The best ever way to quit your job?
An American TV reporter quits her job live on air, swearing before walking off camera. We look at how others have resigned in style.
KTVA reporter Charlo Greene was reporting on the Alaska Cannabis Club, before declaring to viewers that she was in fact the owner of the campaign group.
Green told viewers she would be putting all her energy into the fight to legalise marijuana in the state, and would be quitting her job as a news reporter.
At the end of her segment she said: “Now everything you heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness which begins with legalising marijuana here in Alaska.
“And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but, f*** it, I quit.”
Warning: explicit language
KTVA 11 News later tweeted an apology to viewers and said Greene had been fired.
Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight. The employee has been terminated.
— KTVA 11 News (@ktva) September 22, 2014
Greene has not set up a fundraising campaign to help with the campaign. On the crowdfunding site Indiegogo she writes: “I’m Charlo Greene, the president and CEO of the Alaska Cannabis Club – Alaska’s only legal medical marijuana resource.
“I just quit my news reporting job on live TV to announce that I am redirecting all of my energy toward helping to end a failed drug policy that has ruined the lives of far too many Americans.”
Channel 4 News looks at five other ways to quit your job in style:
On a cake
Chris Holmes, a border force worker at Stansted Airport, baked a cake and wrote his resignation letter on it with icing. Bill Form, Border Force assistant director at Stansted, said: “Chris handed in the cake, along with a more formal letter. He leaves with our very best wishes.”
So, my brother-in-law has resigned from his 9-to-5 job in spectacular fashion. Jerry Maguire meets Masterchef. pic.twitter.com/4JB1gPp1kj
— stu jackson (@flackhackjack) April 16, 2013
By video game
Developer Jarrad Farbs created his own version of Super Mario which he then sent to colleagues at 2K Australia. In the game, messages such as “I QUIT!” and “Actually I resigned last week” appear as Mario jumps on mushrooms.
You can play the game yourself by clicking here.
Through interpretive dance
Marina Shifrin, 25, grew so frustrated with her job at Next Media Animation in Taiwan that she filmed herself dancing around the office at 4.30am. In the video, captions appear detailing her reasons for quitting her job.
By destabilising the government
Just days after home secretary Jacqui Smith and communities secretary Hazel Blears quit the cabinet, work and pensions secretary James Purnell wrote to prime minister Gordon Brown to say he would also be resigning.
He quit within minutes of polls closing in the 2009 local and European elections.
In his letter, he wrote: “I now believe your continued leadership makes a Conservative victory more, not less likely. I am therefore calling on you to stand aside to give our party a fighting chance of winning. As such I am resigning from government.”
Europe minister Caroline Flint quit her job a day later.
By Haiku
Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more
— Jonathan Schwartz (@OpenJonathan) February 4, 2010
Jonathan Schwartz informed the world that he had quit his job as CEO of software company Sun Microsystems by tweeting a haiku. Poor financial results and a merger with tech firm Oracle meant Schwartz was under pressure to resign.