To Colleagues: I'm Outta Here             unspoken job skill: wording a goodbye email that won't make co-workers cringe

Julie Redfield, talent management expert at PA Consulting Group, provides her views about what employers should do when employees exit companies – and how to make sure their last farewell is appropriate. 

Amidst the funny, the snarky and the sad emails, there is potential for an alarming mass email to be sent, so Julie notes that “some human-resource managers screen a departing employee's email for any kind of red flag that the person might say something inappropriate."

In the article, Julie said that “if someone is fired, most employers disable email access immediately and sometimes send a pre-emptive email explaining the company's position.”

"You can't have 500 people talking around a water cooler about why somebody left," she is quoted as saying.

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