10 messages written for colleagues specifically, across 4 tones. Every one is ready to copy as it stands, or to adapt.
← All farewell messages“Working alongside you has been one of the quiet highlights of my time here. You brought steady judgement, good humor, and genuine care to every difficult deliverable. The next team is exceptionally lucky to have you. Please stay in touch.”
“Thank you for the shared deadlines, the straight answers, and for never once making a bad week worse. Good luck over there.”
“I am genuinely happy for your brilliant new role, even though I am officially filing a grievance regarding who will now give me the knowing look during our marathon status calls. Congratulations—you have earned every bit of this.”
“Congratulations on your move to the platform team. Our groups have shared enough deadlines for me to know exactly what they are gaining. I have valued your rigour and your willingness to be disagreed with, and I look forward to working with you across the new boundary.”
“Leaving a job you are good at to go and learn something harder is not the easy option, and it is very you. Thank you for three years of straight answers, and for never once making a junior person feel small in a review. Go and be excellent at the new thing.”
“Thank you for the handovers that actually explained things, and for the honesty in every retro. Good luck on Monday.”
“You are leaving, and with you goes the only living knowledge of why that job runs at four in the morning. I have made my peace with this. Genuinely though, congratulations, and thank you for a very good few years.”
“We have worked together across five time zones and never once been in the same room, and you are still one of the people I trust most here. Thank you for the early calls and the patient explanations. I hope our paths cross properly one day.”
“Thank you for your work on the migration. You joined in the middle of a difficult program, learned it quickly, and are leaving the documentation in better condition than you found it. I would gladly work with you again on a future engagement.”
“Walking away from something you are demonstrably good at, to go and do something you actually want, takes a kind of nerve most of us keep meaning to find. Congratulations. Tell us how it goes.”
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