What are your thoughts on sending out company/region-wide farewell slack messages when quitting? What’s a good way to announce but not be annoying in this remote world? I was gonna do an Irish goodbye but felt that was a little disrespectful.

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Please don’t. Send an email to the people that you know, the rest of us don’t care.

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Those people can delete the message. Very simple.

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Why stop at region-wide? Go big bebe

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All-BCG announce list, and somehow start a reply all chain 😅

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Last job i left i didnt send anything. My leadership iced me out so fk em lol.

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Same experience when I left Guidehouse! I didn’t send a goodbye email to anyone because I was just happy to be leaving a toxic environment. Instead I just shipped my laptop back and disappeared into the night. 😂

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Just get a filter to sort them out of your inbox if you don’t care! Think it’s important to calibrate on where people are going after BCG. I love seeing them so I can add people that leave for cool exits on LinkedIn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tacky. PM the people you want to tell personally and let the rest figure it out from word of mouth or your LinkedIn update.

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Why? You’ll spoil your inevitable biopic

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I really hate that people announce their departure but I would just send an email to the people who you’ve worked with. No need to clog other people’s inboxes to annoy them when they don’t even know who Brad-Chad-Smith is…

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Connect with the people who are meaningful to you on LinkedIn. Keep it a short and sweet goodbye to that group only.

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I will be like: Dracarys, motherf*****. Thanks for not promoting me. Dragon-fire, dragon-fart. Khaleesi is out, bye.

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I love hearing when people have left and where they’re going.

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What’s the obsession with farewell messages? I am about 20 years into my career and I don’t remember these ever being a thing until relatively recently. Maybe it’s more common among the younger, social media-obsessed crowd who all think they’re characters in their own personal reality shows.

Say goodbye to the people you’re closest to. Update your LinkedIn profile to inform the rest. Move on with your life.

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Ummm farewell emails are a kind gesture

Do it but to a select group of people who should know you're leaving, would like to know, or you want to know. Generally, this includes people you've worked with and had a good relationship with. Nothing long and sappy or hateful. No long thank yous. When I left, I sent a short email and then included a bulleted list of 7 things that people never knew about me. If you took the first letter of each sentence, it spelled L A I D O F F.

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I like getting the emails. I read them, delete them, skim them…I have the choice and find some of them genuinely interesting. I tend to ignore the thank you part. Not sure I would like getting them out on Slack. Unless you plan to write one line! In terms of the expression used to describe leaving without saying goodbye. Completely right that it was called out.

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Is this a serious question coming a BCGer?! 😂

And usually details on where they’re headed next. Coming in as a lateral I found (and still find) it completely bizarre and a waste of hundreds of people’s time

Or you could just put your out of office reply on at the start of your last 2 weeks and whoever gets it and is courteous to shoot you a note acknowledging your departure and wishing you well......then maybe that’s someone to keep in your network. 🤔

Just do it. If people are really that annoyed with one additional email hitting their inbox, then they have other issues. It's not spam, it's not impersonal, it's just someone reaching out to express their sentiments and provide a method to keep in touch.

Everyone has the opportunity to express. What's the old saying? You can propose and they can dispose.

If one doesn't want to read it, they can leave it unopened or trash it...just like people decide what stimuli they want to focus on or ignore as part of every second of their day.

Those interested and genuine will read it, and you may even spark a conversation or two with someone new or further a relationship you were kindling through your note.

I can't tell you how many I've read and sent that brought new perspective or fostered connections.

Those who critique it as poor etiquette are being close minded or just haven't found where the delete button on their keyboard is.

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