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Personalised retirement toast or poem
Type the retiree's name and three details, and read the opening of their retirement toast for free.
Before you type anything
- Price: the preview (stanza 1) is free. The full poem or toast (5 stanzas), "Try another wording" and the print-ready layout cost $7, paid once through Gumroad. You receive a licence key to paste on this page.
- Verses were written by AI and are assembled in your browser from templates; no person writes or checks your poem.
- Your details stay in your browser: nothing you type is sent to us or stored. The one exception is the licence key, which is sent to this site to be verified when you press Unlock.
- The PDF is made with your browser's Print, Save as PDF.
- Refunds: through Gumroad within 30 days if the key does not unlock.
Write their retirement toast
Write each detail as a short phrase, the way it would fit after "a love of". A detail left blank is replaced by a general phrase.
Free preview: stanza 1 of 5.
Full poem (5 stanzas) and print-ready layout: $7
The key also turns on "Try another wording" and works for every occasion, form and tone on this site.
Buy the licence key on Gumroad ($7)
The licence key is not on sale yet. The free preview works in the meantime.
Example: what the full version looks like
Name used: Margaret. Details used: the allotment; the famous biscuit tin; the night the server room flooded. Form and tone: spoken toast, warm. Paragraph 1 is what the free preview shows; paragraphs 2 to 5 are what the $7 key adds.
Example with made-up details. Verses were written by AI.
A Retirement Toast to Margaret
It's hard to imagine this place without Margaret. Without the talk of the allotment, without the famous biscuit tin, it's going to feel very different on Monday.
Ask anyone here for a story and you'll hear about the night the server room flooded. It gets told again and again, and it gets a smile every time.
You always had time for a question, a problem or a chat. That open door meant more to people than you realise.
May retirement bring you good health, new adventures and plenty of time for the allotment.
Will you all raise your glass with me? To Margaret: thank you for everything, and enjoy every minute.
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When a retirement toast is used, and what the $7 unlock adds
A retirement toast is usually given at the leaving lunch or the last-day gathering, by a manager or a close colleague, just before the gift is handed over. The same text can go in the card everyone signs, or be printed and framed with a team photo. If the retiree dislikes speeches, the rhymed poem in a card is a quieter choice.
The free preview shows the opening. The $7 licence key adds stanzas 2 to 5 (in a toast, the story, the thanks, the wish and the raised glass); the "Try another wording" button, which gives a different set of lines for the same name and details; and the print layout, a clean page your browser can save as a PDF.
What to say in a retirement toast
A retirement toast thanks someone for the years they gave and wishes them well for the years ahead. Keep it to about two minutes: colleagues are usually standing, often holding a drink, and a short toast that lands is better than a long one that drifts.
What to include:
- Their name and how long you worked together.
- What they are known for at work: a habit, a saying, the thing everyone went to them for.
- One story that most of the room saw or has heard, told in two or three sentences.
- What they love outside work and will now have time for.
- A clear last line that asks everyone to raise a glass.
Keep the humour gentle. Jokes about age, about being glad to see them go or about the employer can sour quickly in a mixed room of managers, family and new starters. Praise that names something specific always works better than a list of adjectives.
For delivery, stand where the retiree can see you, speak to them for the middle part, and turn back to the room for the final line. Have the printed page in your hand even if you know it by heart.