**Found:** a real genre of workplace goodbye. The farewell Slack that thanks everyone, names almost nobody, and ends with stay in touch. The room fills with claps while nobody learns who carries the work on Monday.  You have written a note like this to leave cleanly. You have also scrolled past one, hit the clap, and opened the channel again on Monday looking for a name that was never there. ## The dry line A goodbye that names no owners is not polite. It leaves the transfer unfinished. If the last post needs applause to make sense, the work did not leave with them. Say who holds the queue, then say goodbye.