When leaving a job, how polite should one be towards management?

[Deja Q]

Just curious. One person recently resigned in a fit of pique and spoke out against them...

Personally, I want to speak my mind too... but is that for the best?

[aQuArius]

1. Don't burn bridges....

Best advice you'll ever get. You never know when something may come back to haunt you.

[burrowowl]

2. Always be polite

you'll never know if you might meet with them later.
Of course if they are real assholes and you think you don't need their references and you'll never have dealings with them again, you can politely tell them they stink and why.

[kixot]

3. Is mooning out of the question?

Throwing feces is soo primate.

[TheZoo]

4. Be honestly polite

I left my job last Friday and started a new one today. I spoke highly of the company and management. The only shortcoming that I had with it (pay nonwithstanding) was that there wasn't enough interaction between management and the employees. And that's how I put it.

It depends on your situation, of course.

[Elidor]

5. Consider that every little bit of politeness could be

Inversely proportional to the time you may spend looking for another job. Work from there.

[Mercurius]

6. It's fun to tell them off in your head,

but when you actually do it, you may regret it. Just be polite - disdainfully and icily polite, if you must. :-)

[flama]

7. When leaving a job voluntarily,

you shoule be as polite as possible. If there's an exit interview, there's a whole lot of politics going on. Polite but honest is really hard there.

Remember that your last employer is the pipeline to your next employer. Now that you've got one in the middle, it still pays to be polite.

[lcordero]

8. BE VERY VERY VERY POLITE

You don't know when you might need a reference. This is one of those situations where if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.

[Deja Q]

9. Let me add an extra condition:

If I had nothing to lose, then would it be okay to speak my mind?

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. If you have nothing to lose, then you have nothing to lose!

Tell em what you think!

But the advice about burning bridges and being generally circumspect still applies.

[maxanne]

11. be very sure

that you have nothing to lose now, or ever.

Then go for it!

I once worked (briefly) for a Republican Congressman, at an inn he owned. When I quit, I told his wife that I felt soiled every day I was there, and that they were the most immoral people I'd ever worked for.

My only regret is that I didn't say more!

[lcordero]

12. Nope