Thank You Messages for Colleagues

When you are the one leaving

1. 1 Thank you all for the send-off, the card and the frankly excessive collection.
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2. 2 Thank you for four good years. I will miss the people, which is the only thing anyone actually misses.
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3. 3 Thank you for the gift. I have no idea how you knew, and I suspect Rachel.
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4. 4 Thank you for making Mondays survivable.
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Writing in someone else’s leaving card

You have one line and everyone else will read it.

1. 5 Good luck — it has been a pleasure. Keep in touch.
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2. 6 You made this place better. Genuinely.
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3. 7 Thank you for covering for me more times than either of us admitted.
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4. 8 All the best. They are lucky to have you.
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5. 9 Do not become a stranger, and do not take that stapler.
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For someone who covered for you

1. 10 Thank you for holding it all together while I was off. I know exactly what that cost you.
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2. 11 Thank you for picking up my work last month. I owe you and I will pay it back.
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3. 12 Thank you for not once making me feel guilty about being away.
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For a group gift or collection

1. 13 Thank you all for the very generous collection — completely unexpected.
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2. 14 Thank you for the gift and for the card, which I have read four times.
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3. 15 Thank you to everyone who contributed. It was extremely kind.
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