AvantGuild: How To Say Goodbye

Leaving your job—whether willingly or less cheerfully—requires tact: no trashing your boss’s office if you were laid off, and no dancing in the halls, screaming “So long, suckers!” if you’re quitting. That tact extends to the goodbye e-mail you’ll send out, which may be the last impression your colleagues get of you until you come begging them for a reference. So what’s the best way to send that e-mail? Kristen Fischer answered that question in today’s