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Warning: Don't try to gracefully leave a Jason Calcanis co.

Apr 25, 2010 12:23AM PDT

Interesting thread at techcrunch.com on how a developer emailed his boss --Jason Calcanis at mahalo-- to give his two weeks notice and embark upon a new venture. He was very effusive in his thanks to Calcanis and others on the management team/co-workers.

Calcanis' response: Drop dead. (essentially, anyway)

Some commenters are saying the employee should have handled this face to face vs. email, but considering how Calcanis responded (link below), the employee probably saved himself an angry in-person confrontation and a perp walk to the front door by security.

What do you think?

Read here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/24/how-not-to-handle-a-resignation-gracefully/

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(NT) Ego - yes; Professional - fail...
Apr 26, 2010 2:21AM PDT
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(NT) Mahalo is still around?
Apr 26, 2010 2:54AM PDT
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hahaha gmta kwahhn
Apr 26, 2010 11:29AM PDT

I was just thinking that when he said "good luck being employee 3,476 at a failing company" I LITERALLY THOUGHT he was talking about Mahalo...Silly

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He can just go buy himself...
Apr 26, 2010 9:20AM PDT

...a new Tesla or something and tell us all about it. He can go away anytime now.

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Next Time
Apr 26, 2010 10:54AM PDT

Have the guts to resign in person...