I’ve been racking my brain to find some employment-law-related excuse to blog about Prince Harry and his book Spare, which I have not read and do not intend to read, out of respect for his late grandmum.

Alas, hard as I've tried, I have been unable to think of a single employment-related tie-in.

Fortunately, though, the creativity of Callum Borchers of the Wall Street Journal is far superior to my own. In “When It’s Time to Pull a Prince Harry and Burn That Bridge,” Mr. Borchers analogizes what the Duke of Sussex has done in Spare to burning one's bridges on the job. (The WSJ is heavily paywalled, so the link may not work if you don't have a paid subscription.) Mr. Borchers argues that burning one’s bridges at work is sometimes a fine thing, contrary to the advice that your parents probably gave you.

According to Mr. Borchers, “[S]etting old ties ablaze can advance a career or, at least, won’t stall one.” He says that the Duke of Sussex views himself as a "whistleblower" on the Royal Family, "revealing flaws in the British monarchy and sharing the mental toll of royal life, including panic attacks and substance abuse." And, look, now he has [had a "ghost" write for him] a best seller!

But most of the column consists of anecdotes about regular people who left their jobs "on bad terms" and weren't sorry about it. They blew the whistle on sexual harassment or a toxic workplace culture on their way out the door, they accepted a job but at the last minute decided not to take...

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