After almost 7 years at my current job, I recently accepted an offer from another company. I now have to write my resignation letter and hand it to my manager.
While searching the web for resignation letter examples, all I found were very formal and pompous ones.
The company I work for is a small start-up, where I am on familiar terms with my boss since the first day I've been here. I've always called him by his first name (as do all employees), and used tu
to address him instead of the more formal vous
.
(For those who don't know the difference between the French tu
and vous
, it's the same as between du
and Sie
in German, tu
and usted
in Spanish, or tu
and lei
in Italian : the first one is much less formal and is usually used to address your friends, or people you know well, whereas the second one is used to address older or more powerful people.)
So I was wondering : Should I use tu
or vous
in my resignation letter ? And should I use my boss's first name or his last name ?
Dear Michael,
I regret to inform you (
de t'informer
) that I am resigning from my position as Salesman for Dunder-Mifflin. etc.
Or
Dear Mr Scott,
I regret to inform you (
de vous informer
) that I am resigning from my position as Salesman for Dunder-Mifflin. etc.
Which one should I use ?
Side note : there's no real HR in my company, as my boss is the one handling all hires and resignations.