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> "After almost four incredible years at Twitter, I decided to leave the nest yesterday."

Recently I teased PR for how their announcements never sound human. But this is what you get when people without PR experience give announcements. It’s always the same format and usually includes a weird idiom.

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It's a bird joke.

Yeah but birds don’t live in nests. They hatch babies there. So is the metaphor that Foad is a momma bird, or that he’s all grown up and has flown the nest?

It’s Saturday evening and I want to be pedantic, dammit!

So did this ex-Twitter employee. Hatched products there and lived in their house. Basically it meant they are done laying eggs there.

This works?

Sure. It’s just always a weird format with some cute metaphor. “after X ADJECTIVE years I’ve decided to move on to greener pastures or whatnot.”

I guess maybe I’m just not attached to jobs the way some are so it comes off as phoney to me. The kind of thing you say when hiring managers are watching.

Neither they are. That's why they just want to get done with it while not burning any bridges, or possibly closing any doors. Whenever I see copy pasta/regular resignations messages which involves praise or good feelings I assume this person was unhappy there.

Does not matter much

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