8 messages · 4 tones

Retirement Wishes for Direct Reports

8 messages written for direct reports specifically, across 4 tones. Every one is ready to copy as it stands, or to adapt.

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Retiring Team MemberWarm
35w · 205c

From the manager of a retiring report

“Managing someone with more experience than you have is supposed to be awkward, and you made it straightforward from the first week. Thank you for the generosity in that. Enjoy every part of the retirement.”

Best for: Manager writing to a retiring member of their team.
Retiring Team MemberFormal
35w · 210c

Formal acknowledgement of long service

“On behalf of the team, thank you for many years of reliable and skilled work. Your contribution has outlasted several reorganizations and every one of our systems. We wish you a long and comfortable retirement.”

Best for: Formal departmental letter marking long service.
Retiring SpecializtLight Humor
32w · 183c

The handover document nobody could write

“We asked you to write a handover document and received something closer to a reference book. Thank you for that, and for the twenty years that made it necessary. Enjoy the retirement.”

Best for: Retiring specializt whose knowledge was hard to replace.
Retiring Team MemberWarm
36w · 177c

Managing someone more experienced

“You had done this job for longer than I had been in the industry and never once made that a problem. Thank you for the grace of that. Enjoy a retirement with no handovers in it.”

Best for: Manager writing to a retiring report with far more experience.
Retiring SpecializtFormal
35w · 206c

Formal recognition of long service

“On behalf of the department, thank you for many years of expert and dependable work. The standards you set have outlasted several restructures and will outlast this one. We wish you a very happy retirement.”

Best for: Formal departmental letter for a long-serving specializt.
Retiring ReportShort
16w · 77c

Brief note from a manager

“Thank you for everything, over rather a lot of years. Go and enjoy all of it.”

Best for: Short managerial line in a retirement card.
Retiring Team MemberWarm
31w · 169c

The last day of a long run

“Forty years of turning up, doing it properly, and not making a fuss about either. That is the whole job, done well, for a very long time. Congratulations, and thank you.”

Best for: Retiring team member with a very long tenure.
Retiring ColleagueLight Humor
32w · 182c

On the leaving do

“We have been asked to keep the speeches short, which given your career is going to require some fairly brutal editing. Congratulations on the retirement, and thank you for all of it.”

Best for: Retirement where the leaving do is the main event.

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