When leaving a job there’s a great temptation to get all the pent-up grievances off your chest and tell your employer, boss or soon-to-be-ex-colleagues just what you think of them.

If you’re leaving because you’ve won millions on the lottery then have a blast. But if you still have to continue your working career then you may be wise to resist the urge.

You never know where you may meet someone again in future or where a future employer checks out your CV and contacts your old employer. Leave with dignity.

Matt Potter has written a book about resignation speeches. I like his “Message in the Bottle” approach, using your resignation to effectively pitch for a new job. He says

“Someone who works in a call centre or a car dealership, they need to think when you resign who do they want to “woo” in some way. They could CC in co-workers into the email or if they have clients they want to seem like the good one in the situation, they could leak it to them. I wouldn’t advise burning bridges but leaking to one or two people”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3428334/How-hand-perfect-resignation.html