If the time ever comes when you need to quit your job, do you have the strength to quit like these people did?
Custom Mario Game
“If we knew how to program video games, we would totally quit every job this way. We’re talking an interactive resignation letter where you have to shove various office supplies into your boss’s ass to escape a cubicle dungeon full of cankle-shoed fat women and terrifyingly greasy IT guys. We almost want to learn how to program, get a job doing it and then quit that job, just so we can resign this way. A designer working at 2K Games said goodbye with a custom Mario game that you can actually play here, complete with the star power song and ‘I QUIT!’ dancing on the screen whenever you grab a mushroom. Its quasi-respectful tone and brain-punching awesomeness aside, we can’t help but suggest that he leave it off the next portfolio he turns in to a game developer, unless he’s looking to capture the record for world’s fastest job interview. A more low-key and slightly poignant example was created by an Ubisoft programmer, depicting the company in a film noir adventure setting, except instead of guns and gin joints it’s full of a bunch of rail-thin geeks who can’t decide what they want to do with their lives. Emo noir, we suppose.
Spoiler Alert
“Two employees quit their job at the Borders, but first they recorded a video giving away the ending to the final Harry Potter book and gave it to the customers. The best part? They made most of it up.“
Star Wars Crawl
“Sometimes the best way to say ‘I’m leaving’ is by waving around a naked penis. Or by filming a video using the Star Wars crawl to describe how you would have sex with everyone in the office, and then waving around your naked penis obscured by a clown face. OK, that’s never the best way to say anything, but don’t tell that to this guy: Our big question is, why bother covering up? He’s gone this far to insult everyone, and yet chooses to censor his wang (in the creepiest way possible, we might add). Any of his intended targets still watching the video when Mr. Chuckles shows up had it coming–he flat-out announces he’s going to be naked about a minute and a half beforehand.
Linkedin Article
“About a year ago, I hired an entry-level employee who had just graduated with a creative writing degree. While working here, she wrote an article on LinkedIn titled Should I Stay or Should I Go? detailing why you should quit if going to work puts you in a dark, black mood. This was three weeks before she quit my company.”
Scorched Earth
“Roughly seven years ago, I had a sales manager that was let go and decided to leave using a scorched-earth technique. He threw a bunch of file folders against the wall, verbally trashed just about everyone on the team, and made a raucous exit as he was walked out. I’d never seen anything like it. My favorite part is that six months ago, he reached out to me via LinkedIn looking for work.”
Ice Ice Baby
“If you’re going to quit, you might as well do it in front of a bunch of people so somebody can describe you in detail to the police. Moe’s manager decided to dance to ‘Ice Ice Baby’, a song that somehow expressed his desire to pursue better employment with lyrics like, ‘the girls were hot wearing less than bikinis’, and ‘wax a chump like a candle’. It actually seems to be sort of entertaining until he rips open his shirt, at which point everyone in the dining room gets a little uncomfortable. But the best part is, he doesn’t clock out until afterward, which means he actually got paid for three minutes of poorly lip-syncing along with a bad song. Then we have Inetta ‘The Mood Setta’ Hinton, a DJ for an R&B and hip-hop station in Louisiana, who had an on-air meltdown, letting everyone know how much she hated her job. Probably because 16-year olds that sweep up popcorn and used condoms at the movie theater get paid more than she did. So she made a special announcement shitting on all her coworkers before literally declaring ‘I quit this b*tch’ and leaving the station, presumably to pursue the exciting career opportunities that await people unable to handle the demands of radio DJ-ing.“
Pharmaceuticals to YouTube
Kevin Nalty, who used to be the consumer product director for Propecia at Merck Pharmaceuticals, used American Idol and his bare chest to leave his job in order to pursue an online video career. While Big Pharmaceutical to YouTube might sound like the worst career move ever, after viewing his resignation video, we have to think the US Health care system got the best of that transaction.“
Ransom Letter
“Three years ago, an employee wrote a resignation letter that not only slammed several colleagues but was written in what looked like a ransom letter. All of the characters were different colors, fonts, and sizes. When he delivered the letter, he became extremely hostile, yelling and screaming before he walked out. I didn’t see it coming, since he was typically a happy-go-lucky individual, which made the situation even more disturbing.”
One Good Cake
“Well-liked members of the workforce tend to get a nice cake when they leave a job. Or, if you’re like W. Neil Barrett, you bring in your own cake with a letter of resignation written across the frosting. Admittedly this is pretty clever, we’re more on board with this cake, which sends a clear impossible to miss message: Well, not impossible to miss. Evidently, a guy known only as Patrick walked into a job he hated, dropped this bomb on his boss’s desk, then took his paycheck and walked out. What’s worse, his boss didn’t understand what had happened, and had to have the whole exchange explained to him later by his remaining staff.However, we feel that if you’re going to quit your job, you might as well do it sh*tfaced with a bottle of Cheez Whiz, which is exactly what this guy thought. He showed up to work at a grocery store lit to the gills at 5AM, which many of you may recognize as being way before most people are even awake. After fighting with his coworkers and shouting some slurred expletives, he grabbed a bottle of the condiment and wrote ‘I Quit’ on the storefront window, vanishing into the city like a drunken cheese-wielding Batman before the cops could show up and arrest him. We can only imagine the awkward looks exchanged when he realized he still had to come back and pick up his last paycheck.“
Live TV Everyone
“During a live TV broadcast, anchor Charlo Greene left her job to focus on marijuana legalization. She famously ended her segment on the legalization of marijuana by saying ‘f**k it, I quit.'”
