I was asked by a friend of mine to look further into the formalities of requests and notices in systems of breaks and resignations, and after doing my whole "well what's the point, I'm a busy developer and I already wrote about it", I caved, and here I am, indulging you further!
Most of you reading this have at least some experience working for, managing, or owning a server. By association, most of you will also, then, have experience either doling out or receiving weekly checks from department leaders, management or otherwise. There is always one glaring check that seems to almost scare staff into forcing themselves to be active without any semblance of productivity - the message requirement.
We've all been there so often that we don't even have to picture it - we go to our logs channels, and find that, to our surprise, a staff member has left our server. There's a few feelings that get tossed around for a few seconds - surprise, disappointment, and exasperation, to name a few - and then we typically go to a safety server with our proof and report them.