling me the truth in my first review. I've built a career on it.
- Go be bored. You've earned an entire boring year.
- We'll get it wrong constantly now and think of you every time.
If you only remember one thing
Short and specific beats long and general. “I still think about you driving me to the airport at five in the morning” does more work than three sentences of sympathy, because only you could have written it.