Resignation

A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position. A resignation can occur when a person holding a position gained by election or appointment steps down, but leaving a position upon the expiration of a term is not considered resignation. When an employee chooses to leave a position, it is considered a resignation, as opposed to involuntary termination, which occurs when the employee involuntarily loses a job. Whether an employee resigned or was terminated is sometimes a topic of dispute, because in many situations, a terminated employee is eligible for severance pay and/or unemployment benefits, whereas one who voluntarily resigns may not be eligible. Abdication is the equivalent of resignation of a reigning monarch or pope, or other holder of a non-political, hereditary or similar position.

A resignation is a personal decision to exit a position, though outside pressure exists in many cases. For example, Richard Nixon resigned from the office of President of the United States in August 1974 following the Watergate scandal, when he was almost certain to have been impeached by the United States Congress.

Resignation (House)

"Resignation" is the twenty-second episode of the third season of House and the sixty-eighth episode overall.

Plot

Nineteen-year-old Addie (Lyndsy Fonseca) coughs up blood during martial arts practice and her condition soon deteriorates. House surmises that her body is "confused" and thinks she has an infection, though none can be found. He clings to the diagnosis more stubbornly than usual, and behaves oddly in other ways, too.

House meanwhile notices that Wilson is yawning and recognizes it as a symptom of antidepressant use. In an effort to get Wilson to admit to using it, House doses a coffee with amphetamine and then tricks Wilson into drinking it. Later on, we see Wilson experiencing all the effects of amphetamine as he cannot focus, cannot sit still and talks extremely fast. As he winks at a patient he is giving a breast exam to and measures his own pulse to 185 bpm, he realizes he's been dosed. He confronts House about being depressed and House demands some of his antidepressants to prove that he is not depressed. Wilson refuses to give him antidepressants and then takes some of House's Vicodin to counteract the amphetamines.

Resignation (Friedrich Schiller)

Resignation was a poem by Friedrich Schiller, published in 1786 in the journal Thalia.