Mac Alert
Nothing quite tops the unnamed techie who decided to leave behind a Mac alert explaining just how he felt about his temporary employers: What baffles us about this is how he seems to be trying to set an ultimatum for his employers to treat him better. He says himself that neither the company nor rest of the staff will be affected by his quitting, so his work couldn’t have been that great to begin with. Then he accuses his boss of being a screw up, but takes the time to leave a little box in case they want to hire him back. No boss ever in the history of anything would consider clicking on that d*mn thing. Mainly because you’d have to assume all three buttons lead to old man porn.“
Viral Content
“Tired of her employer’s oppressive work hours, viral content creator Marina Shifrin quit her job by making a video of herself grooving around her office, capped off by a dramatic dance break and a direct message: ‘I quit!‘”
Rap Beef
“Singing a toe-tapping resignation to your boss like Jonathon Schaech in That Thing You Do is the perfect mix of douche and awesome, sort of like Sean Connery slapping you in the face with his dong. Unsurprisingly, we tend to see this happening most often with musicians, who by trade have been known to sing on certain occasions. Take The Cure, who won a contest to have their music published by a German label called Hansa Records. Confronted with a bunch of dark, complex songs that would later be beloved by generations of social misfits, Hansa went into full-on marketing panic and made the logical decision to try and turn them into a boy band.That didn’t quite work out, and after recording a bunch of tracks that Hansa refuses to release to this__day, The Cure decided that they actually had a sense of humor buried beneath their tear-streaked mascara and recorded ‘Do The Hansa’, an upbeat pop song loaded with ridiculous German gibberish, on their way out the door to embrace worldwide fame. That’s fairly gentle compared to the send-off Queen gave their former manager, Norman Sheffield. In the wake of Queen’s unquestionable talent and immense mainstream appeal, Sheffield decided that he was responsible for all the success and was therefore entitled to all the money they made. Fed up with his antics, Queen decided to quit the sh*t out of him and wrote a little ditty called ‘Death on Two Legs’, in which they compare Sheffield to a leech, gloat about how successful they are and invite Sheffield to kill himself for being so terrible, an offer which he sadly didn’t take them up on. The song sounds kind of like a gangsta rap beef, only nobody got shot.“
Paula Abdul’s Twitter
“Twitter is great for getting your a** fired, but it’s also an effective method of offering up a resignation letter in 140 characters or less. Just ask Paula Abdul, who bailed on American Idol, the first televised plague in human history, via a post on her Twitter account, which in keeping with both Paula and American Idol is the most professional thing to do, ever. But hands down the best Twitter quitter is probably Heidi Lunde, who was working for a Norwegian news site where she was told that she’d be responsible for all the user-generated content coming to the site, pretty much meaning she’d have to sort her way through a huge pile of bullshit every single day to find something worth publishing. So Heidi tweeted she’d just cleaned out her desk and was ready for new challenges, which sounds pretty vague but in actuality she just meant she had moved all her things upstairs to start her new position. That’s when her boss called and asked why she resigned over Twitter without telling him first. A formal meeting was set up to discuss the incident, but her boss promptly blew it off and told Heidi that she needed to submit a formal resignation. Realizing that her job sucked and her boss was about as intelligent as a moldy pancake, she quit for real.“
Expert Writers
“If you have access to a publisher, and the attention span to write a F**k You that’s a few million characters longer than the 140 characters allowed by Twitter. Writers have been insulting people for as long as anyone has been able to read, but some are especially adept at uppercutting their resignations into the taints of their former employers. Take Ernest Hemingway. He was trapped in a contract with a man named Horace Liverwright and wanted out of it for serious artistic reasons, namely because another publisher was offering him a sh*tload more money and he resented being trapped by anything less than a fire-breathing dinosaur. So Hemingway wrote his first novel The Torrents of Spring, clocking in at under 100 pages and featuring two protagonists, one that bones a young Native American woman and runs off with her into the wilderness and another that takes mescaline and hallucinates that he’s the President of Mexico. In other words, he wrote a book that was completely unpublishable by the standards of the time. But he did it on purpose. Horace promptly released Hemingway from the contract, freeing him to pursue the more favorable publishing deal and go on to write several classics of American literature, buy a house in Key West and have sex with countless women. This he also did on purpose.“