Innovation now extends to how people quit their jobs

There aren’t too many ways, it would seem, to quit a job. Call it what you will: to quit, resign, leave — there is still but the walking out to do. But what might be curious is the ways in which people do it. Of course, we in India can manage to make an Indianism of that as well. One is, for instance, reminded of the famed, if possibly apocryphal and presumably very angry, government servant who sent a letter to his superior officer beginning with the words “Dear Sir, I wish to resignate….” People further afield, however, might choose different forms. Which, of course, brings us to the incident that sparked these ruminations: the very viral video of the lady who quit her animation firm job by posting a video of her dancing to a song with subtitles explaining her reasons, and largely blaming her boss. The video received a staggering seven million hits on YouTube. Which, of course, makes the lady a veritable star of our times, in her own right.

Not to be outdone, the slighted boss went ahead and posted a video-riposte of his own. Presumably alluding to the cycle of life and work, he stressed the “We’re hiring” part, hinting that the lady who quit wasn’t such a great worker after all. A key point of all this tamasha, one could say, was the fact of how public most things seem to be now. Nothing’s private, it can all go online!