Legaly at Work Place

One day, if you resign from your company, do you want to be remembered as someone nice, very helpful, good at your job, or do you want to be referred as that asshole who finally quit the job?

Nice question, isn't it.

In my office, there someone who will resign soon. He's been working for several years, so many people already knew him and had experience working with him.

Today, one staff come to my team desk and he dedicate his 5 minutes to told us how happy he is that this person is resigned. He said how this person is the pain in the ass regularly, so demanding. He said that his boss also feel very happy to hear the news and can't wait to see the replacement. Well, we laughed of course, it is not that serious.

Actually I knew him because we work closely, and personally he is not that terrible. I still believe that he has a good heart, quite fair. It's just that he is strict, cannot communicate very well with anyone, either vertically with his team or horizontally with other department, and he has problem to control his emotions.  He seemed to be frustrated all the time. He is stingy. It's like, what good memories you left for us to mesmerized? You left almost nothing, literally. So when no one bother and even they feel quite happy when you're gone, it's not their faults. You reap what you sow.

Someday, we all will leave our work place, either by resigning or retired. We all will. Of course, not everybody's thought is matter, we do not have to think about other people's opinion all the time. But I guess nobody wants to be remembered in that way.

So, even we still have to work professionally all the time, and sometimes we have to pragmatic and maybe some people has to get hurt by our working (it is common in workplace). But we still have to be a nice person, for minimum level. Do not blame anyone for our own work frustration. Do not be rude when asking something even when you are a boss. Do not be stingy because unless you are very cute like Mr. Krab in Spongebob, people will always hate you. Just be nice and polite in some minimum level. Be a better person overall. And when we leave, we can leave with good legacy, not only our work, but some good memories with our colleagues.