Is it ok to mention the "R" word in my leaving email?

[MrsFogi]

I've been made redundant (pretty pissed off but that's another story). I'm going to write a good bye email to my department (they all know I've been made redundant, along with some others). I was intending to say - "As you are aware I have been made redundant" and then some nice stuff about enjoyed working at my company and would like to keep in touch, here are my contact details. Dh thinks it is aggressive and antagonistic for me to mention redundancy in the email and that I should use the word leaving or end of my employment (or similar). Any views?

If you've had your reference agreed then send it. If not don't, just in case!

Can't see any reason to include it tbh. If they all know you've been made redundant it's not like you're trying to make people aware, and why risk being considered antagonistic/bitter and twisted when you don't need to?

I'd just say, 'As you are aware, I will be leaving on x date', then say your nice stuff.

I think it's fine actually.. there's constant redundancy here and therefore lots of goodbye emails.. soem mention it some don't

I think if you go on to be nice and not sound bitter it's fine BUT I would ask why you feel the need to mention it? personally I would write "As most of you will already know, I'm leaving XXX on YYY"

Sorry to hear about your redundancy though, hope you find something soon

Oops x posts with Flowery

I don't want to mention it to be antagonistic (it hadn't occurred to me until dh raised the point) it is more that I'm not leaving (well, I am, but not through choice), I'm being made redundant so it doesn't seem right to say I'm leaving. I think that I usually call a spade a spade so I'd be avoiding the r word for my ex-employers' benefit rather than my own.
So the consensus is that it could be construed as antagonistic?

Well regardless of the reason, you are leaving. It could be construed as antagonistic mentioning the fact that the reason you are leaving is redundancy, and as everyone knows the reason you are leaving anyway, mentioning it again when it could be taken negatively seems unnecessary.

Ok, I won't mention the "r" word.