Resignations are on the rise, but there’s a right way to walk out the door

While he’s too refined and well-mannered to say “take this job and shove it,” that was Rahkim Sabree’s thoughts when he resigned from the regional bank where he’d worked until late May.

The 31-year-old had had enough with the way he was being micromanaged and continuously assigned menial tasks. “If they needed me, I was happy to help out,” said Sabree, who had risen through the ranks in the banking world over the last decade. “But when what started as a favor became an expectation, and then part of my everyday duties.”