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Without further adieu...

Resignation

by Walker Smart 

First and foremost, we’ve decided that we can’t work with you anymore. We thank you for the opportunity you’ve given each of us, but at this time the things that are bad outweigh the things that are right. We feel we’ve been straightforward with you, more or less, about things we think need to be better, and we feel we’ve given you ample time to fix these things, or to outline a strategy of how you plan to improve these things, or at least try to come up with compromises. At this time we feel any attempt made to communicate quickly degrades into a situation where you feel that we are insulting you and your work, when in actuality we all have great respect for the work you’ve done. We talk about it all the time, and lament that you’ve been unable to use your years of experience to repair these grievances we have. We’ve talked in great length, towards the end of many late nights, about all the ways we feel we are misrepresenting ourselves to our clients and regret that we can’t share our many revelations because you would take them as nothing more than base cruelty, and we have no intention of dishing it out when the end result would do nothing more than offend you. We’ve found you to be fragile. We have no ill will towards you as a person, and hope the best for you. We realize this will place you in a difficult situation, you’ve made promises to many people and you can’t fulfill any without us, so as to what you can do next, we have no additional advice for you from this point on.

As for the matter of our contracts, since the current work situation is not what we had in mind and not at all what we had discussed at the time of signing, we feel that they are null and in any case were nothing more than a formality to begin with. We have grown since then, since the time of the signing, and any actions made were from a place of naivety, and we can’t be faulted for our lack of understanding nor should we continue to be punished for it.

In all honesty, as much as we feel we’ve prepared you for this inevitability, things like this must always come as a shock, but please know the sadness we feel is as great, if not more so, than what you must be feeling. The time for talking is over, and we feel it is only through action that the things we need will come to us. Something is broken here, and it hasn’t been fixed, so we have no choice but to go our separate ways, and hope for each of us that when the next, best opportunity comes along, we can all look back on this fondly, as a stepping stone towards our ultimate prosperity in separate ventures. There are wounds that will have to heal first, but eventually we hope we can move past this and be better friends for it in the end.