“Difficult to cope with weather & cost of living” — Gen Z staff sends handwritten resignation letter
Two Gen Z hires in Malaysia became the talk of Threads after quitting just two days into work, handing in a handwritten resignation letter

A Malaysian employer’s post has gone viral after revealing how two Gen Z hires quit just two days into their new job — with a handwritten resignation letter citing “weather” and the “cost of living” as reasons for leaving.

In a Threads post, the employer shared a photo of the letter, which read: “Please accept this as my resignation, effective 8/9/2025. I have appreciated my time here, but I find it difficult to cope with the weather and the cost of living, so I feel it’s best to move on.”

The letter was shown with this caption: “This is the resignation letter I received from two Gen Z workers — they had only worked for two days. Then both of them took MC. They came to me saying, ‘hello how are you, here’s our resignation letter’. I was just reading it when they asked me to wait and make a new one because the original had gone missing. Clueless,” she wrote.

The post quickly gained traction, sparking disbelief and laughter among netizens who couldn’t get over the “audacity” of both the letter and its reasons.

One amused user wrote: “A resignation letter written on just a piece of paper? Didn’t you learn in school how to write a formal letter? That sentence looks like you copied and pasted it from Google Translate. Why not type it in Word and print it out to send to HR? Instead you hand wrote it? Did you think you were submitting an English assignment to your teacher, kid?”

Another pointed out the odd excuse: “Sorry, but what does the weather have to do with making it hard to work? Are you guys working outside the office? As a Gen Z, I don’t claim them. Can’t even write an essay properly. Is this how you do assignments in college/uni?”

Meanwhile, a third netizen kept it short: “Handwriting looks like a 5th grader’s... sigh, so tiring sis.”

Resign because cannot play hp while working izzit ?

what company is it? is it construction?
my fren said his construction worker always mia and blackmail him geh lol
every week he has to fire someone for either stealing his materials to resell or mabuk no come in on time or they just purposedly handicap themselves and work slowly
and they all still have the balls to ask for advance payment and blackmail him say will contact labour dept lol
if office job 2 day  and complain about the weather kenot la
but if its construction job then its basically the kids is out of their depth, they prolly saw some ktard here say to go back to trades works and they get paid 200/hr but when they try it they realize its under hot sun all day and moving heavy shit and is just not for them
but also funny to see some ktard here talk about enforcing 1 month notice period but in serious K when some ktard ask if they can just leave coz their boss is abusive to them and they dont want to stay the whole notice period they say is ok wor
why this ktard got 2 face one?

Says cold weather ma, probably inside office aircond only. Who the heck complains about outside weather being in Malaysia.

Also I don't remember telling people to quit without serving notice. Quit, yes.

Original post:
https://www.threads.com/@nhma.r_/post/DOaFWL8Eqq7

https://thesun.my/viral/going-viral/difficu...tter-GF14882523

Companies really should start defaulting their notice period as per labor law (1 month) and request for payment in lieu. How whimsical can you get, as if weather and living cost change in 2 days?

still under probation and the condition of 2 months notice etc not enforced yet?

Why are we acting shocked by the reasons?
People want to leave will leave, whatever reasons stated just for convenience.

It's sometimes better to say random things than manager is an ******* and colleagues are hypocrites.

Keje 2 hari, meaning still in probation. During probation can leave any time right?

What's the issue?

the only thing that can be "seen" from the letter is the this Gen Z really dun really care shit of the company he/she is leaving. just simply write few sentence is a piece of paper.

lel topkek employer. gen z being polite je.. takan wanna say your company shit and shit salary...

wait till u see some asshole gone MIA after lunch

regardless of age/gen

I copied James Bond... just one sentence... I hereby tender my resignation with immediate effect.

If you complain about cost of living, then where should you go? Anywhere in the world where?

starbucki

Hehe look at this