13th Oct 2014
6:55 PM
I came out of the room after a long meeting. A meeting that I called for. I felt something in my stomach. I had another meeting to attend in 5 minutes.
I returned to my desk, unlocked my laptop and dialed into the bridge to attend the meeting.
I was still thinking back about the conversation I had with my manager 5 minutes ago in that room. I was trying to remember the last time I did this. I was trying to remember the words I used last time. Things were different then. People told me I was too strong in my email. They said my manager would have definitely not liked that email. I didn't care, I was glad I did it. I felt relieved.
This time though, it was different. I didn't feel the joy I felt last time, I didn't feel the relief, I was anxious.
I sat quietly with my headset on, thinking, trying not to take in anything I was hearing.
I opened my inbox and started a new e-mail.
Words didn't come naturally. I typed, edited and deleted.......lot of times.
Finally, I decided what I was going to write, I started
"Hello XXX,
6:55 PM
I came out of the room after a long meeting. A meeting that I called for. I felt something in my stomach. I had another meeting to attend in 5 minutes.
I returned to my desk, unlocked my laptop and dialed into the bridge to attend the meeting.
I was still thinking back about the conversation I had with my manager 5 minutes ago in that room. I was trying to remember the last time I did this. I was trying to remember the words I used last time. Things were different then. People told me I was too strong in my email. They said my manager would have definitely not liked that email. I didn't care, I was glad I did it. I felt relieved.
This time though, it was different. I didn't feel the joy I felt last time, I didn't feel the relief, I was anxious.
I sat quietly with my headset on, thinking, trying not to take in anything I was hearing.
I opened my inbox and started a new e-mail.
Words didn't come naturally. I typed, edited and deleted.......lot of times.
Finally, I decided what I was going to write, I started
"Hello XXX,
I wish to inform you that I would like to........."
I finished it finally, read and re-read it, made sure that there were no mistakes.I had to get this right. Make it sound like I am doing this for the right reasons.
I thought hard, what should the subject be? Should I be creative and put something funny? No, this had to be professional, I finally decided that it had to be simple, no fancy stuff.
So I typed in the subject field, "Vikram Mannava Resignation"
I finally clicked the Send button and thought, "The Countdown begins.."
