I Quit! 8 Dramatic Ways to Leave Your Job

After pulling off the most dramatic job exit in years, Steven Slater won the hearts of disgruntled retail and customer service employees everywhere when news of his epic departure from a JetBlue plane—and his job—hit the Internet this week.

Slater, a flight attendant, lost his patience when a passenger got up from her seat early to retrieve her baggage from the overhead compartment. Slater allegedly cursed out the entire aircraft, grabbed a beer, opened the emergency chute and slid to freedom. Hey, who hasn’t wanted to take an emergency chute out the office window now and then?

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“Jenny,” a young corporate assistant, gained notoriety early this week when a series of amusing photos surfaced via Twitter, depicting her creative white-board resignation. In the photos, Jenny describes her boss’s temper, bad breath and apparent affinity for playing Farmville during work hours. The joke was on us in the end, though, as Jenny was later deemed a fake.

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