Retirement can be both a joyous and bittersweet time in anyone’s life. It marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new chapter. It can be emotional and even scary. When you have spent your entire life in a career, it is a major change to retire. It can be hard to close the chapter on your career.
When writing a retirement message for a coworker who is retiring, why not keep it light and fun? Retirement is not only an end, but a fun new beginning. Bring up the vibes by leaving a funny wish for retirement. Let your departing coworker know you are excited for their next adventure by making them laugh.
Believe it or not, it’s possible to be sincere and funny at the same time. A funny retirement card is a great path to take when letting your coworkers know how much you have enjoyed your time with them. Help them leave on a light note by sharing your feelings and making them laugh.
But, if making someone laugh stresses you out, we have you covered. Here are 25 funny wishes for retirement you can use.
What is a Retirement Card?
Retirement is the stage in life when someone leaves the workforce and live off sources of income or savings. Retiring seems to be the goal of every person in the workforce when they enter. It is common to look forward to the day you will get to retire and enjoy the fruits of your labors.
A retirement card is a greeting card given to coworkers when they decide it is time for them to retire. They usually contain well wishes, retirement quotes, expressions of appreciation, and a nice note to say goodbye. They are often heartfelt and contain lessons that have been learned from the retiree or share happy memories. Retirement cards are usually signed by close friends and colleagues.
Retirement cards are very common in the corporate world. It is a big deal for someone to decide to retire, so it’s considered a professional courtesy to send them off with a retirement card (and maybe a retirement gift). This is the team’s opportunity to say goodbye and express their gratitude for a job well done. You can send your coworkers off on a happy note by expressing how you feel about them and the time you have spent together. This is a great way to say goodbye.
In this digital age, online retirement cards are the way to go. This is an online card that you create and send from start to finish online. You can even invite others to sign it with the click of a button. It will take moments and the retiree will have something to keep with them online forever. This takes the inconvenience of going to buy a physical card and then finding everyone to sign it.
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How to Create Funny Wishes for Retirement
It can be overwhelming to think of a funny wish for retirement messages. There are a couple of guidelines that will help you create your message to the retiree. Once you have the basis of your message created, we will give you some sayings to make it funny.
- Keep it Short: It can be tempting to write the next great American novel to your retiring coworker, but resist the urge. Short and sweet is a saying for good reason.
- Keep it Personal: Avoid copying and pasting the same message for every coworker who retires. When you work with someone enough, you should have plenty of nice things to say to them specifically. Dig deep.
- Keep it Positive: Keep it upbeat. If you have an issue, this is not the time to air a grievance, even in a funny way.
- Show Gratitude: Every person we encounter in life leaves an impression on us. Share these feelings of gratitude with your departing coworker. Let them know you appreciate who they are and what they have contributed to the company as well as their hard work.
30 Funny Retirement Quotes
It is overwhelming to try to be funny on demand. We won’t leave you out to dry here.
It’s important to remember the context of your retirement message. If your workplace is a little more serious or your coworkers are unfamiliar with your humor, your jokes may not land. Funny wishes for retirement work best in lighthearted situations.
If you’re ready to go, we have collected some funny retirement quotes to add to any retirement card to make your coworker laugh.
- “Training someone new is going to be so time-consuming. Really wish you would have considered your retirement plan. Way to leave us in a lurch.”
- “What do you call a person who is happy on Monday? Retired.”
- I’m really going to miss my scapegoat…I mean my friend, at work. I didn’t actually blame you for all of my mistakes. Really, I didn’t. You believe me right? Anyway bud, good luck. Thanks for the memories.
- “Fine…..Go. We never liked you anyway. That’s not true. I’m lashing out. Don’t go!”
- “I can’t wait to retire so I can get up at 6 o’clock in the morning and go drive around really slow and make everybody late for work.”
- “Wishing you good luck on your new journey. I sure wish I could start doing nothing daily. Warm wishes.”
- “Some people come into your life and just really make their mark. They inspire you to be your best and to constantly seek to improve. They bring out the best in you and help you reach your true potential. That wasn’t you, but maybe it will be your replacement. Can’t wait to see who we hire. Happy retirement.”
- “When a man retires, his wife gets twice as much husband for half as much money. And vice versa” — Chi Chi Rodriguez
- “Since you are leaving, is your parking space up for grabs? I’m just curious. It is so much closer to the entrance. Can you talk to our manager about transferring that space to me? Do me a solid? That would be great. Thanks! I wish you luck! Don’t forget to bring up the parking space…”
- “Aren’t you going to be bored? Are you going to spend a lot of time in Las Vegas?”
- “Congrats on starting your next chapter. I’m so interested to see what the future holds for you. I am also interested to see if my snacks stop going missing from the break room refrigerator. I’m just saying it would be quite a coincidence.”
- “He who laughs last at the boss’s jokes probably isn’t far from retirement.”
- “Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.” — Jonathan Clements
- “Leaving so soon? We were just getting used to your weirdness. Best of luck—you’ll need it without us.”
- “We are really going to miss the humor and laughs you brought into the office. Now that you are leaving, I have been practicing my jokes. I’m ready to step in as the office comedian. Wish me luck on my new adventure.”
- “Leaving? We were just about to nominate you for ‘Employee of the Year.’ Oh well, we’ll just have to settle for ‘Most Likely to Be Missed.’
- “You have always been semi-competent. I will miss that about you.”
- “My first thought when I heard you were leaving was, ‘Wow, I am going to get so much more work done.’ Good luck on your next adventure.”
- “Super jealous you are retiring. Now you are definitely going to beat me at golf.”
- “When you retire, you switch bosses – from the one who hired you to the one who married you.”
- “Get that fishing pole ready. I don’t know what else you are going to do with all your newfound time!”
- “Retirement: when you stop lying about your age and start lying around the house.”
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” — Mark Twain
- “I would say call me and we will grab lunch, but I might be too jealous for that.”
- “Happy beginning to the end, I mean rest, of your life!”
- “Fore-get about work, it’s time for a work on your golf game. Happy retirement!”
- “Ready for weeks full of nothing but Saturdays? Ready for a Monday to become ‘Mon-Yay? Congrats.”
- “You’re finally retired, so you can finally be the ‘morning person’ you always pretended to be on Zoom… or not. Your call.”
- “Retirement is like a firmware update for your life. Everything runs smoother.”
- “Ditch the alarm clock! Retirement is the only time when ‘early to bed’ and ‘early to rise’ make no sense at all.”
Farewell for Now
Retirement cards are a great way to send your retiree off on a good note. Let them know how you sincerely feel about them, but you can also lighten the mood by making them laugh.
It is important to honor those who have contributed their time and energy to their career and the company as they depart from the office for the final time. Both cards and retirement parties are a professional courtesy and should be part of your office culture—as well as retirement gifts.
Send your departing coworkers off with a smile by writing funny wishes on their retirement card. Remember to keep it short, personal, and positive, and to express gratitude for their hard work. Add one of our funny retirement wishes or create your own and you are good to go!
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