An epic bridge burning

Written by Angela

Topics: The Daily Bullshit

I love THIS, and not because they’re quitting Google, but because it closely resembles how I quit Sears Portrait Studio eight years ago.

Unhappy with the direction Google was taking their company, Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert quit by posting a photo of themselves on Yahoo-owned Flickr with thumbs down and scowls on their faces.

When I quit Sears Portrait Studio, I took a much more intimate approach, I took pictures of myself flipping off the camera, holding signs that read, “This job sucks,” and one in which I pretended to burn a customers portraits. At the time, I wasn’t expecting anyone to see the photos but when that roll of film was sent off to be developed, a firestorm unraveled.

From what I later heard, my photos made it all the way to the VP’s desk. Yikes, I wasn’t planning that. Now, I’m banned from working at a Sears Portrait Studio for life, not that I’d want to go back there anyway. ;)

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  1. Goob says:

    Haha, that makes me wish I had a really good story about quitting a job. Instead, I just watch old episode of Seinfeld where George gains up enough courage to quit whatever craphole job (including his stint with the Yankees, of course!) he’s currently working in.

  2. Angela says:

    I had posted the pictures once but then I saw a wave of people from the Sears Portrait Studio home office viewing my site so I took them down, just in case they tried saying they had the copyright to them.

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