- Hey boss, I just came in today to say shove it up your.
You know, I used to work a nine to five,
and I remember fantasizing about how amazing it would be
to just tell my boss to take it,
but nothing I ever came up with
can even match what these people did.
- [Man] I quit.
Hey, listen I quit.
- Here are 10 epic ways people quit their jobs.
Number 10 is sliding out.
On August 9th, 2010 after 28 years in the industry,
Steven Slater quit his job as a flight attendant
for Jet Blue Airlines in an event
The Daily Mail would come to dub
as one of the most bizarre news events of 2010.
As flight 1052 from Pittsburgh landed
at JFK International Airport in New York City,
an altercation occurred which upset Slater,
causing him to pick up the plane's public address system
and along with a string with a profanity,
announced that he'd had enough of working at an airline.
Now officially known as the Jet Blue
Flight Attendant Incident, the event concluded
with Slater grabbing two Blue Moon beers,
deploying the emergency escape door,
and sliding down the inflated evacuation slide.
Though he claimed an injury given to him by a passenger
was the real reason that he'd done it,
nobody else on the plane corroborated his story.
Still, that's an awesome way to quit.
Okay, I got my Blue Moon, bye!
Number nine is the big game announcement.
Quitting in front of your friends and coworkers
is one thing, but quitting in front
of 100 million people is quite another.
That's just what 36 year old Gwen Dean did
on February 2nd, 2014 when she verbally announced
her resignation to her boss Ted
during what stands as the second most watched
television broadcast in American history.
Gwen was a machine engineer in New York for nearly 18 years,
but always had dreams of starting her own puppetry business.
Teaming up with the online hosting company GoDaddy.com,
she decided to pursue her dream full-time,
appearing in a commercial for the company
alongside an actor during Super Bowl 48.
100 million viewers saw Gwen with help
from a blue bird puppet tell the camera
and specifically Ted, "I quit."
Ted responded with a happy text saying he was laughing
and that it was a great commercial.
Call it a happy ending.
Number eight is a mass exit.
On September 10th, 2014, a number of hungry customers
trying to enter a Chipotle restaurant
in State College, Pennsylvania were left
with empty stomachs when they found a door locked.
A sign on the door revealed that after being forced
to work in borderline sweatshop conditions,
most of the managers and crew had resigned.
The note went on to state that people
are greater than profits and encouraged diners
to spread the word via social media.
The former manager responsible for the sign being posted
was Brian Healy, who claims that four shift managers
at the Chipotle had quit over the previous two days.
Brian and another employee decided
that they were just done with the company
and moments later, locked the door and posted the sign.
Saving face, Chipotle announced the store had reopened
and the incident had locked out many employees
who were eager to work.
Yeah, you be the judge on that one.
Number seven is Doo-Op I Quit.
When he realized his job as a barista
at a trendy cafe was unfulfilling,
Phil Sipka called on television host Steve Harvey
to help him quit so that he could start his own coffee shop.
Sipka had worked at the Robust Coffee Lounge
in Chicago, Illinois for three years,
and though he respected his bosses Derek and Jake,
he felt the only way to leave would be a big way.
So, backed by five smooth background singers,
he sang his resignation, revealing his intentions
to his two supervisors, the crowd inside the cafe,
and a huge number of viewers watching him
on The Steve Harvey Show and on YouTube.
Controversy surrounded the video
of the doo wop performance resignation,
with many claiming it was fake.
In response, a producer for The Steve Harvey Show
came clean about a few things,
revealing that the owners did know
Sipka was quitting with Harvey's help,
but had no idea how he was going to do it.
That's risky.
He could've just pooped on the floor.
Sorry, that's, that's how I would've did it.
Number six is Super Mario quitting.
On April 27th, 2009 after deciding to leave his position
as Senior Programmer at 2K Australia,
which is a video game development company,
Jerrad Woods, who was known as Jared Farbs,
chose to quit with style and spent the night
creating a game to make his leaving more fun.
The next day, Farbs sent the game to his bosses
and coworkers, who seemed to take the news in stride,
considering the nostalgia and humor
it brought with the sad message.
During the game, which you can actually play right now
and seems to be an exact copy of one of the levels
from 1985's Super Mario Bros, every time points are earned,
the words, "I quit," flash on the screen.
At the end of the level, a message appears and reads,
"Thank you, 2K Australia.
"You gave me a paycheck and an incredible project
"and a world class team to learn from,
"but my business is in another castle."
