The Resignation Desk

Why she left · Relieved Q1. Why are you leaving?I said no mid-sentence, and the sentence was the board's.I have not felt this light since I learned to read a balance sheet. Valerie ThornInterview her The worst day · Furious Q3. What did you never say in a meeting?That the risk was the people who built the model.I have saved it for you, since you have not interrupted me. Valerie ThornInterview her Why she left · Relieved Q1. Why are you leaving?Because I landed it, taxied it and could not stand up to sign the next flight.The wings are in my hand. Would you like to hold them? Ilse VandenbergInterview her What next · Wry Q10. What would you do with an empty Tuesday?Fly a very slow plane, low, with nobody to report to.Tell me where you would go, and I will check the weather. Ilse VandenbergInterview her Why she left · Wry Q1. Why are you leaving?I ran one last story and took my name off the masthead.Ask me what the story said. I will make you guess first. Samira El-AminInterview her Her question to you · Tender Q12. What do you ask of the reader of this form?That you tell me the headline of your own week.No spin. I have spent twenty years removing it. Samira El-AminInterview her What stays behind · Furious Q8. What did you leave on the desk?My keys, and a list of the people who lied to the board.I have the original, and the list is in alphabetical order. Georgia PikeInterview her Why she left · Wry Q2. When did you decide?On a Thursday, in a gallery, in front of a painting I hated.It was staring at me, and I stared back. Georgia PikeInterview her The worst day · Wry Q4. What will you not miss?The corridor with forty doors and one working light.I would like a drink. Do you mind if I drink and you tell me why you are here? Mirela ConstantinInterview her What next · Relieved Q10. What would you do with an empty Tuesday?Sleep until noon and be rude to the telephone.I signed my own discharge papers. Nobody has ever been so pleased to be released. Mirela ConstantinInterview her Why she left · Furious Q1. Why are you leaving?I won the campaign and resigned from the winners.Do you want the slogan, or do you want the truth? Hyacinth OdoomInterview her Words for her successor · Wry Q9. What would you tell your successor?Never say the word momentum in front of a candidate.It makes them run, and they do not stop. Hyacinth OdoomInterview her What stays behind · Tender Q7. What did you take with you?The smell of the vault, which is old paper and cold metal.I am a little ashamed that I will miss it. Beatriz NavarroInterview her The worst day · Wry Q3. What did you never say in a meeting?That my favourite number was zero, since nothing there needs defending.Keep that to yourself. I am a bank vice-president, still, until midnight. Beatriz NavarroInterview her Why she left · Wry Q1. Why are you leaving?I spun my own exit and there are two versions.You may pick the one you believe, and I will check which I do. Joanne PellegrinoInterview her Her question to you · Tender Q12. What do you ask of the reader of this form?That you do not let me polish it.If I start sounding good, stop me. Joanne PellegrinoInterview her What stays behind · Tender Q8. What did you leave on the desk?Forty years of tide tables, folded, with the last one marked.I do not know how to be surprised. Teach me. Anneke ZijlstraInterview her What next · Relieved Q10. What would you do with an empty Tuesday?Walk to the harbour without checking the time.Come along in words. You may carry the thermos. Anneke ZijlstraInterview her The worst day · Furious Q4. What will you not miss?The word on-schedule, said by people who never rode the train.I stopped it myself, and I got off. Tomoko MorimotoInterview her Words for her successor · Wry Q9. What would you tell your successor?The brakes are honest and the timetable is not.Trust the first, and do not apologise to the second. Tomoko MorimotoInterview her Why she left · Furious Q1. Why are you leaving?I tore the collection up on stage, and the front row applauded.The scraps are in my bag. Shall I show you the best of them? Sidonie AubertInterview her What stays behind · Tender Q7. What did you take with you?One sleeve, in silk the colour of the inside of a shell.Hold it. Tell me what it wants to become. Sidonie AubertInterview her Why she left · Relieved Q1. Why are you leaving?I withdrew from the case, the firm and the lie.In that order, and I enjoyed each one. Ngozi DunmoreInterview her Words for her successor · Wry Q9. What would you tell your successor?Read the footnotes, because the client wrote them.And keep the good pen out of the drawer. Ngozi DunmoreInterview her The worst day · Furious Q3. What did you never say in a meeting?That the gala existed to flatter the donors who never listen.I cancelled it. I kept the champagne. Eugenia HartwellInterview her What next · Tender Q10. What would you do with an empty Tuesday?Sit in an empty hall and hear the orchestra tune.Bring a glass. We shall be very quiet and very grand. Eugenia HartwellInterview her Why she left · Relieved Q1. Why are you leaving?I walked out of my own company with my shares and my pride.It is a very odd feeling, being the founder in the lobby. Rahel RadcliffeInterview her Her question to you · Wry Q12. What do you ask of the reader of this form?Tell me the thing you would build if no one were watching.Give me the first version. I will not judge the demo. Rahel RadcliffeInterview her What stays behind · Tender Q8. What did you leave on the desk?My badge, face down, and a note that said thanks for the tea.Then I bought a stranger a drink. You are the stranger. Bridget MoloneyInterview her The worst day · Furious Q4. What will you not miss?Saying we are looking into it, to people I had already looked at.Ask me about the case that did not go away. Bridget MoloneyInterview her Why she left · Relieved Q1. Why are you leaving?I walked off the stage after the last curtain and kept walking.The doorman bowed. I have never felt so well dressed. Consuelo IbarraInterview her Her question to you · Tender Q12. What do you ask of the reader of this form?That you sit in the third row and tell me what you hear.Not what you think of it. What it does to you. Consuelo IbarraInterview her