If you’re going to quit your job, this is the way to do it

http://www.conceptcupboard.com/blog/2013/10/if-youre-going-to-quit-your-job-this-is-the-way-to-do-it/

by AdamJBall • 13 years ago

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jpswade• 13 years ago

More like a simple way to narrow down your future job prospects.

UK-AL3• 13 years ago

Or a future viral media consultant...

kgarten• 13 years ago

sorry for the meta discussion: really wondering about the quality of the hacker news front page posts recently. Yesterday, there was a spam post about a fictitious iOS Hackathon from Google. Today this ... It's not even news, already old, and a very stupid way to quit your job ... It's pure self-promotion (I would not hire her for any job, if I saw the video ... ok,ok working for academia).

smtddr2• 13 years ago

She dances a lot better than I'd expect and this is a good video. But don't do this. Just state the reason you're leaving in the most non-insulting way you can. In the world of the never-forgetting interwebz, these things can come back to haunt you at the worse & most unexpected times; you won't even believe it. When it happens, you'll feel like the whole world is against you because it'll happen in a way that seems entirely improbable; the chain of events that leads you to the consequences will make you feel like you're in a book and the author wants your character to suffer. You'll be thinking "How the ?@$&!# did they find out about that?" as you watch some amazing opportunity slip right through your fingers. If you didn't believe in karma before, you'll start to wonder afterwards.

EDIT: http://gawker.com/next-media-animation-responds-to-the-quit-...

After reading the NWA-exec's comments, now I'm pretty sure this was a mistake on her part.

UK-AL3• 13 years ago

That's not karama though. That's bad things on top of bad things.

Quiting your job like this, because they treated you badly is not a morally bad thing. So what is there to correct?

Real karma would be something bad happening the employer, because they treated her badly.

smtddr2• 13 years ago

Real karma would be something bad happening the employer

I think she did something bad to the employer by making this video public. I now have the impression of an employee who was just a bad fit, but didn't realize it and ended up taking it out on the employer who had to defend himself on Gawker.

probably_wrong• 13 years ago

I'll be the first to point out the obvious: if I refuse to hire her based on this video, she clearly doesn't want to work with me either way.

kfk• 13 years ago

I thought I would read some ideas to plan your way out, but I get this. What to say? The fact that you hated/hate your job is a very bad signal for new potential employers and, in general, people around you. If you do change or want to change your job, do find a good story and stay away from pure complaining.

waterlion• 13 years ago

If you're going to provide zero value-add to other people's content on YouTube, this is the way to do it.

rvijapurapu• 13 years ago

This is the companies response - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ukGrwL4ky4

ars2• 13 years ago

There is no way this is real (the quitting video).

This is viral marketing for the video company.

viraptor• 13 years ago

And this is impressive. No "we're not that bad". No trying to take down the original with DCMA / whatever unsuitable method. Just riding the popularity and advertising on their own. I wish this way was a more frequent for companies to react to things...

ars2• 13 years ago

Is this real?

If it's is, it's pretty stupid - I'd never hire her for anything that entails responsibility after seeing this.

Perseids• 13 years ago

Why? Given the company's graceful response she has probably done them a huge favour with all the extra publicity.

If it is, it's pretty stupid - I'd never hire her for anything that entails responsibility after seeing this.

To be honest, I hate this attitude. Therein lies the expectation that my whole life and every public statement has to be optimized for my next job. And as so many people now live huge parts of their life on the internet, for them it is only natural to talk about their work life publicly. If you don't complain about being praised by a happy employee publicly then you should not get the right to complain a about honest criticism online (and she even praised them in the same video).

lotsofcows• 13 years ago

It funny, professional (she names no names), relevant to her job and a great way of letting people know she's available.

I'd hire her.

I wouldn't work for you.

lukaszdk• 13 years ago

Looks like she got a new job on a TV show called "The Queen Latifah Show"

https://twitter.com/MARINAvsTweets/status/385622403201515522

aaron695• 13 years ago

I never get the, even if you're treated badly by the company your should suck up to them upon leaving thing.

I guess to me minimising the need for employment (ie not living beyond my means) is more important than letting people treat you badly.

But each to their own, but I don't get why some people don't get that some of us don't want to be tied to the system even when it gets crappy.

DanBC• 13 years ago

Future employers don't care how your previous employers treated you. They care how you react to bad situations. If you react with grace you're a better bet than if you burn your bridges.

UK-AL3• 13 years ago

Yet if it was the other way around, companies would react quite strongly.

agalaria• 13 years ago

This is really a cool way to quit your job...:-)

If you’re going to quit your job, this is the way to do it

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