"I put 34 years into this firm, Howard, and now I can't pay my insurance. You can't eat an orange and then throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit" - Willie Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
People do treat you differently once the resignation letter has been signed and submitted. Not badly, just differently and a little distantly. Perhaps it's part jealousy and for some a sense of failure and disappointment? Not that I feel discarded during my last week (and nearly 8 years), just that I hope I never get to feel the way that Willie Loman felt. Moving on is a way to avoid becoming a piece of fruit.
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I hate that period after the resignation. I always just hope they say I may as well clear out & they'll just pay me for the rest of the month. (My brother somehow lands this sweet situation at every resignation, and he's had a few!)
It's not that your loyalty goes, but your commitment does start to wane. And at the same time they stop seeing you in their medium/ long-term plans so they have to shift you to the side while they talk business. I know the feeling, it isn't nice.
Enjoy your last week though! I hope you get a kick-ass farewell party.
I also constantly hope, since having read that play, that i never ever end up like him!!
Ah commitment, those were the days. Looking forward to getting some of that back.
The character is Willy LOMAN, not Lomax.
Thank you - where on earth would you get Lomax?! :P
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