“Quoted” Exit Interview

Previously I wrote the “Quoted” Interview, and I had fun doing it, so, I decided to go ahead with this “Quoted” Exit Interview.

 

Please don’t use this as a reference for good answers,,, as it is mostly just for fun.

We begin any exit interview with thanking the soon to be ex-employee for his time and asking the first Question:

 

• Tell me about how you’ve come to decide to leave?

• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  • By: Voltaire

• What could have been done early on to prevent the situation developing/provide a basis for you to stay with us?

• You can’t prevent what you can’t predict.

  • ― K.M. Mac Aulay

• How do you feel about the organization?

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  • By: Warren G. Bennis

• What has been good/enjoyable/satisfying for you in your time with us?

• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

  • By: Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

• What has been frustrating/difficult/upsetting to you in your time with us?

• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.

  • By: Dave Barry

• What training would you have liked or needed that you did not get, and what effect would this have had?

• No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

  • By: Veronica Roth, Insurgent

• What can you say about communications within the organization/your department?

• The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

  • By: Joseph Priestley

• How would you describe the culture or ‘feel’ of the organization?

• Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

  • By: Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

• Would you consider working again for us if the situation were right?

• I don’t want anyone who doesn’t want me.

  • By: Oprah Winfrey

 

 

 Please don’t use this as a reference for good answers,,, as it is mostly just for fun.