uGoGirlFriday

A practical farewell present to a colleague

Anna, one of my smartest and highly dependable staff, informed me last November 2009 that she’s very unhappy with her work setup and would be resigning. I was able to convince her to stay during that time. But then again, you can only do so much. Anna formally resigned last March 15 and her last day is tomorrow.

Times like these are very paradoxical for me. I feel quite melancholic on losing a great staff. At the same time though, I’m happy for her because she can finally spread her wings and follow her dreams; The look on her delighted face as she talked about her future work is quite envious actually. I want THAT look plastered on MY face.

I’ll be giving Anna a 16gig flash drive as a farewell present for her last day tomorrow. I know she’ll be backing up her files and some of those are definitely going to be personal files accumulated over her more than two years of service in our company. Consequently, she’ll definitely be needing the flash drive to be able to take home those files and ensure that there’s no traces of it on her computer. Hehehe.