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.