Dear Bob ...So, awhile ago I wrote you about what to do when I found out my boss was looking to replace me ("When you hear you're going to be replaced," Advice Line, 12/15/2007). Well, I took Lewis' First Law of Business ("We are all capitalists") to heart and started looking for another job. I found a great opportunity to leverage my current skills while learning new ones, and I turned my notice in yesterday. W Dear Bob …So, awhile ago I wrote you about what to do when I found out my boss was looking to replace me (“When you hear you’re going to be replaced,” Advice Line, 12/15/2007). Well, I took Lewis’ First Law of Business (“We are all capitalists”) to heart and started looking for another job. I found a great opportunity to leverage my current skills while learning new ones, and I turned my notice in yesterday.When I sat down with my boss and HR, they pressed me as to why I was leaving. Applying Lewis’ Second Law of Business – actually an off-shoot of the First Law – (“Is it beneficial to me?”) I declined to tell them the real reasons for my departure, relying instead on a current on-going personal crisis (divorce) to tell them that I “am looking for a clean start somewhere else.” Which is not a lie. I guess I am telling you all of this to get your approval, or consent at the very least, for not telling them what a bunch of yellow-bellied, lying, conniving, thieving, bastards they really are. After all, other than venting, what possible good would there be in that for me?Just sign me,– Venting Dear Venting …Congratulations. You handled it perfectly. Other than the emotional gratification you’d have experienced, explaining the real reason for your departure would have nothing but downside in it for you.I sympathize regarding your divorce. I’ve been through it. There’s no such thing as an easy one. They start out hard and get worse. Good luck. Thanks for letting me know, and for giving me permission to post your experience in Advice Line. It is valuable for readers to know this sort of thing works, and that the hardest part is to make the decision.Much as I’d love to believe my advice by itself constitutes gospel, it isn’t. I figure an ounce of fact is worth several pounds of opinion.– Bob Powered by ScribeFire. Technology Industry