When is a resignation not a resignation? When it is only possibly a resignation. Or when it is possibly not a resignation at all.
Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon resigned. Then he wasn’t sure whether he had resigned. He had sent an email to the Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins. He hadn’t sent the requisite resignation letter to the Associate Minister of Justice. He wasn’t quite sure how to.
Or an email bounced back. Or … something. Then he seemed to be hinting that despite the resignation, or lack thereof, he might just un-resign from resigning. He might refuse to come out from behind, or possibly from under, his presumably rather impressive commissioner’s desk. It is all impossibly confusing.
A situation. In fact it pretty much is the one where George Costanza quits his job after being banned from the executive bathroom. He then realises his chances of getting another job are slender at best.
