Jason Calacanis on how to resign.

Or, you can ignore all of these tips, give 2 weeks notice, send a nice note to the team, and trust that no matter what happens afterwards, you're not going to look bad.

Rather than hand out tips on how to resign, imo, he'll be better off asking for tips on how to accept a resignation gracefully or at least on how not to respond to a resignation letter

How not to act as a CEO with a sour reputation of a company with a sour reputation<p>0. upon receiving an email from someone resigning, disrespectfully tell them to fuck off, insult their new employer, delete their account, then instead of apologizing, make up a list of 6 rules telling other people how they should resign to post to TechCrunch and try to regain reputation.

About the only thing Calacanis got right is that resigning by e-mail is a chump way to quit.<p>I love how he thinks the company is owed 3 years of your service. I mean really?

So, either Calacanis seriously thinks he's in a position to give "resignation tips" now (lost touch with reality?) or this is just a calculated attempt to spin the news coverage.<p>Strange guy.

There are no rules for how to resign, or for how to accept a resignation, except that of treating the other person as you yourself would expect to be treated in like circumstances. Both parties here went out of their way to provoke and then needlessly made a public issue of it.

&#62; If you would rather stay at your company, but need to make more money, be straight with your boss and let them know you would like them to match, or come closer to a competing offer.<p>I think this is bad advice. Even if they don't want to keep you, employers are likely to match just to keep you around until your current project is complete.<p>Your best bet in this situation is to simply ask for a raise without mentioning your other offer, and leave if the answer is no.

<i>If things are going well at the company, and you’re learning and developing, you should stay three years–at least. There is no reason to jump ship if you’re learning and enjoying your time at a company.</i><p>This arbitrary three-year mark seems a little one-sided. A lot can happen in three years. You can get married, have a kid. Your parents can get sick and ask you come home. You can stumble on a better opportunity. You can get bit by a travel bug. Your spouse may want to move for his/her career. None of these have anything to do with learning and enjoying your time at the company.

Some of Warren Buffett's wisdom might be relevant here:<p><i>I want employees to ask themselves whether they are willing to have any contemplated act appear the next day on the front page of their local paper, to be read by their spouses, children, and friends, with the reporting done by an informed and critical reporter.</i>

&#62;6. Don’t post correspondence of any private discussions with your boss on the Web. That’s not good for anyone–even though it’s highly entertaining for many.<p><pre><code> s/your boss/Sam Odio </code></pre> Hey, that sounds familiar!

Both this list, particularly #1, and his email response to the guy who resigned reek of resentment to me. Jason Calacanis doesn't present himself as someone who is truly comfortable and happy, in my opinion, which seems ironic given the level of success he appears to have achieved.<p>The great people I have worked for, one of whom I still work for, would never react that way. I admire those people, but I could never admire someone who acts like Jason Calacanis and I go out of my way never to work for people like him.<p>At it's most cut and dried a job is an agreement between you and someone: you give them your work, they give you money. They don't own you and beyond your obligation to fullfil your side of the work/money bargain you don't owe them anything in my opinion.<p>That being said, however, I do think it's important to do work that fullfils and inspires you and benefits you in more ways than just getting money for work you do.

Isn't Calacanis' basic script pretty much well what the guy in question emailed to him?

If your boss is on Twitter, you could also do it on there.

I'll echo the comment on the post. Stop giving him attention. Calacanis is the Sarah Palin of the tech industry.

&#62;6. Don’t post correspondence of any private discussions with your boss on the Web<p>Priceless.