Originally Posted by Anthony Butcher

How can someone resign when they then say that they didn't? If there was some misunderstanding about what Del meant, then surely his clarification of "I did not resign" should clear up the matter? In the real world someone saying that his words were misinterpreted would be the end of it.

Did anyone say "are you sure that you want to quit?" No.
Did he provide a letter of resignation? No.

As I understand it, he uttered the words "I might as well resign then" (or something very much like that) and it was jumped upon as an opportunity to remove him. Given the disgraceful way Whittaker ambushed him in that meeting by bringing in a surprise presentation attacking Del, one might even suspect that the entire thing was engineered to get rid of Del.