People ops · 3 min read
How we part ways
How we handle people leaving, by choice or not, with honesty and respect.
Everyone leaves eventually. People move on, priorities change, sometimes a fit that was right stops being right. How a company handles the door on the way out tells you more about it than how it handles the welcome. Here's how we try to do it, whether you're leaving by choice or we're the ones ending it.
It shouldn't be a surprise
If we're the ones deciding to let someone go, the reasons should already be familiar. We believe in the ongoing kind of feedback that means nobody gets blindsided by their own exit. If something isn't working, you'll hear it early and clearly, with a real chance to change it, long before it becomes a conversation about leaving.
A firing that arrives out of nowhere is usually a failure of the months before it, not a decision made on the day. We'd rather have the uncomfortable conversation early than the devastating one late.
Sometimes it still doesn't work out. That's allowed. Not every good person and every small company are a fit forever, and saying so kindly is better than pretending otherwise.
What we owe you on the way out
Clarity and dignity, at a minimum. If we're ending it, you get a straight answer about why, said to your face, not buried in process or dressed up as a "reorganization." If you're leaving by choice, you get our genuine thanks and help landing well.
Either way, we handle the practical things without drama: your final pay, whatever's yours to keep, a clean handoff of the work, and references we actually mean. Nobody gets marched out or made to feel like a security threat for having quit.
How severance works
When we end someone's time here for reasons short of serious misconduct, you get real severance: enough to give you room to breathe and find the next thing, not a token. We're putting the exact terms in writing on this page, in the open like everything else, and the commitment behind them is firm.
How we try to do it
Clear and kind at the same time. Those aren't opposites. The kindest version of hard news is the honest one, delivered like you're talking to an adult you respect, because you are.
That means real reasons, not corporate fog. A conversation, not an ambush. Enough notice and support that you can land on your feet. No walking-you-out spectacle, no pretending it's mutual when it isn't. If we made the call, we'll own it out loud. That's how we work, applied to the hardest moment.
We'll also be honest about what we got wrong. Often an exit has fault on both sides, or is nobody's fault at all. Saying so is part of the respect.
Leaving well means you're still part of the story
People who leave Flagon well don't stop being part of it. We build in the open, so much of what you touched keeps your fingerprints on it whether you're here or not, and we'd rather stay proud of having worked together than pretend it didn't happen.
The industry is small and memory is long. Someone who left years ago might be the person who sends us our next great teammate, or becomes one again themselves. We'd like every exit to be one where that stays possible.
If you're leaving, thank you, honestly. Stay in touch: hey@flagon.io and the Discord doors stay open. And if you're reading this while deciding whether to join, working here is the fuller picture of the whole arc.