[Magdalen] Here's the letter I just sent my former employer.

[Allan Carr]

Good luck, Mike. I hope and pray you’ll get back to enjoying your work.
That’ll be terrific.

Allan

> On Aug 16, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Good luck, Mike.  I'll be praying for you.
> 
> Kate
> 
> 
> "What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
> humbly with your God?"
> Micah 6:8
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:14 PM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thoroughly reviewed and edited by my Union team.  And how!  Anyone
>> familiar with Christopher Guest's "For Your Consideration" knows that my
>> "Home for Purim" has been considerably remolded!  (I'm still there, though.)
>> 
>> August 16, 2018
>> 
>> Dear Executive Management Team:
>> 
>> Upon further and deep reflection, I have decided to write you to request
>> that my resignation of July 31, 2018, be rescinded, and that I be
>> reinstated to my former position of Water Resources Technician at the
>> Agency.  The circumstances leading to my resignation date back to March
>> 2018 and my decision to go on medical (stress) leave for what amounted to a
>> period of four months.  What I have not had the occasion to relate is that
>> during the final few weeks of my leave, I experienced a relapse of my
>> vasculitis, essentially attributable to mounting anxiety related to my
>> return in July.  And after my return during the remaining weeks of July,
>> the relapse worsened, such that I had to consult with my Stanford[*]
>> specialist under whose care I am, and he confirmed that the sort of stress
>> I'd been under, and was still under, is a major cause of relapses with such
>> autoimmune disorders.
>> 
>> I have worked at the Agency for over 25 years, working my way up from
>> Temporary Typist Clerk II to permanent status in that classification, to
>> Senior Typist Clerk, and then, via skills seen and affirmed by one of the
>> then Assistant General Managers, the ultimate promotion to Water Resources
>> Technician in 2003.  I have definitely enjoyed my time working at the
>> Agency and upon reflection I realize that, in light of my many years at the
>> Agency during which staff worked together to support each other through
>> good times and hard times, I was mistaken to think that the only way to
>> address my stress was to resign.
>> 
>> In summary, I would like you to understand that I submitted my resignation
>> under duress and I would like to, again, express my desire to rescind my
>> resignation and be reinstated to the position of Water Resources Technician
>> at the Agency.
>> 
>> I thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> M J (Mike) Logsdon
>> 
>> [*Good thing for proofreading.  I'd first typed "Stanfield", my mother's
>> maiden name!]
>>