Resignation Letter Template

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Dear [insert bosses name here],

I am writing to inform you that it is with grave excitement that I am deciding to resign.

I would like to take this chance to thank you for the immense opportunity, and the endless hours of time you invested in training and supporting me. I would also like to apologise for if I ever looked interested.

I have put considerable thought into this move and can reassure you it was no rash decision; I’ve been thinking about it for the past 18 months, which as you know is the entire duration of my employment.

In case you would like to know a bit about what I propose to do, I have applied for university in the hope to let three years pass under the blissful ignorance of a duvet with a bottle of Budweiser Sellotaped to my head/ bought a wagon and a piebald cob and hope to make a living stealing metal parts off people’s motor vehicles/ learned six songs on the guitar and plan to stand outside the subway singing ‘Wonder Wall’ [delete as appropriate] ; plus, I’ve got a massive back log of socks to pair.

Please accept this correspondence as notice of my six week resignation period, beginning from the date of this letter.

Yours sincerely and honestly,

[Insert your name here]

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Author: Belinda George

Belinda is an English writer and student journalist and is currently studying a degree in Geography. She enjoys covering environmental topics and and is now publishing her undergraduate learnings to inspire others. However her specialism is comedy and satire. Alongside her degree, she currently holds the position of editor of her university paper and is also completing a personal research project on endophyte toxicity in grasslands which she hopes to publish in the near future.

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