What to write in a retirement card

Working next to you made even the long Mondays bearable. Enjoy every slow morning you have earned.

You were the person everyone went to with a question, and you never once made us feel silly for asking.

The break room will miss your stories. We hope retirement gives you plenty of new ones to tell.

Thank you for years of steady hands, good humor and showing the rest of us how it is done.

Your alarm clock is officially fired. Congratulations on a career well done and a future wide open.

It will be strange not seeing your name on every email thread. Strange, but happy for you.

May your days be full of projects you choose, hobbies you love and no performance reviews at all.

Congratulations on retiring. The team is better because you were on it, and we will not forget that.

You gave me my first real chance and trusted me before I trusted myself. Thank you, and happy retirement.

I learned more from watching how you handled hard days than from any training course. Enjoy the rest.

A good boss makes work feel lighter. You did that for all of us, every single year.

Thank you for always backing your people and giving credit away freely. Congratulations on retiring.

Your advice will stay with me long after the farewell cake is gone. Wishing you a wonderful retirement.

You led with patience and fairness, and it showed in everything this team built. Rest well, you earned it.

I hope retirement brings you the same calm you somehow kept during every deadline crunch.

Few people shape a career the way you shaped mine. I am grateful, and I am cheering you on.

No more early commutes, Dad. Now we can finally take that fishing trip you keep promising.

You worked so hard for so long. I cannot wait to see what you do with all this freedom.

Congratulations, Mom. Here is to long lunches, garden mornings and saying yes to every trip.

Retirement looks good on you already. Let us celebrate with a weekday brunch, just because we can.

I am so proud of everything you built in your career, and even prouder of who you are outside it.

Wishing you endless free afternoons and the company of people who make them feel full.

You have spent years planning for this day. Now go enjoy it without a single plan if you like.

Your next chapter has no deadlines, only possibilities. I am excited to be part of it with you.

Congratulations on your promotion to full-time napper. The pay is terrible, but the hours are amazing.

Every day is Saturday now. Try not to rub it in too much when we are stuck in traffic.

You are not retiring, you are just finally switching to a job where you are the boss.

Remember, golf counts as exercise and snacks count as lunch. Welcome to the good life.

Your new to-do list: wake up, have coffee, decide nothing urgent is happening, repeat.

We tried to find a replacement for you, but nobody else can jam the printer quite so creatively.

Retirement rule number one: never answer the phone before ten. Rule number two: see rule one.

Enjoy telling people you are busy when you mean busy reading on the porch. You have earned it.