How to resign with dignity move on to bigger and better things.
So, you had your day in court. You properly slandered your enemies in the media. You selfishly pursued your own interests. You willfully disobeyed the law. You acted with complete disregard to your personal image. You stated your case in front of God and North Carolina. You did good.
And then the unthinkable happened. You lost.
There are only three things left to do:
1) Be comforted by the immortal words of Winston Churchill:
If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
or
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
or
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
(You wouldn’t believe how many applicable Churchill quotes there are for this situation )
2) Quit before they fire you Make a permanent adjustment to your employment contract. By sending the the most rushed resignation letter in the history of judicial resignations:
actual copy obtained by KUWTB
What was it old Churchy said again?
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
That’s the spirit.
(RIP Keeping Up with the Belk’s column. For now…)
