I'm not gonna to take it. I don't have to take it. I'm not a dummy. I know how to find another job but I refuse to walk around -- people, you can say what you want to say about me and if you see me on the street I'll let you know whatever you want to know -- but I refuse. For the last six years, I made six dollars an hour. That ain't nothin'. I just got a raise after six years. I know I'm qualified and after saying this I don't care if I ever get another job in radio, period.
It does not matter to me but Inetta will not be settin' the mood at 'BLX no more. I refuse to walk around with people that'll speak to you, "Hey, Inetta, how you doin'? I will not do it to myself any more. Subscriber Account active since. While quitting in public isn't the best idea for people's longterm career prospects, these acts of defiance are certainly entertaining for the rest of us.
We collected the stories of seven people who chose to give their bosses a little something extra when they resigned, using platforms ranging from a local radio broadcast to an op-ed in the New York Times.
Chicago native Marina Shifrin was working in Taiwan as an editor for Next Media Animation, a company famous for its ridiculous cartoon spoofs of American news stories, when she decided she'd had enough of the long nights and the constant pressure to turn out more content. In a bold move, she decided to film herself in the Next Media Animation newsroom doing an interpretive dance set to Kanye West's "Gone. The video struck a chord with overworked young people everywhere, and it spread like wildfire on the internet.
In the year since it was posted, the video has collected 18 million YouTube views. JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater became a folk hero in the summer of when an unruly passenger sent him into a fury while their plane was on the tarmac of New York's JFK Airport. After the passenger refused to stay in her seat until the pilot said it was safe to get up, Slater got on the plane's public address system, dropped the F-bomb, and told passengers that after more than 20 years as a flight attendant, he'd had enough.
Slater then escaped the plane via its inflatable emergency slide and rushed home. He later pleaded guilty to criminal mischief and attempted criminal mischief , agreeing to undergo counseling and substance abuse treatment in order to avoid a prison sentence. At the Super Bowl, web hosting company GoDaddy decided to shed the raunchiness that had been pervasive in its previous ads at the big game, instead hoping to position itself as a facilitator for small business owners hoping to pursue their dreams.
And so, during a commercial break, former US Coast Guard member Gwen Dean told her boss Ted and million other Americans that she would be quitting her job as a machine engineer to focus on her small business making puppets. Dean told the Today Show the following day that her boss was supportive of her decision and actually texted her after the ad ran to say, "great commercial! In an epic on-air rant in , she trashed coworkers for gossiping about her behind her back, saying that she would be happy to find another job and didn't care if she never got another gig in radio.
It's not often people get the opportunity to quit their jobs via a public announcement in one of the nation's biggest news publications. The ex-banker's tell-all memoir was widely panned as lacking substance. A television anchor at the Russian government-funded Russia Today news channel, Liz Wahl felt she could no longer toe the party line after the country's military action in Ukraine. Noting that her Hungarian grandparents fled the Soviet Union, Wahl resigned during a live news broadcast, telling viewers she couldn't continue working for a news organization that "white-washed" the actions of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
A year and a half after he took part in a bitter struggle to unionize employees at the Renaissance Providence Hotel, Joey DeFrancesco was upset to see his shifts at the job continue to dwindle. So, in October of , DeFrancesco decided to quit his job in a way that let his boss know just how frustrated he had become.
DeFrancesco did this using a band made up of several of his friends, who marched through the hotel blasting a tuba, a bass drum, and other instruments as DeFrancesco gave his understandably perturbed manager his resignation letter.
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