You’ve just taken 5,000 words to tell your employer where he can shove it, on the pages of the New York Times no less. What do you do next? Keep working for him, of course. Thought Jake “Dear AIG, I Quit!” DeSantis had left the building? Think again! The Journal reports/reminds (for those of us who didn’t make it through the whole good-bye letter**) that the AIG-Financial Products executive vice president continues to toil away.
According to AIG-FP head Gerry Pasciucco, DeSantis is merely there “short term as the commodity business he works on is resolved,” and sure, he probably had some sort of a contract to uphold* but shouldn’t that have been thought out beforehand? You can’t be telling someone to go fuck him or herself, audibly announce for all to hear that you’re leaving and then add, “as soon as I finish my commitments.”
We’re not asking that you kick the water cooler over and burn the place down on your way out (we’re not not asking that either), but this sort of behavior is just completely unacceptable. Not necessarily because it makes you look like a pussy (though it does, and that should be considered) but because it threatens to ruin kiss off letters for the rest of us.
If you’re not comfortable going before the job is done (which, really, at this point, who cares, just go), then at least time the big speech to just after you’ve wrapped things up. Then grab your fish and whichever secretary will come with you and get the hell out of there.
*Like employerfather, like employeeson.
**Yes, in the (very last paragraph) of the letter, JD writes “I’ll continue over the short term to help make sure no balls are dropped, but after what’s happened this past week I can’t remain much longer” but the sentiment remains, as does the self-righteous judgment emanating from the Dealbreaker office over DeSantis’ decision to leak the letter, and be complicit with the headline “I Quit” when that’s not exactly the case.
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Dangerous precedent, indeed. Grow a spine and set up trip-wires, Jake le Snake.
do they hire anyone who’s not Italian?
I think we can now more confidently assume the letter to be part of a Burton-Marsteller “strategy” than a genuine insider’s counterpoint.
Same goes for the spate of anguished private blog entries we saw so soon after the Congressional hearings circus.
I don’t know what the hell AIG is at this point, but it sure doesn’t seem like a legitimate business concern.
When he goes back on the Midol next month he might quit again.
@4- uh, Midol would REDUCE his mood swings, so no.
@5
is that you M Whit?
Kudos to @3 for making me Google “Burton-Marsteller”. Very interesting.
I can’t believe that an experienced professional like this is acting like a first year associate that just found out that finance isn’t a 9-5 job.
He must be a real pleasure to work with. I love that he points out how many hours he works so that he can imply that the rest of America only works 40 hour work weeks. Way to alienate himself on a public stage.
I don’t understand, he clearly said in the letter that he was not leaving immediately, why is anyone surprised now?
He wants his employer to claw him back. All traders are that way. If you say you are going to quit a trading company and they beg you to come back, you are the King of the trade floor and the popular legends of your greatness begin flowing all over the trading community.
“They begged me to not quit….” Can’t you just hear it?
What a loser and a scumbag!