Resignations Not Accepted: Averted – in a manner of speaking – for the Fifth Directorate. You can resign any time you like; but the conditions of employment with the Fifth are that to resign, you get to have your memories of everything you ever did for them redacted and replaced with a plausible alternative life story (that happens to explain everything that you are on record as doing that couldn’t be otherwise… elided.).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2015/08/14/trope-a-day-resignations-not-accepted