Final Fortnight

Maybe it’s my never-ending immaturity or possibly my bottomless stupidity but I decided that I wanted my two-week notice to be more than just a boring “I’m quitting in 14 days.” I decided that I would make it uber-formal, kinda like a wedding invitation.

I told a friend about my idea. I told him that one of the things I was going to do was write out all the dates using only words, not numerals (again, like in wedding invitations). As we sat chuckling about it he suggested that I use some esoteric dating system, like the position of the stars or something crazy like that. Crazy enough, it just, might, work. So I wrote out my first draft. I liked the way it came out, but decided it needed a bit more. That’s when I got the idea of making my resignation letter look older, like a scroll or something.

After some brief online research I found a few recipes for aging paper. I went and bought some resume paper and aged my first piece. It came out awesome. The next day I printed out several copies of my notice. A notice should be signed, but since part of the aging process included getting the paper wet I couldn’t sign it in ink and then age it; nor did I want to sign it afterwards as I thought the signature would look too “new” compared to the rest of the document. The handiest solution I could come up with was to photocopy my signature onto the notices. Signing a blank sheet of paper in the correct spot and photocopying it onto the entire batch worked perfectly.

The next evening I went home and sent my resignation letters back in time. I screwed up the first two trying out some things, but I think my third attempt went swimmingly. Taking a lighter and sinjing the edges finished off the look. The final touch will be a piece of ribbon tied around it after I roll it up nice & tight. Click the thumbnail above to see a full sized (though censored) copy of my resignation letter.