That's brilliant.
Farbs went on to pursue a career in independent game design.
Number five is dancing goodbye.
On September 28th, 2013, 25 year old Marina Shifrin
posted a video to her YouTube channel,
which she titled An Interpretive Dance for My Boss
set to Kanye West's, "Gone".
Though the dancing she does in the piece
comes off as funny and charming,
the story that the subtitles included in the video tell
is less than a happy one.
It turns out Shifrin was very upset at her job
as a video producer for Next Media's animation studio.
She claims to have sacrificed two years of her life,
putting off relationships and investing
all of her time and energy for a boss more obsessed
with how many videos were made and how many views they got
rather than caring about his staff.
So, while at work at 4:30 in the morning,
Shifrin recorded the video and added the words,
"I quit," several times after telling her story
and promptly posted it, leaving her job forever.
The video went viral but was soon taken down
for copyrighted music.
See now, if I was the music owner,
I would've just left it up.
I'd be like, "That's funny, that's funny.
"That's just, I'm Kanye.
"That's how I would've acted, leave it up."
Number four is signed out.
Here's some free advice for all the employers out there.
Um, if you treat your employees rudely or unfairly,
maybe don't give them the important job
of updating your advertisements, especially if the business
you're making them work for is in fast food.
After allegedly working 22 days straight
and with more shifts on the way,
Adam, a man who worked as a shift manager
at a Taco Bell KFC combo restaurant in Depew, New York,
requested that he be off on the fourth of July
to celebrate America's birthday.
In response, his boss denied his time off,
which was understandably upsetting.
Shortly after that, Adam was tasked
with changing the Taco Bell sign out front,
but instead of a catchy phrase or putting up the deals,
Adam chose this opportunity to tell everyone
who could read it that, um, he quit,
adding the additional, "F you," followed by a happy face.
Yeah, I definitely think that emoji
was just, nice touch, beautiful.
Number three is a goodbye cake.
Tired of looking at passports all day,
border agent employee Chris Holmes decided he wanted,
well, a sweeter gig than what his job currently was
at the Stansted Airport in Essex, UK.
Holmes' love for baking had allowed him to open
his own business, granting him a popular title
amongst friends and customers as Mr. Cake.
Then, on April 15th, 2013 on his 31st birthday,
Holmes made the decision to leave his job at the airport
and focus on his growing family, the new cake business,
which was where he was more happy.
Of course, there was only one way for Mr. Cake
to resign from his post, and that very day,
instead of getting a cake from his peers,
he brought in, well, one of his own,
and on it written in icing was his resignation letter.
Yep, Chris Holmes went into work and told his duty manager
that he was leaving to be a happier man,
using the very thing that made him happy.
That's beautiful.
You go, Chris.
Number two is weeded out.
On September 22nd, 2014, 26-year-old Charlene Egbe,
better known as Charlo Greene,
publicly quit her job while on air.
Viewers of the CBS affiliate Alaskan television station
KTVA's nightly news program, along with the station's
anchors and crew, were stunned when Greene
suddenly announced that she was resigning.
The reporter was doing a story on Alaska Cannabis Club,
an organization that advocated for marijuana legalization
and aided citizens in the state who were trying
to obtain legal pot for recreational use.
And as the story concluded, Greene announced
that she was actually the owner of the club and would
from then on be focused on it fully and not this job.
She then calmly said, "F it, I quit,"
and casually walked off camera,
leaving a shocked co-anchor to shuffle papers
as she struggled to find words.
I hope the weed business goes well,
because I don't think Greene's got a future in news.
And number one is marching out.
In August of 2011, 23 year old Joey DeFrancesco
was making a living working in room service
at the Renaissance Providence Hotel
in Providence, Rhode Island, a job that he despised.
A recent graduate with a history degree,
DeFranco decided it was time to change it up
and did what so many of us will never have the guts to do.
He quit his job with such energy and happiness,
you could hear trumpets playing, literally.
DeFrancesco was a trumpet player
in the What Cheer Brigade, a 19 piece brass band,
most of which joined him for his resignation.
As his boss walked out and demanded
that they leave the building, Joey announced,
"I'm here to tell you that I'm quitting,"
and dropped his resignation letter at the man's feet.
Then the band began playing a loud cheerful song
while DeFrancesco triumphantly left the building
with his hands high in the air,
with the band following single file still playing.
Now, that is a goodbye.
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